My Dad surprised my brother and I with WS tickets to ALL THREE games at Shea .. I felt like I won the Lottery !!!!! I was the MAN in my grammar school.......:) 'Never forget those cold October....Shea nights ..must have been 40 degrees and there goes Rusty Staub out in RF with no Longsleeve undershirt .... We had COATS on !!! He was in short sleeves. What a TREAT to see MAYS and Reggie Jackson on the same field! Seaver and Garrett, Milner and Koosman and Cleon Jones, McGraw....The games were Great ...series could have gone either way..Thank You DAD !!!!!!!!
We’re almost the same age, although I remember the ‘68 series when I was 6 because I was living in Detroit. That A’s team was awesome in the early 70’s.
Yes and lost both times for different New York teams (Giants, Mets) losing to repeat champions (Yankees, A's). Also, Mays was available to pinch hit in the 9th inning of game 7. With 2 outs and in possibly the last at bat of his career, with 2 runners on base and NY down 5-2, Mays was ready to pinch hit. With a left hander Darold Knowles pitching, Yogi Berra let lefty hitting Wayne Garrett bat instead of pinch hitting Mays. Garrett popped out to shortstop. Mays and Berra had feuded and Yogi left him on the bench. Had Mays come up as the tying run with 2 out in the 9th inning of game 7, it would have been one of the most dramatic at bats in baseball history.
@@cortr9310 you remember that, thank you, I was screaming to let Mays hit, I was 11 but always a big Mays fan and almost wrote a letter to berra asking why he didn't let Mays bat, his fielding was shot but he'd been hitting ok, -still mad, but glad someone else recognized that moment
@@cortr9310 That's a fascinating piece of (almost) baseball history. Too bad Berra didn't let Mays hit. Just imagine if he had homered and sent the game into extras......
@@douglaslowe5 When Nolan Ryan pitched, the ball landed in the catcher's mitt and the ball sort of groaned, like it got the wind knocked out of it. That's my recollection.
@@howie9751 Donald Grant was a racist. Cleon Jones was found to have been with a white woman and he made him apologize in a press conference or to the media.
A decent hitter for a catcher during that time. As kids, watching him on TV, once a month or so he'd get hit by a foul-tip right to the groin, and would fall to the ground all scrunched up on his back, and we'd be laughing. Hey, we were kids. We loved him too, but it would look so funny.
He was a better hitter than some people think. He was pretty clutch. He hit over .300 during that stretch run of August and September in '73, and he had a career high .295 in 1975.
The Mets, today, still wear those old time uniforms, even if they made them more bold with names on the back of them. They've gone around in circles, after many uniform changes over the years.
My Met fan dad cried about this for years. If only Felix had grabbed that grounder. But the A's had the better mix of batting and pitching. Gotta tip the hat.
Yeah but going up 3 to 2 and a better pitching staff and needing only one game...Yogi screwed up, period....logic sez George Stone gets the ball for game 6 and Seaver( on regular rest) and Matlack and basically everyone for game 7...they had a golden opportunity to win and Yogi blew it.
The opening sequence is a perfect illustration of why I love instant replay in baseball. As a player growing up, and as a fan for my entire life, it always burned me up that umpires could totally blow a call and would NEVER change it despite how passionate the arguments from the players and manager involved. Harrelson was SO safe on that play at the plate. Even at normal speed, it's obvious that the catcher completely missed him. The umpire can be heard telling Berra, "Tell your player to slide." Sorry ump, just because he didn't slide shouldn't have influenced your pitiful call. Harrelson's reaction upon hearing he was called out is classic - almost George (Pine Tar) Brett-worthy. Those early-70's A's were quite a team!
I agree, even worse was a call in the 1970 World Series when catcher Elrod Hendricks tagged Bernie Carbo out with the glove hand empty and the right hand with the ball in plain sight except the umpire who called Carbo of the Reds out.. .incredible! Ump was wrong on the Harrelson play and lead to extra innings for the Mets who eventually won the game but wasted pitching in the process.
@@pst702 That was because the umpire in the 1970 game knew that the way he was positioned--watching to see if the ball would stay fair before Hendricks grabbed it--had interfered with Hendricks' ability to make the tag. He knew that he had inadvertently--to use an analogy from basketball--'run a pick' for Carbo. And Carbo griped about the call when he himself had failed to touch home plate.
