Oakland Athletics































































Oakland Athletics

2019 Oakland Athletics season

Established in 1901
Based in Oakland since 1968









Oakland A's logo.svg Oakland A's cap logo.svg
Team logo Cap insignia
Major league affiliations


  • American League (1901–present)


    • West Division (1969–present)







Current uniform
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Retired numbers

  • 9

  • 24

  • 27

  • 34

  • 43

  • A's

  • 42

Colors


  • Kelly green, gold, white[a][2]
                  


Name



  • Oakland Athletics (1987–present)

  • Oakland A's (1968–1986)

  • Kansas City Athletics (1955–1967)

  • Philadelphia Athletics (1901–1954)



Other nicknames


  • The A's, The Swingin' A's, The White Elephants, The Elephants, The Green and Gold


Ballpark



  • Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum (1968–present)


  • Municipal Stadium (1955–1967)


  • Shibe Park (1909–1954)


  • Columbia Park (1901–1908)



Major league titles
World Series titles .mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}
(9)

  • 1910

  • 1911

  • 1913

  • 1929

  • 1930

  • 1972

  • 1973

  • 1974

  • 1989

AL Pennants
(15)

  • 1902

  • 1905

  • 1910

  • 1911

  • 1913

  • 1914

  • 1929

  • 1930

  • 1931

  • 1972

  • 1973

  • 1974

  • 1988

  • 1989

  • 1990

West Division titles
(16)

  • 1971

  • 1972

  • 1973

  • 1974

  • 1975

  • 1981

  • 1988

  • 1989

  • 1990

  • 1992

  • 2000

  • 2002

  • 2003

  • 2006

  • 2012

  • 2013

Wild card berths
(3)

  • 2001

  • 2014

  • 2018

Front office
Owner(s) John J. Fisher
Manager Bob Melvin
General Manager David Forst
President of Baseball Operations Billy Beane

The Oakland Athletics, often referred to as the A's, are an American professional baseball team based in Oakland, California. They compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) West division. The team plays its home games at the Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum. They have won nine World Series championships, the third-most of all current MLB teams. The 2018 season was the club's 50th while based in Oakland.


One of the American League's eight charter franchises, the team was founded in Philadelphia in 1901 as the Philadelphia Athletics. They won three World Series championships from 1910 to 1913 and back-to-back titles in 1929 and 1930. The team's owner and manager for its first 50 years was Connie Mack and Hall of Fame players included Chief Bender, Frank "Home Run" Baker, Jimmie Foxx, and Lefty Grove. The team left Philadelphia for Kansas City in 1955 and became the Kansas City Athletics before moving to Oakland in 1968. They won three consecutive World Championships between 1972 and 1974, led by players including Vida Blue, Catfish Hunter, Reggie Jackson, ace reliever Rollie Fingers, and colorful owner Charlie O. Finley. After being sold by Finley to Walter A. Haas Jr., the team won three consecutive pennants and the 1989 World Series behind the "Bash Brothers", Jose Canseco and Mark McGwire, as well as Hall of Famers Dennis Eckersley, Rickey Henderson and manager Tony La Russa.




Contents






  • 1 History


    • 1.1 Team name


    • 1.2 Elephant mascot




  • 2 Team uniform


  • 3 Stadium


    • 3.1 New stadium proposals


      • 3.1.1 Prior proposals


        • 3.1.1.1 Fremont


        • 3.1.1.2 San Jose


        • 3.1.1.3 Peralta








  • 4 Rivals


    • 4.1 San Francisco Giants


    • 4.2 Historic rivalries


      • 4.2.1 Philadelphia Phillies






  • 5 Achievements


    • 5.1 Awards


    • 5.2 Hall of Famers


    • 5.3 Ford C. Frick Award recipients


    • 5.4 Retired numbers


    • 5.5 Athletics Hall of Fame


    • 5.6 Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame


    • 5.7 Philadelphia Baseball Wall of Fame


    • 5.8 Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame


    • 5.9 Team captains




  • 6 Season-by-season records


    • 6.1 Individuals




  • 7 Current roster


  • 8 Minor league affiliations


  • 9 Radio and television


  • 10 In popular culture


  • 11 See also


  • 12 Notes


  • 13 References


  • 14 Further reading


  • 15 External links





History



The history of the Athletics Major League Baseball franchise spans the period from 1901 to the present day, having begun in Philadelphia before moving to Kansas City in 1955 and then to its current home in Oakland, California, in 1968. The A's made their Bay Area debut on Wednesday, April 17, 1968, with a 4-1 loss to the Baltimore Orioles at the Coliseum, in front of an opening-night crowd of 50,164.[3]



Team name


The Athletics' name originated in the term "Athletic Club" for local gentlemen's clubs—dates to 1860 when an amateur team, the Athletic (Club) of Philadelphia, was formed. (A famous image from that era, published in Harper's Weekly in 1866, shows the Athletic players dressed in uniforms displaying the familiar blackletter "A" on the front.) The team later turned professional through 1875, becoming a charter member of the National League in 1876, but were expelled from the N.L. after one season. A later version of the Athletics played in the American Association from 1882 to 1891.[4]



Elephant mascot


After New York Giants manager John McGraw told reporters that Philadelphia manufacturer Benjamin Shibe, who owned the controlling interest in the new team, had a "white elephant on his hands", team manager Connie Mack defiantly adopted the white elephant as the team mascot, and presented McGraw with a stuffed toy elephant at the start of the 1905 World Series.[5] McGraw and Mack had known each other for years, and McGraw accepted it graciously. By 1909, the A's were wearing an elephant logo on their sweaters, and in 1918 it turned up on the regular uniform jersey for the first time.


