Early baseball in Michigan/Club 30

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Location Michigan
Year 1866
Modern address Ionia MI
City Ionia
State MI
Country US
Nickname Ionia BBC
Found by Peter Morris

The Ionia BBC is the first club listed in Ionia County in Peter Morris' Baseball Fever (2003). Also listed are the Wolverine Club of Ionia, Custer Club of Ionia, Defiance Club of Saranac, Lyons BBC, and Otisco Club of Cooks Corner.

Ionia MI (current pop. about 11,400) is about 125 miles NW of Detroit and 35 miles NW of Lansing. Wikipedia adds: "Every late July . . . it hosts what may be the world's largest free-admission fair."

Sources

Peter Morris, Baseball Fever: Early Baseball in Michigan (U of Michigan Press, 2003), page 367.

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