@@wolfiethedog76 Check out the book "Big Hair and Plastic Grass", about '70's baseball. I was 11 in "73, and, in rural eastern Canada, pre- cable, our TV networks would pick up the World Series, but not the playoffs.
In 1972, my dad took me on a boys-only trip to the west coast, so his impressionable 9-year old son could see the US Open Golf championship in Pebble Beach, and as many baseball games as we could go to. The A’s became “my team” (weird for an east coast kid). I remember watching every single second of the 1972, ‘73, and ‘74 Playoffs and World Series on TV with my dad (except when he was at work). This video brings back everything I felt back then (50 years ago this fall), including the adoration, admiration, and love I had for my father 😀⚾️
Tugger pitched 6 innings in relief in game 2 and appeared in game 3 as well. relievers today couldn't even dream about doing that. these are the days when relievers earned saves, instead of coming in for one inning with a 3 run lead and getting credit for a save.
Ah, another shithead... Your statement shows that you are a pathetic asshole. The game has changed. We don’t know which pitchers could do that because a manager simply won’t let a pitcher do it. Fkn moron. And, it’s pathetic that you can’t enjoy this wonderful video without WHINING like a little bitch who needs her diaper changed that the game has changed in the past FORTY SEVEN YEARS, almost half a century. What an asshole.
A few times during Tug's tenure with the Mets he'd fall into a slump. So, the Mets would have him start a game and he'd go six innings and would be cured.
Tug helped the 1980 Phillies win a World.Series their first he was traded in a 6 player swap The Phillies rookie catcher was who the Mets wanted Tug who the Phillies wanted looks like the Phillies got the better end as they did with the Kenny Dykstra trade
I was just a 10 year old Mets fan watching this with my dad & I'll never ever forget that play at the plate as long as I live watching Willie staring at the catcher both him & the umpire & Bud coming across the plate everything in slow motion than Bud being called out & all hell breaking loose... what a time as a kid & as a Mets fan... who expected The Mets to go 7 with The A's & to even make it that year... But one thing The Mets did have was great pitching...
@@scottkeimig8571 No it was George Theodore who played a few years later and really did look like a stork. George Stone was a mid-year pickup who went on fire and was almost unhittable at the time. I think he went 12-3 and I agree with Cleon that he was their best chance in game 7.
I was just a toddler in 73 and became a Mets fan on the last day of the 83 season thanks to Rusty Staub. Staub nailed a bullet pinch hit to Right Field finishing the come from behind rally against the Expos. It was the most exciting baseball game I had watched up to that point. He was the best hitter the Mets ever had. Great to see Cleon Jones who I had completely forgotten about until watching this video. I had no idea that Willie Mays played for the Mets. On the A's side it was nice to see Reggie earning his way to become the world's first Million Dollar athlete. What a National League Pitcher killer he was! He sure mutilated the Mets and Dodgers pitchers. It was also nice to see Catfish Hunter at his prime. Nice video!
Mr. B ... I went to a catholic parochial school back in the day and in '60s the crazy nuns would stop classes when the games started and put on the TV and start our education on the sacrifice bunt and so on !
They were better than the current A's uniforms that look too plain. If they bring back those uniforms from the 1970's, they should add the elephant on the left sleeve.
In 1973, only 3 AL players hit 30 or more home runs with Reggie Jackson leading the way with a modest 32. In 2019, a whopping 31 AL players hit 30 or more home runs. Baseball sure has changed. Imo... not for the better.
I've been watching baseball for 50 years and i still think that Oakland dynasty had to be the most disrespected of any champion in history. I think because outside of 1971 they never won 100 games. All they did was win and win and win again!
Winning three series in a row, by anyone other than the Yankees, is phenomenal. In fact, these Oakland teams were the only team, other than the Yankees, to do it. Sensational!!!
The A’s of that era were nearly in five World Series in a row. In 1971 they were beaten in the playoffs by that Baltimore team they had four 20 game winners. Then they were in the series 72, 73, 74, and then in 1975 were beaten in the playoffs by the Jim Rice, Carlton Fisk, Fred Lynn Red Sox. They had an amazing run. Free agency ended it. The owner didn’t exactly help either.
@@christinacascadilla4473 Finley was definitely his own worst enemy. In 1971 he had the bright idea of having the A's visit Nixon at the White House, having not won anything, just having good record and an Eastern road trip. I'm sure just up the highway Earl Weaver did not hesitate to use this for a little extra motivation for the current World Champions.
