The Oakland Athletics, widely called the Oakland A's, were the Major League Baseball club that played in Oakland, California, from 1968 to 2024, a franchise that had earlier played in Philadelphia and Kansas City. They were a member of the American League West Division and played every home game at the Oakland Coliseum, sharing it for years with the football Raiders. In those 56 years the club won four World Series championships, six American League pennants and 17 Western Division titles, and its record in Oakland stood at 4,614 wins and 4,387 losses. Seventeen former players are in the National Baseball Hall of Fame, among them Dennis Eckersley, Rollie Fingers and Rickey Henderson. After the 2024 season the club left Oakland, citing the aging ballpark and the failure to secure public funding for a new one, and from 2025 it plays in West Sacramento as the Athletics.
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based in Oakland, California, from 1968 to 2024
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"firstYearOfPlay": "1901"
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"name": "Major League Baseball"
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The franchise won four World Series championships while based in Oakland.
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official capacity was listed as 43,662 for baseball
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based in Oakland, California, from 1968 to 2024
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American Major League Baseball (MLB) team based in Oakland, California
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American Major League Baseball (MLB) team
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Draft: 2018, Oakland Athletics
Gene Tenace (Wikipedia)
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most notably as a member of the Oakland Athletics dynasty that won three consecutive World Series championships between 1972 and 1974
Rollie Fingers (Wikipedia)
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as a member of the Oakland Athletics championship teams of the early 1970s
Dave Stewart (baseball) (Wikipedia)
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He pitched for the Dodgers, Texas Rangers, Philadelphia Phillies, Oakland Athletics, and Toronto Blue Jays
Reggie Jackson (Wikipedia)
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He helped Oakland win five consecutive American League West divisional titles, three straight American League pennants and three consecutive World Series titles from 1972 to 1974
José Rijo (Wikipedia)
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and also played in MLB for the Oakland Athletics.
Jermaine Dye (Wikipedia)
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On July 25, 2001, the Oakland Athletics acquired Dye in a three-team trade
Wikipedia, Mark McGwire
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He played 16 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Oakland Athletics and St. Louis Cardinals from 1986 to 2001
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