Early baseball in Michigan/Club 21
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| Location | Michigan |
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| Year | 1861 |
| Modern address | Dowagiac MI |
| City | Dowagiac |
| State | MI |
| Country | US |
| Nickname | Dowagiac BBC |
| Found by | Peter Morris |
The Dowagiac Base Ball Club is the first club listed in Cass County in Peter Morris' Baseball Fever. Dowagiac (current pop. about 6200) in Michigan's SW corner and is about 165 miles W of Detroit and about 254 miles SW of South Bend IN.
Sources
Peter Morris, Baseball Fever: Early Baseball in Michigan (U of Michigan Press, 2003), page 366.
