• Closing out the 1902 season, the Athletics dropped both ends of a double header to Washington at Columbia Park

• Right-hander Tad Quinn made his major league debut, pitching the first game for the A's and losing 9-4

• Philadelphia-born Tom Walker made his major league debut in the afternoon game, pitching for the A's and losing 7-5

• Dave Fultz left the team before the day's games to assume football coaching duties at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, and Harry Davis sat out the game just to rest

• Rube Waddell was absent from the team as well, having “gone fishing” according to the Inquirer

• The A's finished with an 83-53 record, five games ahead of the second place St Louis Browns