• A story appeared in the Boston American and was repeated in the Examiner that head coach Eddie Erdelatz had agreed to coach the New York Giants in 1961

• The Tribune reported Erdelatz's denial of the story saying, “It just is not true that I'm contemplating a change of jobs”

• Erdelatz did acknowledge having visited members of the Mara family, the owners of the Giants franchise, but said they were old friends, and the coaching job never came up

• Despite a statement a few days ago from general manager and team partner Chet Soda, the team was still pursuing the possibility of playing their remaining home games this year and all of next year's games on the Pacific High School field in San Leandro

• The city's board of education had unanimously approved the measure

• At the same time, Soda publicly announced that if the team didn't get an East Bay stadium they would have to consider relocating

• Seattle was one of the places mentioned, but Soda said that all talk was “just ideas, so far” and that no action had been taken

• He also said the team was looking into finishing out the 1960 season at Candlestick Park

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