Early baseball in Michigan/Club 17
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| Location | Michigan |
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| 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.
