Early baseball in Michigan/Club 15
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Location | Michigan |
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Year | 1869 |
Modern address | Alpena MI |
City | Alpena |
State | MI |
Country | US |
Nickname | Alpena BBC |
Found by | Peter Morris |
The Alpena BBC was the first club in Alpena County MI. Alpena MI (current pop about 10,500) is in northeastern MI, about 225 miles N of Detroit.
Sources
Peter Morris, Baseball Fever: Early Baseball in Michigan (U of Michigan Press, 2003), page 366.