Early baseball in Michigan/Club 25
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| Location | Michigan |
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| Year | 1866 |
| Modern address | Flint MI |
| City | Flint |
| State | MI |
| Country | US |
| Nickname | Wolverine Club of Flint |
| Found by | Peter Morris |
The Wolverine Club of Flint is the first Genesee County club listed in Peter Morris' Baseball Fever (2003).
Other clubs mentioned at the Ogema Club and the Genesee Club, both of Flint MI.
Flint MI (1860 pop. about 3,000; 1870 pop. about 5,400) is about 60 miles NW of Detroit.
Sources
Peter Morris, Baseball Fever: Early Baseball in Michigan (U of Michigan Press, 2003), page 366.
