The Rise and Fall of the Oakland A's Dynasty (1972-1974) 

It's amazing to still remember all those names and not be able to name 1 player on current A's roster

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Free agency destroyed the team. Finley would have traded away the entire team rather than lose them all for nothing.

My grandfather sold insurance with Finley and ended up being a General Manager for the Kansas city As in the early sixty's

Rollie Fingers didn't get traded to the Brewers,did you forget the four years in San Diego ?

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lowkey all of charles o finley ideas kinda hit . who wouldnt want to play with an orange ball as a batter , pinch runner if your a catcher and 3 Ball Walks just make sense

As soon as the team picture was taken Vida Blue sprinted to the clubhouse and shaved, Finley tried to get him to change his name to True Blue so Vida told him to change his name to True Finley.

My Idol at First Base, Willie Montañez was sent to The Philadelphia Phillies in place of Curt Flood

A $300 bonus to grow a mustache-oh boy! Even in 1972 that was only about $2,000. That's an insult to those mega-talented players.

The real reason why Flood did not want to go to Philadelphia was because his life and home in St. Louis. Not because he hated the city.

Even before free agency. The heart attack of the late Charles Oscar Finley started the decline. Reggie Jackson or 1 of the other players said that. The owner was not the same after that. The Mike Andrews incident led the late Dick Williams to resign and join the California Angels 😇. 2B Dick Green retired. Phil Garner and Manny Trillo took some slow 🐌 years before they reached their peaks ⛰. They wete already in other clubs by then. Had Finley traded Catfish in the 1973 offseason for Steve Carlton, Wilbur Wood, Ferguson Jenkins, Gaylord Perry, Nolan Ryan or the late Tom Seaver, the dynasty would have continued. Aside. MC Hammer 🔨, Mrs Fields and Tom Hanks worked at the Coliseum in those years. Rickey Henderson saw 👀 some of those games. This was before the Athletics drafted him out of Oakland Tech.

Two words killed this team- Curt Flood Once real free agency started even if Finley wasn't a cheap bastard he still wouldn't have been able to keep this team together.

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Ironically, the man responded for building the dynasty, Charles O. Finley was also responsible for tearing it down.

very informative video on the Oakland A's. I lived in the east bay during that time & got to see the greatest team! I am both an A's & Giant's fan. Born n raised in San Mateo area.

They were the baseball equivalent to the Philadelphia Flyers " broad street bullies" of the same years/era.

You need to fact check your trades from the mid 70's. You were wrong on most of what you said. It was Joe Rudy & Rollie Fingers to the Red Sox, Vida Blue was traded to the Yankees. Both trades were overturned. Rollie Fingers went on to win AL MVP in 1981 with Milwaukee

Fingers was a Padre before he joined the Brewers. The team appeared ready to move to Denver in the late 1970s due to the low attendance cited. However, Finley had one final move up his sleeve, hiring Billy Martin as his final manager. The team became popular, drawing more fans in the strike-shortened 1981 season than in any of the championship seasons of the 70s.

As an A’s fan, I love and hate Charlie. Heat still better than Fisher

If they kept this team together would they have won more championships, let's not forget they were still in their prime, plus they had good players coming up in the farm system.

Say what you will about Charlie Finley, he still should be in the Hall of Fame.

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Great place to watch a game!!!! Behind dugouts, sections 214 all the way around homeplate to the A's 3rd base dugout are GREAT! Going to miss the A's leaving Oakland.... It was affordable to watch a baseball game in todays day in age of player salaries...

Another gem