Early baseball in Michigan/Club 30
From SABR Encyclopedia
| SABR Origins Committee project on the |
Spread of baseball |
|---|
 |
| Key pages |
| Project home page Project map History of early baseball Research needs in the spread of baseball |
| Lists |
| Earliest games by state Earliest clubs by state All games ยท All clubs Predecessor games Other firsts in baseball |
| Help |
| Researching early baseball Submitting research online |
| Spread of baseball: Home -> Michigan -> Early baseball in Michigan/Club 30 |
| Location | Michigan |
|---|---|
| Year | 1866 |
| Modern address | Ionia MI |
| City | Ionia |
| State | MI |
| Country | US |
| Nickname | Ionia BBC |
| Found by | Peter Morris |
The Ionia BBC is the first club listed in Ionia County in Peter Morris' Baseball Fever (2003). Also listed are the Wolverine Club of Ionia, Custer Club of Ionia, Defiance Club of Saranac, Lyons BBC, and Otisco Club of Cooks Corner.
Ionia MI (current pop. about 11,400) is about 125 miles NW of Detroit and 35 miles NW of Lansing. Wikipedia adds: "Every late July . . . it hosts what may be the world's largest free-admission fair."
Sources
Peter Morris, Baseball Fever: Early Baseball in Michigan (U of Michigan Press, 2003), page 367.
