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The 1974 Oakland Athletics season was the 74th season for the Oakland Athletics franchise, all as members of the American League, and their 7th season in Oakland. The Athletics won their fourth consecutive American League West title with a record of 90 wins and 72 losses.
In 1972, the A's won their first league pennant since 1931 and faced the Cincinnati Reds in the World Series. The A's seven-game victory over the heavily favored Reds gave the team its first World Series Championship since 1930. Of the four wins against the Reds, three of them occurred in Cincinnati, and all four Series victories were by a ...
Oakland Athletics: 1968: MLB AL — 6th 82 80 .506 21 1969: MLB AL West: 2nd 88 74 .543 9 1970: MLB AL West 2nd 89 73 .549 9 1971: MLB AL West ^ 1st 101 60 .627 — Lost ALCS 3–0 Vida Blue (MVP, CYA) 1972: MLB † AL * West ^ 1st 93 62 .600 — Won ALCS 3–2 Won World Series 4–3 † Gene Tenace 1973: MLB † AL * West ^ 1st 94 68 .580
King, who died on October 18, 2005, was the lead radio voice of the Athletics for 25 years, from 1981 through 2005, the longest tenure for an A's announcer since the team's games were first broadcast in 1938 (they were the Philadelphia Athletics from 1901 to 1954, and the Kansas City Athletics from 1955 to 1967, before owner Charles O. Finley ...
The Swingin' A's is a nickname for the Oakland Athletics (A's) Major League Baseball team, primarily used in reference to the A's team of the 1970s that dominated the American League from 1971 to 1975, won three consecutive World Series championships in 1972, 1973 and 1974, and is widely recognized as being among the best in baseball history. [1]
After Game 1, superior Oakland pitching held Baltimore to just one run and twelve hits over the next three games, hitting a very weak .135 (12 for 89), with no extra-base hits. [9] With the win, the A's became the second (and, as of 2024, most recent) MLB team to win a playoff game while being held to just one hit.
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Salvatore Leonard Bando (February 13, 1944 – January 20, 2023) was an American professional baseball player and general manager. [1] He played in Major League Baseball as a third baseman from 1966 to 1981, most prominently as the captain of the Oakland Athletics dynasty that won three consecutive World Series championships between 1972 and 1974.