In 1963, when the A's were located in Kansas City, then-owner Charlie Finley changed the team mascot from an elephant to a mule, the state animal of Missouri. This is rumored to have been done by Finley in order to appeal to fans from the region who were predominantly Democrats at the time.[citation needed] (The traditional Republican Party symbol is an elephant, while the Democratic Party's symbol is a donkey.) Since 1988, the Athletics' 21st season in Oakland, an illustration of an elephant has adorned the left sleeve of the A's home and road uniforms. Beginning in the mid 1980s, the on-field costumed incarnation of the A's elephant mascot went by the name Harry Elephante.[6] In 1997, he took his current form, Stomper.[7]



Team uniform


Through the seasons, the Athletics' uniforms have usually paid homage to their amateur forebears to some extent. Until 1954, when the uniforms had "Athletics" spelled out in script across the front, the team's name never appeared on either home or road uniforms. Furthermore, neither "Philadelphia" nor the letter "P" ever appeared on the uniform or cap. The typical Philadelphia uniform had only a script "A" on the left front, and likewise the cap usually had the same "A" on it. In the early days of the American League, the standings listed the club as "Athletic" rather than "Philadelphia", in keeping with the old tradition. Eventually, the city name came to be used for the team, as with the other major league clubs.


After buying the team in 1960, owner Charles O. Finley introduced new road uniforms with "Kansas City" printed on them, as well as an interlocking "KC" on the cap. Upon moving to Oakland, the "A" cap emblem was restored, although in 1970 an "apostrophe-s" was added to the cap and uniform emblem to reflect the fact that Finley was in the process of officially changing the team's name to the "A's."




The Athletics logo (1983–1992)


Also while in Kansas City, Finley changed the team's colors from their traditional red, white and blue to what he termed "Kelly Green, Wedding Gown White and Fort Knox Gold." It was also here that he began experimenting with dramatic uniforms to match these bright colors, such as gold sleeveless tops with green undershirts and gold pants. The innovative uniforms only increased after the team's move to Oakland, which also came at the time of the introduction of polyester pullover uniforms. During their dynasty years in the 1970s, the A's had dozens of uniform combinations with jerseys and pants in all three team colors, and in fact did not wear the traditional gray on the road, instead wearing green or gold, which helped to contribute to their nickname of "The Swingin' A's." After the team's sale to the Haas family, the team changed its primary color to a more subdued forest green and began a move back to more traditional uniforms.





Justin Duchscherer pitched for the Oakland Athletics


Currently, the team wears home uniforms with "Athletics" spelled out in script writing and road uniforms with "Oakland" spelled out in script writing, with the cap logo consisting of the traditional "A" with "apostrophe-s." The home cap is green with a gold bill and white lettering, while the road cap, debuting in 2014, is all green with "A's" in white with gold trim. Regardless of road or home games, the batting helmets used are green with gold brim. However, before 2009, when the black A's helmets appeared, road helmets were green with green brim.


From 1994 until 2013, the A's wore green alternate jerseys with the word "Athletics" in gold. It was used on both road and home games. During the 2000s, the Athletics introduced black as one of their colors. They began wearing a black alternate jersey with "Athletics" written in green. After a brief discontinuance, the A's brought back the black jersey, this time with "Athletics" written in white with gold highlights. Commercially popular but rarely chosen as the alternate by players, in 2011 they were replaced by a new gold alternate jersey with "A's" in green on the left chest. With the exception of several road games during the 2011 season, the Athletics' gold uniforms are used as the designated home alternates. A green version of their gold alternates was introduced for the 2014 season to replace their previous green alternates. The new green alternates feature the piping, "A's" and lettering in white with gold trim.


In 2018, as part of the franchise's 50th anniversary since the move to Oakland, the A's wore a kelly green alternate uniform with "Oakland" in white with gold trim, and was paired with an all-kelly green cap.[8]


The nickname "A's" has long been used interchangeably with "Athletics", dating to the team's early days when headline writers wanted a way to shorten the name. From 1972 through 1980, the team nickname was officially "Oakland A's", although, during that time, the Commissioner's Trophy, given out annually to the winner of baseball's World Series, still listed the team's name as the "Oakland Athletics" on the gold-plated pennant representing the Oakland franchise. According to Bill Libby's Book, Charlie O and the Angry A's, owner Charlie O. Finley banned the word "Athletics" from the club's name because he felt that name was too closely associated with former Philadelphia Athletics owner Connie Mack, and he wanted the name "Oakland A's" to become just as closely associated with him. The name also vaguely suggested the name of the old minor league Oakland Oaks, which were alternatively called the "Acorns." New owner Walter Haas restored the official name to "Athletics" in 1981, but retained the nickname "A's" for marketing purposes. At first, the word "Athletics" was restored only to the club's logo, underneath the much larger stylized-"A" that had come to represent the team since the early days. By 1987, however, the word returned, in script lettering, to the front of the team's jerseys.


The A's are the only MLB team to wear white cleats, both at home and on the road, another tradition dating back to the Finley ownership.



Stadium


The Oakland Alameda Coliseum—originally known as the Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum, and later named as Network Associates, McAfee and Overstock.com Coliseum—was built as a multi-purpose facility. Louisiana Superdome officials pursued negotiations with Athletics officials during the 1978–79 baseball offseason about moving the Athletics to the Superdome in New Orleans. The Athletics were unable to break their lease at the Coliseum, and remained in Oakland.[9]


After the Oakland Raiders football team moved to Los Angeles in 1982, many improvements were made to what was suddenly a baseball-only facility. The 1994 movie Angels in the Outfield was filmed in part at the Coliseum, filling in for Anaheim Stadium.




