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Oakland Athletics (2014 – 2015) Medals. Men's baseball. Representing United States. Baseball World Cup. 2007 Tianmu. National team. Bryan Douglas Anderson (born December 16, 1986) is an American former professional baseball catcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago White Sox, and Oakland Athletics ...
Fury Gene Tenace (/ ˈ t ɛ n ɪ s /; born Fiore Gino Tenacci; October 10, 1946) is an American former professional baseball player and coach. [1] He played as a catcher and first baseman in Major League Baseball from 1969 through 1983, most notably as a member of the Oakland Athletics dynasty that won three consecutive World Series championships between 1972 and 1974.
The A's swept the series, culminating in 12–5 victory which saw the A's come back from a 4-run deficit to clinch the AL West for the first time since 2006. The A's ended the regular season with a record of 94–68, leading the Major Leagues in walk-off wins, with 14 in the regular season, and one in Game 4 of the American League Division Series.
1974 →. The 1973 Oakland Athletics season involved the A's winning their third consecutive American League West title with a record of 94 wins and 68 losses. The A's went on to defeat the Baltimore Orioles in the ALCS for their second straight AL Championship, and won the World Series in seven games over the New York Mets to take their second ...
The St. Louis Cardinals, a professional baseball franchise based in St. Louis, Missouri, compete in the National League (NL) of Major League Baseball (MLB). Brewing magnate Gussie Busch 's 37-year-long ownership of the club ended with his death in 1989, and his brewery, Anheuser-Busch (AB) took over. In 1995, an investment group led by Drew ...
Baseball's Last Dynasty: Charlie Finley's Oakland A's. Master Press, Indianapolis, 1998. Peterson, John E. The Kansas City Athletics: A Baseball History 1954–1967. McFarland & Co., Jefferson NC, 1999. ISBN 0-7864-1610-6. Slusser, Susan. 100 Things A's Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die. Triumph Books, Chicago, 2015. ISBN 978-1629370682.
John Wasdin (1993) is one of six players taken by the A's from the state of Florida. Eric Chavez (1996) won six Rawlings Gold Glove Awards while with Oakland. [21] Barry Zito (1999) won a Cy Young Award while with the Athletics in 2002. Huston Street (2004) is one of four Athletics' first-round draft picks to win the Rookie of the Year Award.
As the Philadelphia Athletics, the team had a golden period between 1909 and 1914, when they won three World Series, and had three consecutive 100-win seasons between 1929 and 1931 with two further titles. In the period from 1988 to 1990 the Athletics - now based in Oakland - played in three further World Series and won one, while from 1999 to ...