Early baseball in Michigan/Club 27
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Location | Michigan |
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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.