The Coliseum as seen in its original open grandstand configuration before being enclosed.


Then, in 1995, a deal was struck whereby the Raiders would move back to Oakland for the 1995 season. The agreement called for the expansion of the Coliseum to 63,026 seats. The bucolic view of the Oakland foothills that baseball spectators enjoyed was replaced with a jarring view of an outfield grandstand contemptuously referred to as "Mount Davis" after Raiders' owner Al Davis. Because construction was not finished by the start of the 1996 season, the Athletics were forced to play their first six-game homestand at 9,300-seat Cashman Field in Las Vegas.[10]


Although official capacity was stated to be 43,662 for baseball, seats were sometimes sold in Mount Davis as well, pushing "real" capacity to the area of 60,000. The ready availability of tickets on game day made season tickets a tough sell, while crowds as high as 30,000 often seemed sparse in such a venue. On December 21, 2005, the Athletics announced that seats in the Coliseum's third deck would not be sold for the 2006 season, but would instead be covered with a tarp, and that tickets would no longer be sold in Mount Davis under any circumstances. That effectively reduced capacity to 34,077, making the Coliseum the smallest stadium in Major League Baseball. Beginning in 2008, sections 316–318 were the only open third-deck sections for A's games, which brought the total capacity to 35,067 until 2017 when new team president Dave Kaval took the tarps off of the upper deck, increasing capacity to 47,170. The Athletics are the only remaining MLB team still sharing a stadium with an NFL team on a full-time basis.


The Athletics' Spring training facility is Hohokam Stadium, located in Mesa, Arizona. From 1982 to 2014, their spring training facility was Phoenix Municipal Stadium, located in Phoenix, Arizona.[11] Previous spring-training sites since they moved to Oakland in 1968 were Yuma and Mesa, Arizona, as well as Las Vegas, Nevada, all in the 1970s.[citation needed]



New stadium proposals



Since the mid-2000s the A's have been in talks with Oakland and other Northern California cities about building a new baseball-only stadium. The team has said it wants to remain in Oakland. On November 28, 2018, The Athletics announced that the team had chosen to build its new 34,000-seat ballpark at the Howard Terminal site at the Port of Oakland. The team also announced its intent to purchase the Coliseum site and renovate it into a tech and housing hub, preserving Oracle Arena and reducing the Coliseum to a low-rise sports park as San Francisco did with Kezar Stadium.[12]



Prior proposals



Fremont

After the city of Oakland failed to make any progress toward a stadium, the A's began contemplating a move to the Warm Springs district of suburban Fremont. Fremont is about 25 miles south of Oakland; many nearby residents are already a part of the current Athletics fanbase.


On November 7, 2006, many media sources announced the Athletics would be leaving Oakland as early as 2010 for a new stadium in Fremont, confirmed the next day by the Fremont City Council. The plan was strongly supported by Fremont Mayor Bob Wasserman.[13] The team would have played in what was planned to be called Cisco Field, a 32,000-seat, baseball-only facility.[14] The proposed ballpark would have been part of a larger "ballpark village" which would have included retail and residential development. On February 24, 2009, however, Lew Wolff released an open letter regarding the end of his efforts to relocate the A's to Fremont, citing "real and threatened" delays to the project.[15] The project faced opposition from some in the community who thought the relocation of the A's to Fremont would increase traffic problems in the city and decrease property values near the ballpark site.



San Jose

In 2009, the City of San Jose attempted to open negotiations with the team regarding a move to the city. Although parcels of land south of Diridon Station would be acquired by the city as a stadium site, the San Francisco Giants' claim on Santa Clara County as part of their home territory would have to be settled before any agreement could be made.[16]


By 2010, San Jose was "aggressively wooing" A's owner Lew Wolff. Wolff referred to San Jose as the team's "best option", but Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig said he would wait on a report on whether the team could move to the area because of the Giants conflict.[17] In September 2010, 75 Silicon Valley CEOs drafted and signed a letter to Bud Selig urging a timely approval of the move to San Jose.[18] In May 2011, San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed sent a letter to Bud Selig asking the commissioner for a timetable of when he might decide whether the A's can pursue this new ballpark, but Selig did not respond.[19]


Selig addressed the San Jose issue via an online town hall forum held in July 2011, saying, "Well, the latest is, I have a small committee who has really assessed that whole situation, Oakland, San Francisco, and it is complex. You talk about complex situations; they have done a terrific job. I know there are some people who think it's taken too long and I understand that. I'm willing to accept that. But you make decisions like this; I've always said, you'd better be careful. Better to get it done right than to get it done fast. But we'll make a decision that's based on logic and reason at the proper time."[20]


On June 18, 2013, the City of San Jose filed suit against Selig, seeking the court's ruling that Major League Baseball may not prevent the Oakland A's from moving to San Jose.[21] Wolff criticized the lawsuit, stating he did not believe business disputes should be settled through legal action.[22]


Most of the city's claims were dismissed in October 2013, but a U.S. District Judge ruled that San Jose could move forward with its count that MLB illegally interfered with an option agreement between the city and the A's for land. On January 15, 2015, a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously that the claims were barred by baseball's antitrust exemption, established by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1922 and upheld in 1953 and 1972. San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo commented that the city would seek a ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court.[23] On October 5, 2015 the United States Supreme Court rejected San Jose's bid on the Athletics.[24]



Peralta

A 2017 plan would have placed a new 35,000 seat A's stadium near Laney College and the Eastlake neighborhood on the current site of the Peralta Community College District's administration buildings. The plan was announced by team president Dave Kaval in September 2017.[25] However, just three months later, college officials abruptly ended the negotiations.[26]



Rivals



San Francisco Giants



The Bay Bridge Series is the name of a series games played between (and the rivalry of) the A's and San Francisco Giants of the National League. The series takes its name from the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge which links the cities of Oakland and San Francisco. Although competitive, the regional rivalry between the A's and Giants is considered a friendly one with mostly mutual companionship between the fans, as opposed to White Sox–Cubs, or Yankees–Mets games where animosity runs high. Hats displaying both teams on the cap are sold from vendors at the games, and once in a while the teams both dress in uniforms from an historic era of their franchises.


