====== June 8, 1901 ======

===== News =====

•	Athletics starter [[Eddie Plank]] hurled a four-hitter to beat the [[Tigers]], 6-1, at Columbia Park

•	First the first time, the A’s played on a grass outfield in their home park

•	Prior to this, the outfield had just been raked dirt as rainy spring weather had prevented the laying of sod before the season started

===== Today's Game =====

|**June 8, 1901**|||||||||||||| |
|Detroit Tigers (22-15) at Philadelphia Athletics (16-19)|||||||||||||| |
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| |  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  | |  R  |  H  |  E  | |
|DET|  0  |  0  |  0  |  0  |  0  |  0  |  1  |  0  |  0  |  -  |  1  |  4  |  3  | |
|PHL|  2  |  0  |  0  |  0  |  0  |  0  |  3  |  1  |  x  |  -  |  6  |  7  |  1  | |
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|Ballpark|Columbia Park||||||||||||| |
|City|Philadelphia, Pennsylvania||||||||||||| |
|Attendance|10500||||||||||||| |
|Managers|George Stallings (DET), Connie Mack (PHL)||||||||||||| |
|Starting pitchers|Joe Yeager (DET), Eddie Plank (PHL)||||||||||||| |


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