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-====== January 22, 1901 ======
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-===== News =====
-•	The team announced they would continue a local tradition and call themselves the Athletics
-•	The team also announced they had signed a ten-year lease on the grounds at 29th and Columbia for the construction of a ballpark
-•	The site was bounded by 29th Street on the east, 30th Street on the west, Columbia Street on the north, and Oxford Street on the south and enclosed a space 400 feet by 460 feet
-•	The grandstand would be built by a firm headed by James Foster at an estimated cost of $35,000
-•	Total capacity would be 12,000, with 4,000 in a single-tier grandstand behind the plate, and the remaining 8,000 to be divided between two sets of bleachers down each foul line
-•	A separate one-story building was to be built for locker rooms and the completion of all structures was scheduled for April 1
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