Baltic Copper Mine Cricket Club, Michigan, USA

Baltic Cricket Team - comprising of miners from Painesdale, Michigan, USA - played in the Copper (Houghton) County Cricket League, founded in 1906. The teams were made up of local miners, formerly Cornish tin miners, who moved to the Michigan area as the Cornish mines were closing. Each separate mine had its own side. The Baltic Mine first begun its life in 1897, spending two decades as an independent mine before being absorbed by Copper Range in 1917 - see also: 10642849

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