I watched this as a 10 year old living in NE Pennsylvania. I was a pitcher and center fielder that year in LL so Seaver and Mays were my hero’s. I hardly cared that they lost.
I was also ten that autumn and a Oakland fan. Indeed those were the days. It was the 2nd world series I watched. 1972 Oakland vs Cincinnati was my 1st.
Shea was just a shell with a baseball field inside. Cold a lot of the year and your perspective on fly balls from the upper deck was off. The park had no atmosphere. Luckily the fans did.
@@howie9751, What on earth are you "Trying" to say??? Back in the 1980s and 1990s, I was at Shea Stadium every weekend. And when the Mets were out of town I was at Yankee Stadium the other weekends. The Fans at Shea back then had way more energy than Yankee Fans. It was a real fun place to be. Also, Shea Stadium had better Sports bars and better concessions areas than that cramped out of date Yankee Stadium. Yankee Stadium was beautiful when you were in the stands looking at the field, but it was an Absolute Joke when you were in the common areas and Concessions.
@@juan3zzI'm not sure why you're bringing the badly remodeled Yankee Stadium into the discussion, but maybe you ought to re-read what I wrote. Shea had no atmosphere in an of itself (unlike Fenway and Camden Yards), it was the fans that made Mets games memorable.
@751 Yeah, I agree. Shea Stadium was out in the middle of no where. It was not a neighborhood Arena like Yankee Stadium, Fenway, and other such Stadiums. And yes, there was no doubt a buzz in the Bronx and in the surrounding area when the Yankees were playing. There is so much to do outside of Yankee Stadium.
You mean the same Tom Seaver who took a 2-1 lead into the 8th inning of game 3... but gave up the tying run in a game the Mets lost 3-2 in 11 innings? If Seaver holds that lead... the Mets win the series in 5 games. I can see where you might second guess Berra... but to say Yogi "blew it" because he wanted Seaver & Matlack pitching games 6 & 7 is preposterous.
George Stone should have gotten the ball for game 6...his era was killing the A's and a rested Seaver and Matlack for 7 with the pitching staff would have been a advantage for the Mets....Yogi blew it.
So many people only think of Reggie Jackson with the Yankees, but real fans know where he got his great start. He is still my favorite player of all time, and will always be an Athletic to me.
@@loyaldude10 well, the National League East didn't have any great team that ran away with it... in fact up until the last week there was 3 or 4 teams in the running for the East title...the Mets strong point was their pitching...the Mets pitching kept this team in contention with the powerful Cincinnati Reds, the Big Red Machine... those '73 Mets won a tough 5 game series...it was basically an upset by beating the Reds in 5 games.. the Mets HAD the Oakland Athletics on the ropes after 5 games with a 3-2 advantage and could have won the 3rd game that went into extra innings (would have been a sweep at home after winning game 2 in Oakland)...Yogi's error was not using his hottest pitcher.... George Stone for game 6...would have had EVERYTHING for game 7 if Stone failed in game 6...Seaver, Matlack, Koosman, MacGraw,etc...Seaver was not up to par in game 6 and Yogi gave the ball to a 2nd year pitcher (Matlack) for a pressured game 7.....bad move... always save your best for last....Mets had it in their hands and lost it.
@@mikeforte7585 I think that's a reference to the Cleon Jones incident during the '74 Spring training. Look up Cleon Jones, van, Grant and apology and you should get the answer.
great series, had everything, ole bert campaneris, reggie jackson, sall bando, joe rudi, rollie fingers, what a great team. forgot all about that "sun field" in left at the alameda county stadium, all 4 games in oakland were day games starting at 1pm, the 3 games in new york were night games.
I was THERE !! Oakland as a 10 year old saw game 7 w/Nick Sr. and Willie Mays' last at bat ! " Mr. October " MVP!! and I share the same birthday on MAY 18th ! ...32 years later I would sing The National Anthem for The A's on that same grass 14 x ( from 2005-2014) ..of the A's winning 12 of those I sang at!! ( find me here on RU-vid)..also I played in The Oakland Coliseum on 11/28/80 as we WON The NCS 4A High School Championship !! #1 in the east bay, PITTSBURG PIRATES !! .....*..The Coliseum is very special to me !
