• 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

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