To this day, it amazes me how little love this team gets relative to the Big Red Machine teams of the 70's. Heck, the Bronx Zoo Yankees are probably more revered than the 72-74 A's.
Lot of similarities between how Charlie Finley and John fisher ran the teams. Unwilling to pay their players, Trading them away rather than paying them, moving the franchise….
Philadelphia Athletics. They won three World Series championships in 1910, 1911, and 1913, and back-to-back titles in 1929 and 1930. Move them back to Philly if you care about history
We agree. Some of our most treasured recordings already have been uploaded by other channels, the World Series telecasts of those A's teams that we're so grateful to have been preserved.
@@ThisIsWhereYouFindBaseball just bought on ebay a Swingin' A's logo T-Shirt!! Already have a retro 1970's A's green jersey and a White jersey!! I Hope the A's keep the same colors, when they move to Las Vegas.
I’m 60yrs old. I grew up in a little town N.of Oakland named Winters,Ca. I fell in love with this team in 1969 and still am today! I hate Finley still because of how he treated his players and Managers! His niece sticks up for her uncle in this video. As family members should! I applaud her for that, but you can love and stand by a family member while still admitting their faults imo. But you can’t ask the fans to do so! It’s a shame one of his family members couldn’t make him see the errors of his ways! A’s4Life
I didn't start following the game until 1978, so I only knew the A's as a train wreck at first. I remember watching This Week in Baseball or something and they interviewed some sad A's fan during a game in a nearly empty Coliseum talking about how they were so great just a few years ago, and I couldn't process that. They got so bad so fast, they finished last in '77, behind even the expansion Mariners. In 1978, with a team of cast-offs and rookies they actually somehow caught some lightning and were in first place on May 21st when manager Bobby Winkles up and quit - he was riding a no-expectations first place high but left because he couldn't put up with Finley's attempted in-game interference and other things. How bad must it have been? They managed to hold onto first until the beginning of June but then the nose dive began. The last member of the club with ties to the championships was Bill North, and he was traded to the Dodgers for Glenn Burke on May 17th, 1978.
The 1988-1990 Oakland A's were just as good as the 1972-1974 team. Only one World Series title during those 3 seasons with the "Bash Brothers" of Jose Canseco and Mark McGwire and company. 1989.
As a Yankee fan I don’t understand how the A’s don’t get more credit for that dynasty or that run. As Gene Tennance said the only other team to have a 3peat was the Athletics besides the Yankees. And it’s not like they didn’t have star players, Catfish, Fingers, Reggie, Blue, Rudi. This was a great documentary
