Early baseball in Michigan/Club 31
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| Location | Michigan |
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| Year | 1860 |
| Modern address | Jackson MI |
| City | Jackson |
| State | MI |
| Country | US |
| Nickname | Daybreak Club of Jackson |
| Found by | Peter Morris |
The Daybreak Club of Jackson is the first club listed in Jackson County MI in Peter Morris' Baseball Fever (2003).
Jackson MI (1860 pop. 5,000) is is about 70 miles W of Detroit and about 35 miles W of Ann Arbor MI.
Sources
Peter Morris, Baseball Fever: Early Baseball in Michigan (U of Michigan Press, 2003), page 367.