@@Wixom2200 ....absolutely sir! Thank you sir! Why don’t you look up the 4 times of the 14 here on RU-vid sir, I’m sure sir! Type in my name sir, thank you sir, sure is right sir!
It would have been really cool to see the Mets and A's World Series rematch in 1988. Unfortunately Davey Johnson made some boneheaded moves against the Dodgers, and the heavily favored Mets lost in 7 in the NLCS.
I agree. Not bringing in Randy Myers in game 4. Starting Ron Darling instead of Dwight Gooden in game 7. It should have been the best 2 teams in baseball that season. The Mighty A's hitting against the Mighty Mets pitching although the Mets had some great hitting and the A's had great Pitching. It would have been a series for the 80s. But the Dodgers shocked the world and won it all fair and square with a lot of passion
David Cone shooting his mouth and then getting hit hard in Game 2 against the weak hitting Dodgers cost them the series more than any manager moves in that series
@@ATCguy1973 I was at game 4 and went home heartbroken. That was the turning point. Instead of being up 3 games to 1, the series was tied up 2-2. We will never know how Randy Myers would have pitched in the 9th, but a tired Gooden, and not the same Doc Gooden of '84 and '85 should have been pulled after 8 innings. Today it is rare for a starter to be out there in the 9th inning.
@@marcsonnenberg623 Yes I agree. I was a die hard Mets fan in 1988 and really wanted to see the A's and Mets matchup. I would have been at game 2 of the world series at Shea had the Mets made it.
Gowdy is playing up the Holtzman at bat line a bit too much. Dude spent several years in the National League and 1973 was the first year of the DH. Holtzman was plenty familiar with hitting.
An unreal stat is that the light-hititng 1973 Mets had outhomered the power-hitting 1973 Athletics in the WS four home runs to zero in the first 6 games.... but then in game 7, Oakland hit home runs
Everybody always talks about Willie Mays falling down in the outfield ...what about Joe Rudi and Cleon Jones ? They fell down too on fly balls in the blinding sun
The last time the Athletics won a winner-take-all postseason game: 1973 World Series Game 7 against the New York Mets. Since then, the A's are 0-9 in those playoff games.
Those were won in 5 and 4 games respectively, so what proved to be the final games of those series were not winner-take-all. The OP means postseason series that have gone the limit--the 5th game of a best 3 out of 5 series, the 7th game of a best 4 out of 7 series. The A's have been in such postseason games since' 73, they just haven't won any of them.
I was there! Cant believe i got to see Yogi, Willie,hank Aaron and Reggie all in one series! Not to mention that entire As team Rollie catfish,vida, campy ..,...
What i remember most about that series is Willie Mays singling in the winning run in game two, then turning into Joe Hardy while struggling to make a catch in center, and Joe Rudi continuously climbing the left field fence at Shea, robbing the mets hitters in the process!
It's interesting to hear Reggie, obviously a big fan of Server, compliment the Mets pitcher, saying that he wasn't the regular Tom Server of old, and how he is the games best athlete.
It would have been awesome if they were teammates. That could have happened had the Mets drafted Reggie number one overall in the 1966 draft instead of Steve Chilcott
@@ATCguy1973 true, Reggie Jackson was the best player available but Bob Schieffing made a costly mistake that cost the Mets dearly... Reggie who's half African American was dating a white woman (actually she was/ is a white Latino.....Jeanne Campos.... Jackson is also half Latino, mother's side)..its unbelievable that race played a part in a decision in the 1966 draft for the Mets....New York is a liberal and progressive city(even in 1966) and that wouldn't have been an issue .... I have read some of Reggie's books and Reggie had an axe to grind against the Mets..... look at the home run in game 7 .... a giant leap of a stomp at home plate .... tell me that's not on a subconscious level a sign of a payback...he has in his many autobiographies admitted it on some level....throw in George Stone in game 6 and Mr. October would have started his legacy a little later, 1974..and beyond
Mays’ difficulties in center field have become a metaphor for a once great player sticking around too long. However, from these highlights and Curt Gowdy’s commentary, it is evident that the sun caused havoc with all the outfielders in day games. Until 1971 all WS games were played in the daytime and the sun had to have played a role in a good number of plays. See game two of the 1966 WS in which another Willie, Willie Davis, lost two fly balls in the Los Angeles sun.