The series is also occasionally referred to as the "BART Series" for the Bay Area Rapid Transit system that links Oakland to San Francisco. However, the name "BART Series" has never been popular beyond a small selection of history books and national broadcasters and has fallen out of favor. Bay Area locals almost exclusively refer to the rivalry as the "Battle of the Bay".[citation needed]


Originally, the term described a series of exhibition games played between the two clubs after the conclusion of spring training, immediately prior to the start of the regular season. It was first used to refer to the 1989 World Series in which the Athletics won their most recent championship and the first time the teams had met since they moved to the San Francisco Bay Area (and the first time they had met since the A's also defeated the Giants in the 1913 World Series). Today, it also refers to games played between the teams during the regular season since the commencement of interleague play in 1997. Through the 2018 regular season, the Athletics have won 63 games, and the Giants have won 57 contests.[27]


The A's also have edges on the Giants in terms of overall postseason appearances (18-12), division titles (16-8) and World Series titles (4-3) since both teams moved to the Bay Area, even though the Giants franchise moved there a decade earlier than the A's did.


On March 24, 2018 the Oakland A's announced that for the Sunday March 25, 2018 exhibition game against the San Francisco Giants, A's fans would be charged $30 for parking and Giants fans would be charged $50. However, the A's stated that Giants fans could receive $20 off if they shout "Go A's" at the parking gates.[28]


In 2018 the Athletics and Giants started battling for a "Bay Bridge" Trophy[29] made from steel taken from the old bay bridge which was taken down after a new bridge was opened in 2013[30][31]. The A's won the inaugural season with the trophy, allowing them to place their logo atop its bay bridge stand. [32]



Historic rivalries



Philadelphia Phillies



The City Series was the name of a series of baseball games played between the Athletics and the Philadelphia Phillies of the National League that ran from 1903 through 1955. After the A's move to Kansas City in 1955, the City Series rivalry came to an end. The teams have since faced each other in interleague play (since its introduction in 1997) but the rivalry has effectively died in the intervening years since the A's left Philadelphia. In 2014, when the A's faced the Phillies in inter-league play at the Oakland Coliseum, the Athletics didn't bother to mark the historical connection, going so far as to have a Connie Mack promotion the day before the series while the Texas Rangers were in Oakland.[33]


The first City Series was held in 1883 between the Phillies and the American Association Philadelphia Athletics.[34] When the Athletics first joined the American League, the two teams played each other in a spring and fall series. No City Series was held in 1901 and 1902 due to legal warring between the National League and American League.



Achievements



Awards




  • Catfish Hunter Award (2004–present)


Hall of Famers







Oakland Athletics Hall of Famers
Affiliation according to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum















Philadelphia Athletics

Home Run Baker
Chief Bender
Ty Cobb
Mickey Cochrane




Eddie Collins
Jimmy Collins
Stan Coveleski
Elmer Flick




Nellie Fox
Jimmie Foxx
Lefty Grove
Waite Hoyt
George Kell




Nap Lajoie
Connie Mack*
Herb Pennock
Eddie Plank*




Al Simmons
Tris Speaker
Rube Waddell*
Zack Wheat

















Kansas City Athletics

Luke Appling1




Lou Boudreau1




Whitey Herzog2
Tommy Lasorda2




Satchel Paige




Enos Slaughter

















Oakland Athletics

Harold Baines
Orlando Cepeda
Dennis Eckersley
Rollie Fingers




Goose Gossage
Rickey Henderson
Catfish Hunter**




Reggie Jackson
Tony La Russa2
Willie McCovey




Joe Morgan
Mike Piazza
Tim Raines




Don Sutton
Frank Thomas
Billy Williams
Dick Williams2





























  • Players and managers listed in bold are depicted on their Hall of Fame plaques wearing a Athletics cap insignia.

  • * – depicted on Hall of Fame plaque without a cap or cap insignia; Hall of Fame recognizes Athletics as "Primary Team"

  • ** – Catfish Hunter could not decide between the Yankees and Athletics, and so opted to wear no insignia on his cap upon his induction.


  • 1 − inducted as player; managed Athletics or was player-manager


  • 2 – inducted as manager; played for Athletics or was player-manager









Ford C. Frick Award recipients






Oakland Athletics Ford C. Frick Award recipients
Affiliation according to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum












Harry Caray
Herb Carneal






Al Helfer
Bill King






By Saam
Lon Simmons






  • Names in bold received the award based primarily on their work as broadcasters for the Athletics.













Retired numbers



The Athletics have retired six numbers, and honored one additional individual with the letter "A". Walter A. Haas, Jr., owner of the team from 1980 until his death in 1995, was honored by the retirement of the letter "A". Of the six players with retired numbers, five were retired for their play with the Athletics and one, 42, was universally retired by Major League Baseball when they honored the 50th anniversary of Jackie Robinson's breaking the color barrier. No A's player from the Philadelphia era has his number retired by the organization. Though Jackson and Hunter played small portions of their careers in Kansas City, no player that played the majority of his years in the Kansas City era has his number retired either. The A's have retired only the numbers of Hall of Fame members who played large portions of their careers in Oakland. The Athletics have all of the numbers of the Hall-of-Fame players from the Philadelphia Athletics displayed at their stadium, as well as all of the years that the Philadelphia Athletics won World Championships (1910, 1911, 1913, 1929, and 1930).






