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-====== September 2, 1902 ====== +{{page>1902_news#september 2, 1902}}
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-===== News ===== +
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-• 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 +
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-• 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 +
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-• 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 +
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-• They played a game in Detroit anyway, beating the [[Tigers]], 5-1 +
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-• 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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-| [[september-1-1902|< Sep 1, 1902]]  |  [[1902 calendar|Back to Calendar]]  |  [[september-3-1902|Sep 3, 1902 >]] | +
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