====== February 17, 1901 ======

===== News =====

•	The effort to find out who was bankrolling the Athletics franchise turned up the name of Cleveland owner Charles Somers on the ballpark grounds lease and the grandstand construction contract

•	Rumor said Somers owned a piece of the Boston team, too, and the news reinforced jibes that the American League was guilty of "syndicalism"

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