Early baseball in Michigan/Club 28
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| Location | Michigan |
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| Year | 1868 |
| Modern address | Houghton MI |
| City | Houghton |
| State | MI |
| Country | US |
| Nickname | Independent Club of Houghton |
| Found by | Peter Morris |
The Independent Club of Houghton is the first club listed in Houghton County MI in Peter Morris' Baseball Fever (2003).
Houghton MI (current pop. about 7,700) is in copper belt in the north part of Upper Peninsula and about 200 miles E of Duluth MN.
Sources
Peter Morris, Baseball Fever: Early Baseball in Michigan (U of Michigan Press, 2003), page 367