9

Reggie
Jackson
RF
 
Retired
May 22, 2004





24

Rickey
Henderson
LF
 
Retired
August 1, 2009





27

Catfish
Hunter
P
 
Retired
June 9, 1991





34

Rollie
Fingers
P
 
Retired
July 5, 1993





43

Dennis
Eckersley
P
 
Retired
August 13, 2005





A

Walter A.
Haas, Jr.
Owner
 
Honored
1995





42

Jackie
Robinson
All MLB
Retired
April 15, 1997




Athletics Hall of Fame


On September 5, 2018, the Athletics held a ceremony to induct seven members into the inaugural class of the team's Hall of Fame. Each member was honored with an unveiling of a painting in their likeness and a bright green jacket. Hunter, who died in 1999, was represented by his widow, while Finley, who died in 1996, was represented by his son. If the team ever gets a new stadium, a physical site will be designated for the Hall of Fame, as the Coliseum does not have enough space for a full-fledged exhibit. [35][36]








Key

dagger

Member of the Baseball Hall of Fame




























































Oakland Athletics Hall of Fame
No.
Player
Position
Tenure
Inducted
43
Dennis Eckersleydagger
P 1987–1995 2018
34
Rollie Fingersdagger
P 1968–1976 2018
24
Rickey Hendersondagger
LF 1979–1984
1989–1993
1994–1995
1998
2018
27
Catfish Hunterdagger
P 1965–1974 2018
9
Reggie Jacksondagger
RF 1967–1975
1987
2018
34 Dave Stewart P 1986–1992
1995
2018
Charlie Finley Owner
General Manager
1960–1981 2018


Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame





Dave Stewart, Oakland Athletics pitcher from 1986 to 1992 and 1995



17 members of the Athletics organization have been honored with induction into the Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame.



































































































































Athletics in the Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame
No.
Player
Position
Tenure
Notes
12 Dusty Baker OF 1985–1986
14, 17, 21, 28, 35 Vida Blue P 1969–1977
19 Bert "Campy" Campaneris SS 1968–1976
12 Orlando Cepeda 1B 1972 Elected mainly on his performance with San Francisco Giants
4, 6, 10, 14 Sam Chapman CF 1938–1941
1945–1951
Born and raised in Tiburon, California
43 Dennis Eckersley P 1987–1995 Grew up in Fremont
32, 34, 38 Rollie Fingers P 1968–1976
Walter A. Haas, Jr. Owner 1981–1995 Grew up in San Francisco, attended UC Berkeley
27 Catfish Hunter P 1968–1974
9, 31, 44 Reggie Jackson RF 1968–1975
1987

1 Eddie Joost
SS
Manager
1947–1954
1954
Born and raised in San Francisco
10, 11, 22, 29, 42 Tony La Russa
IF
Manager
1963
1968–1971
1986–1995

1, 4 Billy Martin
2B
Manager
1957
1980–1982
Elected mainly on his performance with New York Yankees, Born in Berkeley
44 Willie McCovey 1B 1976 Elected mainly on his performance with San Francisco Giants
8 Joe Morgan 2B 1984 Elected mainly on his performance with Cincinnati Reds, raised in Oakland
19 Dave Righetti P 1994 Born and raised in San Jose
34, 35 Dave Stewart P 1986–1992
1995
Born and raised in Oakland


Philadelphia Baseball Wall of Fame



The Athletics have all of the numbers of the Hall-of-Fame players from the Philadelphia Athletics displayed at their stadium, as well as all of the years that the Philadelphia Athletics won World Championships (1910, 1911, 1913, 1929, and 1930).


Also, from 1978 to 2003 (except 1983), the Philadelphia Phillies inducted one former Athletic (and one former Phillie) each year into the Philadelphia Baseball Wall of Fame at the then-existing Veterans Stadium. 25 Athletics have been honored. In March 2004, after Veterans Stadium was replaced by the new Citizens Bank Park, the Athletics' plaques were relocated to the Philadelphia Athletics Historical Society in Hatboro, Pennsylvania,[37][38][39] and a single plaque listing all of the A's inductees was attached to a statue of Connie Mack that is located across the street from Citizens Bank Park.[40][41]






















Key
Year
Year inducted

Bold
Member of the Baseball Hall of Fame

dagger

Member of the Baseball Hall of Fame as a member of the A's

Bold
Recipient of the Hall of Fame's Ford C. Frick Award


























































































































































































Philadelphia Baseball Wall of Fame
No.
Player
Position
Tenure
Inducted

Frank "Home Run" Bakerdagger
3B 1908–1914 1993

Charles "Chief" Benderdagger
P 1903–1914 1991
4, 6, 10, 14 Sam Chapman CF 1938–1951 1999
2 Mickey Cochrane C 1925–1933 1982
 — Eddie Collins 2B 1906–1914
1927–1930
1987
Jack Coombs P 1906–1914 1992
5 Jimmy Dykes
3B/2B
Coach
Manager
1918–1932
1940–1950
1951–1953
1984
11 George Earnshaw P 1928–1933 2000
5, 8 Ferris Fain 1B 1947–1952 1997
2, 3, 4 Jimmie Foxx 1B 1925–1935 1979
10 Lefty Grove P 1925–1933 1980
4, 7, 26 "Indian Bob" Johnson LF 1933–1942 1989
1 Eddie Joost
SS
Manager
1947–1954
1954
1995

