Early baseball in Michigan/Club 17

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Location Michigan
Year 1865
Modern address Portsmouth Township MI
City Portsmouth
State MI
Country US
Nickname Chippawa Club: Washington Club of Bay City

The Chippewa Club of Portsmouth is the first club listed for Bay County in Peter Morris' "Baseball Fever." Portsmouth MI listed as a township in Bay County, which has a current pop. of about 107,000. Portsmouth Twp is about 100 miles NW of Detroit and 15 miles NE of Saginaw MI.

Sources

Peter Morris, Baseball Fever: Early Baseball in Michigan (U of Michigan Press, 2003), page 366.

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