Early baseball in Michigan/Club 23

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Location Michigan
Year 1870
Modern address Escanaba MI
City Escanaba
State MI
Country US
Nickname Escanaba BBC
Found by Peter Morris

The Escanaba BBC was the first mentioned for Delta County in Peter Morris' Baseball Fever (2003).

Escanaba MI (current pop. about 13,000) is on Lake Michigan in the southern ("banana belt" area of MI's Upper Peninsula and about 110 miles NE of Green Bay WI.

Sources

Peter Morris, Baseball Fever: Early Baseball in Michigan (U of Michigan Press, 2003), page 366.

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