Connie Mackdagger
Manager
Owner
1901–1950
1901–1954
1978
9, 27 Bing Miller RF 1922–1926
1928–1934
1998
1, 2, 9, 19 Wally Moses RF 1935–1941
1949–1951
1988
Rube Oldring CF 1906–1916
1918
2003

Eddie Plankdagger
P 1901–1914 1985
14 Eddie Rommel P 1920–1932 1996
21, 30 Bobby Shantz P 1949–1954 1994
6, 7, 28, 32
Al Simmonsdagger

LF
Coach
1924–1932
1940–1941, 1944
1940–1945
1981
10, 15, 21, 35, 38 Elmer Valo RF 1940–1954 1990

Rube Waddelldagger
P 1902–1907 1986
12 Rube Walberg P 1923–1933 2002
6, 19, 30 Gus Zernial LF 1951–1954 2001


Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame














































































































Athletics in the Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame
No.
Name
Position
Tenure
Inducted
Notes
Connie Mack Manager
Owner
1901–1950
1901–1954
2004
2, 3, 4 Jimmie Foxx 1B 1925–1935 2004
10 Lefty Grove P 1925–1933 2005
6, 7, 28, 32 Al Simmons
LF
Coach
1924–1932
1940–1941, 1944
1940–1945
2006
2 Mickey Cochrane C 1925–1933 2007
Eddie Collins 2B 1906–1914
1927–1930
2009
21, 30 Bobby Shantz P 1949–1954 2010
5 Jimmy Dykes
3B/2B
Coach
Manager
1918–1932
1940–1950
1951–1953
2011 Born in Philadelphia
Eddie Plank P 1901–1914 2012
Charles "Chief" Bender P 1903–1914 2014
Herb Pennock P 1912–1915 2014 Elected mainly on his performance with New York Yankees
By Saam Broadcaster 1938–1954 2014


Team captains


  • 6 Sal Bando, 3B, 1969–1976


Season-by-season records



The records of the Athletics' last ten seasons in Major League Baseball are listed below.











































































































Season
Wins
Losses
Win %
Place
Playoffs

2009
75
87
.463
4th in AL West


2010
81
81
.500
2nd in AL West


2011
74
88
.457
3rd in AL West


2012
94
68
.580
1st in AL West
Lost ALDS vs. Detroit Tigers, 3–2

2013
96
66
.593
1st in AL West
Lost ALDS vs. Detroit Tigers, 3–2

2014
88
74
.543
2nd in AL West
Lost ALWC vs. Kansas City Royals, 9–8

2015
68
94
.420
5th in AL West


2016
69
93
.426
5th in AL West


2017
75
87
.463
5th in AL West


2018
97
65
.599
2nd in AL West
Lost ALWC vs. New York Yankees, 7–2

10-Year Record

817

803

.504



All-Time Record

8,931

9,387

.488




Individuals


Khris Davis (outfielder/hitter) has been called “the most consistent hitter in baseball history”[42] with his 2014 to 2018 season averages of .244, .247, .247, .247, and .247.
[43]



Current roster




















Oakland Athletics 2019 spring training roster

40-man roster

Non-roster invitees
Coaches/Other

Pitchers




  • -- Tanner Anderson


  • 40 Chris Bassitt


  • 58 Paul Blackburn


  • 35 Aaron Brooks


  • 52 Ryan Buchter


  • 45 Jharel Cotton


  • 66 Ryan Dull


  • -- Mike Fiers


  • 48 Daniel Gossett


  • 16 Liam Hendriks


  • -- Grant Holmes


  • -- James Kaprielian


  • 55 Sean Manaea


  • 33 Daniel Mengden


  • 47 Frankie Montas


  • 36 Yusmeiro Petit


  • 56 Fernando Rodney


  • -- Joakim Soria


  • 39 Blake Treinen


  • 60 Andrew Triggs


  • 62 Lou Trivino


  • 57 J. B. Wendelken




Catchers




  • -- Chris Herrmann


  • 19 Josh Phegley


Infielders




  •  1 Franklin Barreto


  • 26 Matt Chapman


  • -- Jorge Mateo


  • 28 Matt Olson


  • -- Jurickson Profar


  • 10 Marcus Semien


Outfielders




  • -- Luis Barrera


  • -- Skye Bolt


  • 20 Mark Canha


  • 11 Dustin Fowler


  • 22 Ramón Laureano


  • 38 Nick Martini


  • 18 Chad Pinder


  • 25 Stephen Piscotty


Designated hitters



  •  2 Khris Davis















Manager



  •  6 Bob Melvin

Coaches




  • 17 Mike Aldrete (assistant hitting)


  • 51 Darren Bush (hitting)


  • 29 Ryan Christenson (bench)


  • 90 Jeremy Dowdy (bullpen catcher)


  • 14 Scott Emerson (pitching)


  • 59 Marcus Jensen (bullpen/catching)


  •  7 Mark Kotsay (quality control)


  • 41 Al Pedrique (first base)


  • 88 Philip Pohl (bullpen catcher)


  •  4 Matt Williams (third base)






39 active, 0 inactive, 0 non-roster invitees


Injury icon 2.svg 7- or 10-day disabled list

* Not on active roster

Suspended list

Roster, coaches, and NRIs updated December 24, 2018

Transactions
Depth Chart

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Minor league affiliations



The Oakland Athletics farm system consists of seven minor league affiliates.[44]


















































Level
Team
League
Location

Triple-A

Las Vegas Aviators

Pacific Coast League

Summerlin, Nevada

Double-A

Midland RockHounds

Texas League

Midland, Texas

Class A-Advanced

Stockton Ports

California League

Stockton, California

Class A

Beloit Snappers

Midwest League

Beloit, Wisconsin

Class A Short Season

Vermont Lake Monsters

New York–Penn League

Burlington, Vermont

Rookie

AZL Athletics

Arizona League

Mesa, Arizona

DSL Athletics

Dominican Summer League

Santo Domingo, Distrito Nacional, Dominican Republic


Radio and television



As of the 2018 season, the Oakland Athletics have had 14 radio homes.[45] Since 2011, the Athletics' flagship radio station has been KGMZ 95.7 FM "The Game".[46] However, the A's announced via Twitter that this relationship will not continue for the 2019 season, as the club considers options that will provide fans with signal strength, a consistent home for broadcasts, and an ongoing radio partnership.[47] The longstanding announcing team featuring Ken Korach and Vince Cotroneo will remain unchanged.


