Early baseball in Michigan/Club 45
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| Location | Michigan |
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| Year | 1868 |
| Modern address | Ontonagon MI |
| City | Ontonagon |
| State | MI |
| Country | US |
| Nickname | Ontonagon BBC |
| Found by | Peter Morris |
The Ontonagon BBC is listed first in Ontonagon County MI in Peter Morris' Baseball Fever (2003).
The village of Ontonagon MI (current pop. about 1770) is in the western part of the Upper Peninsula and is about 200 miles N of Green Bay WI on Lake Superior.
Planning a trip? Wikipedia: "Ontonagon is located on the far western edge of the legally designated Eastern Time Zone as determined by the United States Department of Transportation. In the summer the sun sets over Lake Superior at 10pm local time with dusk lasting until almost 11pm. By contrast in the winter the sun does not rise until just before 9am and it is still pitch black at 8am."
Sources
Peter Morris, Baseball Fever: Early Baseball in Michigan (U of Michigan Press, 2003), page 367.