This narrarator had a Really Cool Old Nerd type of Voice and overall very mentally engaging commentator style delivery. Anybody realize that Bert Campanaris,normally a spray-hitter belted 22 home-runs in 1972..?! I always was fascinated about that. He must've been powerlifting during that particular year. : )
After the Oakland A's won the 1973 World Series, manager Dick Williams resigned because he and owner Charlie Finley had personal differences the entire season. Alvin Dark moved behind the bench and gave the A's their third World Championship. Williams returned as manager of the then-California Angels in midseason of 1974.
The Yankees wanted to hire Williams (Ralph Houk had unexpectedly resigned at the end of the '73 season), but Finley wouldn't let him out of his contract unless the Yankees gave him top prospects. They wound up hiring Bill Virdon (who'd been let go by the Pirates in September) instead. By spring training '74, Finley had brought in Al Dark as a replacement (his second go-round as A's manager), and (as you mentioned) Williams had to settle for the Angels job in mid-'74. No luck there, but he later had success turning losers into contenders in both Montreal and San Diego, even getting back to the World Series with the latter.
@@michaelleroy9281 Yup. A thankless job for the Padres, having to be the opponent of that Tigers team. Same managers as in the '72 series, but Sparky Anderson won this time.
Freeze the video @15:43, and you can see WHY the home plate ump blew the Harrelson call. Note that the ump's head is totally fixated on home plate, based on how low his head is when crouching down, and staring right in the direction of the plate itself, which means that only the corner of his eye was able to catch Ray Fosse's glove swiping at Harrelson. The ump then saw the swipe occur right before Harrelson's right leg touched home plate; but because of his head angle, was not able to tell that the glove never actually touched Harrelson, whereby he only assumed that it did. Unfortunately the ump, for whatever unknown reason - possibly because he was too lazy - never got up from his crouched position once the ball was hit into the outfield by Felix Milan, and remained in his crouched position as the outfielder threw the ball to the plate. The ump should have already been in a standing position once he saw the thrown ball go to the left of Fosse towards the third base side, and immediately position himself to the right of home plate - a little towards the first base side and away from the basepath - so that he could have had a clear level view of the play once Fosse caught the ball. Had that happened, he would have clearly seen the miss, and Harrelson would have been called safe.
And for rising all the way from last place to first by going 20-8 over the last month of the season; and for knocking off the heavily favored Reds in the NLCS.
I find it amazing that Willie Mays and Yogi Berra were on the exact same team together, a New York team (Mets) other than their previous New York teams (NY GIants, Yankees), in the World Series playing together for the title. Willie Mays played two seasons with the mets 1972-1973 and his last seasons in MLB.
I was 11; no cable TV in eastern Canada in those days, but our networks carried the World Series ( but not the playoffs ). I loved the day games too; were they just the weekend games or all the games?
@@lincolnmaceachern2410 they were during the week to. I remember coming home from school on a Monday afternoon and watching the 1978 one game playoff between the Yankees and red sox when bucky dent hit the winning home run.
@@steventesta6782 The question was about World Series games, that 1978 game was a game 163 divisional tie-breaker game (which, by the way, as a 12-year-old Red Sox fan at the time, I will excruciatingly recall to the end of my days). The answer is, by '73, there were no more weekday World Series games played during the day. The last World Series to consist entirely of day games was 1970. In 1971, to begin getting bigger TV audiences, they had one of the three weekday games played at night. For the '72 series, all three of the weekday games were scheduled to be night games; but because bad weather forced a postponement of Game 3, it threw the schedule off and necessitated rescheduling Game 5 for Friday afternoon--so there was one weekday day game in the '72 series, it just happened to be an unscheduled one. By '73, though, the plan of maximizing TV revenue with all the weekday games taking place at night was in place. In '76, they even experimented with a Sunday night game (Game 2). Starting in '77, while keeping weekend games during the day, they began scheduling World Series to begin and end (should it go the full 7) during the work week, so that there'd be just one pair of weekend day games to work around, rather than a pair at the beginning and another at the end. And then, mid-to-late '80s, they even phased out the weekend day games, started having them at night too (thus they were OK with starting and ending World Series on weekends again, too, didn't matter either way). And that's how it's been ever since.
We came close in 1984 to having WS day games that started and ended in daylight, if the Cubs had just managed to beat the Padres in the 1984 NLCS (Cubs first night game in Wrigley Field was 1988),
Early Reggie Jackson was considered a good enough outfielder to play center field in the WS. When he joined the Yankees in 1977 he was considered a limited outfielder whose best position was DH.