Television coverage is exclusively on NBC Sports California. Some A's games air on an alternate feed of NBCS, called NBCS Plus, if the main channel shows a Sacramento Kings game at the same time. On TV, Glen Kuiper covers play-by-play, and Ray Fosse typically provides color commentary. Kuiper and Fosse are frequently joined by Dallas Braden, who adds additional color from the field level.



In popular culture


The 2003 Michael Lewis book Moneyball chronicles the 2002 Oakland Athletics season, with a specific focus on Billy Beane's economic approach to managing the organization under significant financial constraints. Beginning in June 2003, the book remained on The New York Times Best Seller list for 18 consecutive weeks, peaking at number 2.[48][49] In 2011, Columbia Pictures released a film adaptation based on Lewis' book, which featured Brad Pitt playing the role of Beane. On September 19, 2011, the U.S. premiere of Moneyball was held at the Paramount Theatre in Oakland, which featured a green carpet for attendees to walk, rather than the traditional red carpet.[50]



See also



  • List of Oakland Athletics team records

  • List of Oakland Athletics no-hitters

  • List of Oakland Athletics owners and executives

  • List of Oakland Athletics managers

  • Oakland Athletics award winners and league leaders

  • List of Oakland Athletics first-round draft picks

  • List of Oakland Athletics Opening Day starting pitchers



Notes





  1. ^ The team's official colors are green and gold, according to the team's mascot (Stomper)'s official website.[1]




References





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  2. ^ Clair, Michael (March 17, 2017). "Why do the A's wear green? You can thank Charlie Finley". MLB.com. MLB Advanced Media. Retrieved January 6, 2018. Before Finley came on board, the then-Kansas City A's wore baseball's standard blue-and-red combination. In 1963, that all changed as Finley outfitted the team in glorious gold (Finley said it was the same shade the United States Naval Academy used) and kelly green for the very first time.


  3. ^ Boxscore from Baseball-Reference.com "Wednesday, April 17, 1968, 7:46PM, Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum"


  4. ^ "American Association (19th Century) - BR Bullpen". www.baseball-reference.com. Retrieved 2018-01-15.


  5. ^ "Logos and Mascots". MLB.com. Retrieved September 26, 2016.


  6. ^ "Mascots you don't see on sports sidelines". May 22, 2007.


  7. ^ "Stomper's Place". Oakland Athletics.


  8. ^ "Oakland A's to wear kelly green alternate jersey for Friday home games". MLB.com (Press release). MLB Advanced Media. January 26, 2018. Retrieved January 27, 2018.


  9. ^ United Press International (January 30, 1979). "Yankees, Twins still dickering". St. Petersburg Times. Retrieved June 19, 2009.


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  11. ^ Leavitt, Parker (October 24, 2014). "Mesa's Hohokam Stadium ready for Oakland A's". The Arizona Republic. Retrieved 1 December 2014.


  12. ^ "A's settle on a ballpark site and a futuristic stadium". The Mercury News. 2018-11-28. Retrieved 2018-11-28.


  13. ^ Dennis, Rob (December 30, 2011). "Fremont mayor Bob Wasserman dead at 77". The Argus (Fremont). Retrieved January 21, 2012.


  14. ^ "A's, Cisco reach ballpark deal". USA Today. November 9, 2006. Retrieved May 20, 2010.


  15. ^ "Full text of A's letter to Fremont". February 24, 2009.


  16. ^ Associated Press (June 16, 2010). "Plans for A's stadium in San Jose moving forward". USA Today. San Jose, California. Retrieved May 5, 2018.


  17. ^ "How the A's ballpark plans stack up". San Jose Mercury News. Bay Area News Group. August 24, 2010. Retrieved August 18, 2013.


  18. ^ Seipel, Tracy (September 8, 2010). "75 Silicon Valley leaders endorse A's move to San Jose". San Jose Mercury News. Bay Area News Group. Retrieved August 18, 2013.


  19. ^ Calcaterra, Craig (Jun 30, 2011). "In case you forgot, the Athletics are still in franchise limbo". HardballTalk. NBC Sports. Retrieved August 18, 2013.


  20. ^ Koehn, Josh (July 12, 2011). "Selig Talks About A's Move to San Jose". San Jose Inside. Sanjoseinside.com. Retrieved August 18, 2013.


  21. ^ Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, LLP (June 18, 2013), CITY OF SAN JOSE; CITY OF SAN JOSE AS SUCCESSOR AGENCY TO THE REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY OF THE CITY OF SAN JOSE; and THE SAN JOSE DIRIDON DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY, Plaintiffs, v. OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER OF BASEBALL, an unincorporated association doing business as Major League Baseball; and ALLAN HUBER "BUD" SELIG, Defendants (PDF), U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, retrieved May 5, 2018CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)


  22. ^ Associated Press (June 19, 2013). "San Jose sues MLB over A's vote". San Francisco, California: ESPN. Retrieved August 18, 2013.


