Early baseball in Michigan/Club 27

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Location	Michigan
Year	1860
Modern address	Reading MI
City	Reading
State	MI
Country	US
Nickname	Reading BBC; Hillsdale BBC
Found by	Peter Morris

The Reading BBC is the first mentioned for Hillsdale County in Peter Morris' Baseball Fever (2003).

Reading MI (current pop. about 1,100) is on the Ohio border and is about 100 miles SW of Detroit and about 65 miles W of Toledo OH.

Sources

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