Finley was notoriously cheap. He bought the Players cheap, scratched diamonds for their World Series Championship rings. The least he could have done for his players was buy them some good rings for winning the World Series.
Free Agency was a wake-up call for Finley, as many players left him for bigger fortunes, starting with Catfish Hunter, after he won the Cy Young award in 1974.
@@pst702 I was one of those LL age kids at that time and I loved Charlie O. He had the .50 bleacher games, fan appreciation games where I got to meet all the players, and more. I have nothing but endearment to Charles Finley. He would sit behind 3rd base too with the fans.
I remember when he started trading away all of the A’s talent. Vida Blue and Joe Rudi were supposed to go to the Red Sox but Bowie Kuhn killed the trade.
Yeah, I was a 10 year kid who cried for the only time for a baseball outcome... but '86 relieved the memory of this series...one thing, loved Yogi for ALL he did as a manager but he had a hot pitcher in... George Stone and didn't use him... could have started him in game 6 and have Seaver, Matlack, MaGraw, and even Koosman for the 7th game... they had a 3-2 lead going to Oakland... has nothing to lose with Stone in game 6... in fact, his era stats were great in the postseason... yeah, I get it you want Seaver for the clincher BUT you would have gotten an extra days rest for Seaver by sending him on game 7
@@pst702 Cried in front of the tv when Garett popped out to end the series. I was 10 as well. Was a magical season....and I will remembrr 1973 as my favorite summer.
Cubs fan here. This kind of reminds me of 1945 when the favored Cubs lost in 7 games to the Tigers. But this debacle of a game in my point of view was pretty much a disaster.
This was a great World Series. I am surprised that it is not shown more frequently on highlight shows. The 1969 World Series had a more shocking outcome, but this World Series was much closer and had much more overall excitement than that one did.
It was a great series. My hero Tom Seaver let the Mets down that year. He will always be my favorite player - but his mediocre performance cost the Mets the championship.
I was a 9 year old mets fan watching this what thrills also ultimate disappointment when they lost. I did not know that the next nine years they where in the toilet before they turned it around 85-86 .
@@walterm.robertsiiiphd2157 Except they were done with weekday (school day) World Series games by '73. Nice that they still kept day games on the weekends, though--until they phased those out too, mid-to-late '80s. (Edit) Though the OP does say 'post season games,' and yes, there were still some daytime games in the LCS.
So fielders could lose the ball in the sun and batters can miss the pitches coming out of the shadows. I've been to many ballgames and they're always more exciting at night. The fans get crazy too.
With the As winning back-to-back-to-back World Series championships--1972-'74, never understood the Reds--Big red machine, being anointed the team of the '70s, especially considering the As defeated the Reds in 'the 72 WS.
The Reds went to 4 World Series. I know they won only 2 but they were THE team. The A's caught a HUGE break when Seaver did not get the call for game 7. Major blunder by Berra and his staff. Berra was a great player on great Yankees teams, but this cannot be overlooked. Prime Seaver's fastball was just as powerful in 73 as 69. An explosion when it hit the batting area as Seaver dragged his right leg to get more leverage.Willie Stargell in 1971 said Seaver's fastball was like a 747 taking off. Seaver would have shut down the A's in game 7. No question the A's probably should have lost this series. The best team does not always win.
And yet, 4 years later, in NY, Reggie Jackson was running off Yankee Stadium field like a line backer looking to level fans to the ground as he tried to escape the on-field chaos caused by thousands of fans.
@@jeremydavidson9194 that's because A's fans were a lot more civilized than those savages from the south bronx...if you were rooting for the opposing team, I heard that you were pelted with stuff...I guess the only way to watch a game as a fan of the opposing team was to get your John Rambo suit out of the cleaners...a M60, a rocket launcher and a couple of hand grenades to sit in Yankee Stadium...things have changed of course over the decades...you're NOT mugged physically any more just financially at Yankee Stadium
They used to run these World Series highlights of the great Oakland dynasty years during Cubs rain delays on WGN in the 1970s. I fell in love with these. It's great to see them again.
The A's and Cubs traded a lot back then. Maybe because Finley was from Illinois. Ken Holzman came over from the Cubs and was a key starting pitcher in the A's rotation those three series.
