====== May 8, 1901 ======

===== News =====

•	In their first road game of the season, the Athletics fell to [[Red Sox|Boston]], 12-4, at the Huntington Avenue Grounds in Boston

•	Boston led 11-0 after five innings

•	The //Boston Globe// reported of a “new feature in baseball...the megaphone man, who announced the change of 
players and other interesting facts the crowd were anxious to learn”

===== Today's Game =====

|**May 8, 1901**|||||||||||||| |
|Philadelphia Athletics (4-6) at Boston (AL) (5-5)|||||||||||||| |
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| |  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  | |  R  |  H  |  E  | |
|PHL|  0  |  0  |  0  |  0  |  0  |  0  |  1  |  3  |  0  |  -  |  4  |  11  |  3  | |
|BOS|  4  |  1  |  1  |  3  |  2  |  0  |  1  |  0  |  x  |  -  |  12  |  19  |  5  | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
|Ballpark|Huntington Avenue Grounds||||||||||||| |
|City|Boston, Massachusetts||||||||||||| |
|Attendance|11,000||||||||||||| |
|Managers|Connie Mack (PHL), Jimmy Collins (BOS)||||||||||||| |
|Starting pitchers|Bill Bernhard (PHL), Cy Young (BOS)||||||||||||| |


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