====== June 18, 1901 ====== ===== News ===== • [[Guardians|Cleveland]]'s Erve Beck hit a three-run homer in the third and Athletics starter [[Eddie Plank]] had an uncharacteristically awful game in a 9-5 loss at Columbia Park • American League president Ban Johnson persuaded [[Yankees|Orioles]] president Sydney Frank to accept Johnson's ruling regarding infielder Hughie Jennings • Orioles team officials then said they would try to make a deal with the A's directly for the coveted player • Jennings, for his part, said he would be happy to play in either Philadelphia or Baltimore ===== Today's Game ===== |**June 18, 1901**|||||||||||||| | |Cleveland (14-27) at Philadelphia Athletics (20-22)|||||||||||||| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | | R | H | E | | |CLE| 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 9 | 14 | 4 | | |PHL| 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | - | 5 | 5 | 4 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |Ballpark|Columbia Park||||||||||||| | |City|Philadelphia, Pennsylvania||||||||||||| | |Attendance|3,185||||||||||||| | |Managers|Jimmy McAleer (CLE), Nap Lajoie (PHL)||||||||||||| | |Starting pitchers|Pete Dowling (CLE), Eddie Plank (PHL)||||||||||||| | ---- [[june-17-1901|< Jun 17, 1901]] [[1901 calendar|Back to Calendar]] [[june-19-1901|Jun 19, 1901 >]]