Early baseball in Michigan/Club 19
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| Location | Michigan |
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| Year | 1866 |
| Modern address | Coldwater MI |
| City | Coldwater |
| State | MI |
| Country | US |
| Nickname | Coldwater BBC; Coldwater College Nine |
| Found by | Peter Morris |
The first club found in Branch County MI in Peter Morris' Baseball Fever is the Coldwater BBC. Coldwater MI (current pop. about 11,000) is about 115 miles W of Detroit near the IN border and about 60 miles N of Fort Wayne IN. We are uncertain as to what college plaayed in Coldwater.
Sources
Peter Morris, Baseball Fever: Early Baseball in Michigan (U of Michigan Press, 2003), page 366.
