====== September 2, 1902 ======

===== News =====

•	Around 4:30 in the morning, as the Athletics were aboard a train near Peru, Indiana, en route to Detroit from St Louis, when their train collided with a freight train coming the other way

•	Fortunately, neither train was traveling at full speed at the time of impact, though one of the engines of the A's train derailed into a ditch

•	No players were injured, though they were delayed several hours waiting for another train to take them to Detroit, where they arrived seven hours later than expected

•	They played a game in Detroit anyway, beating the [[Tigers]], 5-1

•	The [[Twins|Senators]], who were on their way to St Louis, also were held up by the wreck and were forced to postpone that day's game

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