  23. ^ Associated Press (January 15, 2015). "San Jose loses appeal over A's move". San Francisco, California: ESPN. Retrieved January 17, 2015.


  24. ^ Egelko, Bob (October 5, 2015). "U.S. Supreme Court rejects San Jose's bid to lure Oakland A's". SFGate. Hearst Communications, Inc. Retrieved August 19, 2015.


  25. ^ http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/A-s-want-to-build-new-ballpark-next-to-Laney-12193239.php


  26. ^ "Proposed site for A's ballpark falls through". New Tribune. Retrieved 2017-12-06.
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  27. ^ "Head-to-Head record for Oakland Athletics against the listed opponents from 1997 to 2018". baseball-reference.com.


  28. ^ Goldberg, Ron (March 24, 2018). "Athletics Offer $20 Parking Discount to Giants Fans Who Yell 'Go A's' at Gates". Bleacher Report. Retrieved March 26, 2018.


  29. ^ https://www.mlb.com/news/athletics-giants-unveil-bay-bridge-trophy/c-269789752


  30. ^ https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Bay-Bridge-Now-Open-to-Public-222062721.html


  31. ^ https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2018/09/08/old-bay-bridge-piers-demolish/


  32. ^ https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/As-Take-Bay-Bridge-Series-With-Another-Walkoff-Win-Over-the-Giants-488844751.html


  33. ^ "2014 Promotional Schedule". Oakland Athletics.


  34. ^ Burgoyne, Tom (2004). Movin' on Up: Baseball and Phialdephia Then, Now, and Always. B B& A Publishers. p. 128. ISBN 0-9754419-3-0.


  35. ^ https://www.sfchronicle.com/athletics/article/A-s-inaugural-Hall-of-Fame-class-includes-some-13208023.php#photo-16121012/


  36. ^ https://www.athleticsnation.com/2018/9/5/17825586/game-141-as-induct-hall-of-fame-class-then-down-the-yankees-8-2


  37. ^ For photos of the A's Wall of Fame plaques, see Philadelphia A's Society Museum and Library Archived December 29, 2005, at the Wayback Machine. webpage. Philadelphia Athletics Historical Society. Retrieved September 23, 2010.


  38. ^ Philadelphia Athletics Historical Society Archived September 27, 2010, at the Wayback Machine. official website. Retrieved September 23, 2010.


  39. ^ Fitzpatrick, Frank (February 22, 2011). "Demographics may doom the Philadelphia Athletics Historical Society". philly.com. Philadelphia Media Network (The Philadelphia Inquirer). Retrieved February 23, 2011.


  40. ^ For photos of the plaque, see Montella, Ernie (June 5, 2004). "Wall of Fame Day in Hatboro, Pennsylvania". Philadelphia Athletics Historical Society. Archived from the original on December 19, 2010. Retrieved September 23, 2010.


  41. ^ Jordan, David M. "Vet Plaques Come to Hatboro". Philadelphia Athletics Historical Society. Archived from the original on September 6, 2008. Retrieved September 23, 2010.


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  43. ^ https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/daviskh01.shtml


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Further reading



  • Bergman, Ron. Mustache Gang: The Swaggering Tale of Oakland's A's. Dell Publishing Co., New York, 1973.

  • Dickey, Glenn. Champions: The Story of the First Two Oakland A's Dynasties—and the Building of the Third. Triumph Books, Chicago, 2002.
    ISBN 1-57243-421-X

  • Jordan, David M. The Athletics of Philadelphia: Connie Mack's White Elephants, 1901–1954. McFarland & Co., Jefferson NC, 1999.
    ISBN 0-7864-0620-8.

  • Katz, Jeff. "The Kansas City A's & The Wrong Half of the Yankees." Maple Street Press, Hingham, Massachusetts, 2006.
    ISBN 978-0-9777436-5-0.

  • Kuklick, Bruce. To Everything a Season: Shibe Park and Urban Philadelphia 1909–1976. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ, 1991.
    ISBN 0-691-04788-X.


  • Lewis, Michael. Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game. W. W. Norton & Co., Inc., New York, 2003.
    ISBN 0-393-05765-8.

  • Markusen, Bruce. 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.



External links






  • Oakland Athletics official website


  • Official website Edit this at Wikidata

  • Philadelphia Athletics Historical Society

  • Oakland Athletics stats and minor league statistics

  • Sports E-Cyclopedia

  • Oakland A's prospect information
























Awards and achievements
Preceded by

Pittsburgh Pirates (1909)
Boston Red Sox (1912)
New York Yankees (1928)


World Series champions
Philadelphia Athletics

1910 and 1911
1913
1929 and 1930
Succeeded by

Boston Red Sox (1912)
Boston Braves (1914)
St. Louis Cardinals (1931)

Preceded by

Pittsburgh Pirates (1971)
Los Angeles Dodgers (1988)


World Series champions
Oakland Athletics

1972, 1973, and 1974
1989
Succeeded by

Cincinnati Reds (1975)
Cincinnati Reds (1990)

Preceded by

Chicago White Sox (1901)
Boston Americans (1904)
Detroit Tigers (1909)
Boston Red Sox (1912)
New York Yankees (1928)


American League champions
Philadelphia Athletics

1902
1905
1910 and 1911
1913 and 1914
1929, 1930, and 1931
Succeeded by

Boston Americans (1903)
Chicago White Sox (1906)
Boston Red Sox (1912)
Boston Red Sox (1915)
New York Yankees (1932)

Preceded by

Baltimore Orioles (1971)
Minnesota Twins (1987)


American League champions
Oakland Athletics

1972, 1973, and 1974
1988, 1989, and 1990
Succeeded by

Boston Red Sox (1975)
Minnesota Twins (1991)











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