“Rogers Is Joyous over New Club in Niles' Hand,” 12 Phillies owner John Rogers happy about the new American Association playing in his ballpark when his team wasn't at home, since that would mean that the American League team would never have the city to itself on game day. But not only was the Association subservient to the National League, it would never get off the ground. —- |< Jan 19, 1901 | Back to Calendar | Jan 21, 1901 >| ======January 21, 1901====== =====In Print===== ====Philadelphia Inquirer==== “The Old Sport's Musings,” 6 Wherein the Inquirer sports editor cheers Ban Johnson on for taking on the money-grubbing, game-destroying magnates of the National League. —- |< Jan 20, 1901 | Back to Calendar | Jan 23, 1901 >| ======January 22, 1901====== ======January 23, 1901====== =====In Print===== ====Philadelphia Inquirer==== “American League Leases Its Ground,” 5

The local team, in the person of Connie Mack, signed a ten-year lease on a plot bounded by 29th and 30th streets and Columbia Avenue and Oxford Street. The construction contract went to local contractor James Foster. The expected capacity of the grandstand, or “pavilion”, was 4,000. Team was to be called the “Athletics.”

“Johnson Maps Out Plans for Stands at Boston,” 5 Included note about the Philadelphia lease. |< Jan 21, 1901 | Back to Calendar | Jan 24, 1901 >| ======January 24, 1901====== =====In Print===== “Connie Mack,” photo, 6 Mack expected to do good work in Philadelphia. “Sharsig Engaged by Mack,” 6 Billy Sharsig hired as business manager on 22nd. “Baseball Notes,” 6 Billy Sharsig cheer. Athletics field oriented same direction as Phillies ballpark. ======January 25, 1901====== ======January 26, 1901====== —- ======January 27, 1901====== =====In Print===== ====Philadelphia Inquirer==== “American League Has Signed All Players Needed,” p14 Connie Mack had “secured several good men,” but he wasn't saying who. According to the story, the names would be made public February 2. |< Jan 22, 1901 | Back to Calendar | Jan 28, 1901 >| ======January 28, 1901====== =====In Print===== =====Philadelphia Inquirer===== “National League Is Proved to Be Responsible for the Failure to Avert a Clash with the American,” 6 In Ban Johnson's manifesto of National League sins issued at the American League meetings in Chicago, he mentioned that Connie Mack, among other league managers, were financially invested in the new operation. Mack was the sole Philadelphia representative in attendance. National Wants to Fight American at All Corners,“ 6 Arthur Irwin, a representative of the Boston franchise in the nascent, and soon to be moribund, American Association, said the American League was “worse off than ever” after putting a franchise in Philadelphia. —- |< Jan 26, 1901 | Back to Calendar | Jan 29, 1901 >| ======January 29, 1901====== =====In Print===== ====Philadelphia Inquirer==== “American League Born; Has Earmarks of a Long Liver,” 5 Well, they weren't wrong there. The story reported the official creation of the American League yesterday in Chicago, including a franchise in Philadelphia. Connie Mack, along with John McGraw and Charles Comiskey, were appointed to the league's rules committee. —- |< Jan 28, 1901 | Back to Calendar | Feb 6, 1901 >| ======January 30, 1901====== =====In Print===== ====Philadelphia Inquirer==== “American League Will Treat Players as Men, Not Slaves,” 5

The American League meeting in Chicago adjourned yesterday and Connie Mack was heading back to Philadelphia. The story also noted an unattributed statement that Pittsburgh money had been invested in the team, but didn't identify the source.