Early baseball in Michigan/Club 26
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| Location | Michigan |
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| Year | 1867 |
| Modern address | Ithaca MI |
| City | Ithaca |
| State | MI |
| Country | US |
| Nickname | Sheridan Club of Ithaca; St. Louis BBC |
| Found by | Peter Morris |
The Sheridan Club of Ithaca MI is the first listed for Gratiot County in Peter Morris' Baseball Fever (2003).
Ithaca MI (pop. about 3,100) is in central Michigan, about 125 miles NW of Detroit and about 40 miles N of Lansing.
Sources
Peter Morris, Baseball Fever: Early Baseball in Michigan (U of Michigan Press, 2003), page 366.
