The history of the AthleticsMajor 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.
Philadelphia (1901–1954)
Kansas City (1955–1967)
The Johnson era
In 1954, Chicago real estate magnate Arnold Johnson bought the Philadelphia Athletics and moved them to Kansas City. Although he was initially a hero for making Kansas City a major-league town, it soon became apparent that he was motivated more by profit than any regard for the baseball fans of Kansas City. He had long been a business associate of New York Yankees owners Dan Topping, Larry MacPhail and Del Webb, and had even bought Yankee Stadium in 1953, though the league owners forced Johnson to sell the property before acquiring the Athletics. He'd also bought Blues Stadium in Kansas City, home of the Yankees' top farm team, the Kansas City Blues of the American Association. After Johnson got permission to move the A's to Kansas City, he sold Blues Stadium to the city, which renamed it Kansas City Municipal Stadium and leased it back to Johnson. The lease gave Johnson a three-year escape clause if the team failed to draw one million or more customers per season. The subsequent lease signed in 1960 also contained an escape clause if the team failed to draw 850,000 per season.
The Oakland Athletics (often abbreviated to Oakland A′s) are an American professional baseball team based in Oakland, California. The Athletics are a member club of the West division of the American League (AL) in Major League Baseball (MLB). The club plays its home games at O.co Coliseum. The club has won nine World Series championships, the third most of all current Major League Baseball teams.
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The Oakland A's. What a franchise! Not sure if you've heard, but these guys like to win on a budget. They have their competitive windows, and then they trade everyone and start over. Because of this, it's easy to forget how good the good times are during the bad. One good time was the case of the 2012 Oakland Athletics, a rookie superteam featuring the likes of rookie Yoenis Cespedes, Josh Donaldson, Jarrod Parker, and Ryan Cook. Funnily enough, none of them won 2012 Rookie of the Year.
I'll also talk to a couple rookie players on the team, specifically Sea...
The Athletics' new stadium in Las Vegas is not set to be finalized until 2028. This means the A's would have to find a place to play for the season in between a...
The Athletics' new stadium in Las Vegas is not set to be finalized until 2028. This means the A's would have to find a place to play for the season in between and Oracle Park is an option team president Dave Kaval mentioned. https://abc7ne.ws/3QQflEs
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The Athletics' new stadium in Las Vegas is not set to be finalized until 2028. This means the A's would have to find a place to play for the season in between and Oracle Park is an option team president Dave Kaval mentioned. https://abc7ne.ws/3QQflEs
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The Oakland A's. What a franchise! Not sure if you've heard, but these guys like to win on a budget. They have their competitive windows, and then they trade everyone and start over. Because of this, it's easy to forget how good the good times are during the bad. One good time was the case of the 2012 Oakland Athletics, a rookie superteam featuring the likes of rookie Yoenis Cespedes, Josh Donaldson, Jarrod Parker, and Ryan Cook. Funnily enough, none of them won 2012 Rookie of the Year.
I'll also talk to a couple rookie players on the team, specifically Sean Doolittle and Travis Blackley. That's right old Foolish Baseball, creator of the MLB video essay series Baseball Bits, will be conducting interviews in this one. Funny hat and all. Who knows? Maybe there will even be a surprise cameo from Jake Mintz and Jordan Schusterman of the Cespedes Family BBQ.
There will also be a brief discussion of the Oakland A's relocation rumors. Are the Las Vegas A's viable? I'm not so sure. Personally, I'll side with the fans who organized the reverse boycott game rather than John Fisher. Finally, I promise I won't say Moneyball in this one. WAIT A SEC-
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The Oakland A's. What a franchise! Not sure if you've heard, but these guys like to win on a budget. They have their competitive windows, and then they trade everyone and start over. Because of this, it's easy to forget how good the good times are during the bad. One good time was the case of the 2012 Oakland Athletics, a rookie superteam featuring the likes of rookie Yoenis Cespedes, Josh Donaldson, Jarrod Parker, and Ryan Cook. Funnily enough, none of them won 2012 Rookie of the Year.
I'll also talk to a couple rookie players on the team, specifically Sean Doolittle and Travis Blackley. That's right old Foolish Baseball, creator of the MLB video essay series Baseball Bits, will be conducting interviews in this one. Funny hat and all. Who knows? Maybe there will even be a surprise cameo from Jake Mintz and Jordan Schusterman of the Cespedes Family BBQ.
There will also be a brief discussion of the Oakland A's relocation rumors. Are the Las Vegas A's viable? I'm not so sure. Personally, I'll side with the fans who organized the reverse boycott game rather than John Fisher. Finally, I promise I won't say Moneyball in this one. WAIT A SEC-
_________________________________________________________
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The Athletics' new stadium in Las Vegas is not set to be finalized until 2028. This means the A's would have to find a place to play for the season in between and Oracle Park is an option team president Dave Kaval mentioned. https://abc7ne.ws/3QQflEs
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The Oakland A's. What a franchise! Not sure if you've heard, but these guys like to win on a budget. They have their competitive windows, and then they trade everyone and start over. Because of this, it's easy to forget how good the good times are during the bad. One good time was the case of the 2012 Oakland Athletics, a rookie superteam featuring the likes of rookie Yoenis Cespedes, Josh Donaldson, Jarrod Parker, and Ryan Cook. Funnily enough, none of them won 2012 Rookie of the Year.
I'll also talk to a couple rookie players on the team, specifically Sean Doolittle and Travis Blackley. That's right old Foolish Baseball, creator of the MLB video essay series Baseball Bits, will be conducting interviews in this one. Funny hat and all. Who knows? Maybe there will even be a surprise cameo from Jake Mintz and Jordan Schusterman of the Cespedes Family BBQ.
There will also be a brief discussion of the Oakland A's relocation rumors. Are the Las Vegas A's viable? I'm not so sure. Personally, I'll side with the fans who organized the reverse boycott game rather than John Fisher. Finally, I promise I won't say Moneyball in this one. WAIT A SEC-
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The history of the AthleticsMajor 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.
Philadelphia (1901–1954)
Kansas City (1955–1967)
The Johnson era
In 1954, Chicago real estate magnate Arnold Johnson bought the Philadelphia Athletics and moved them to Kansas City. Although he was initially a hero for making Kansas City a major-league town, it soon became apparent that he was motivated more by profit than any regard for the baseball fans of Kansas City. He had long been a business associate of New York Yankees owners Dan Topping, Larry MacPhail and Del Webb, and had even bought Yankee Stadium in 1953, though the league owners forced Johnson to sell the property before acquiring the Athletics. He'd also bought Blues Stadium in Kansas City, home of the Yankees' top farm team, the Kansas City Blues of the American Association. After Johnson got permission to move the A's to Kansas City, he sold Blues Stadium to the city, which renamed it Kansas City Municipal Stadium and leased it back to Johnson. The lease gave Johnson a three-year escape clause if the team failed to draw one million or more customers per season. The subsequent lease signed in 1960 also contained an escape clause if the team failed to draw 850,000 per season.