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january-23-1901

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.

2025/04/03 13:31 · ehaight
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