Early baseball in Michigan/Club 54
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| Location | Michigan |
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| Year | 1859 |
| Modern address | Ypsilanti MI |
| City | Ypsilanti |
| State | MI |
| Country | US |
| Nickname | Ypsilanti BBC |
| Found by | Peter Morris |
The Ypsilanti BBC is listed as the first club in Washtwnaw County MI in Peter Morris' Basebal Fever (2003).
Ypsilanti MI (current pop. about 19,400) is about 30 miles W of Detroit and about 8 miles SE of Ann Arbor MI.
Sources
Peter Morris, Baseball Fever: Early Baseball in Michigan (U of Michigan Press, 2003), page 367.
