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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 ...
The Athletics all–time roster is a list of people who have played at least one game for the Athletics, Oakland ... 1974–75; Gary Waslewski, P, 1972; Neal ...
The A's took a 4–0 lead and went on to win to repeat as world champions; Campaneris caught Wayne Garrett's pop-up for the final out of the Series. In 1974 , he broke Jimmy Dykes ' franchise mark for career at bats (6 023), and in 1976 , he broke Dykes' mark for games played (1,702), as well as Al Simmons ' Athletics record of 1,827 career hits.
The Mustache Gang is a term coined for the 1972 Oakland Athletics team; the Athletics broke traditionally conservative baseball views by sporting mustaches. From the change in American men's fashion away from facial hair in the 1920s to the early 1970s, there had only been two baseball players who had facial hair during the regular season: Stanley "Frenchy" Bordagaray of the Brooklyn Dodgers ...
The A's final Oakland homestand begins at 6:40 p.m. PT Tuesday against the Rangers. They'll conclude the series and their stay in Oakland with Thursday's series finale against Texas, a day game ...
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]
The Oakland Athletics have selected the contract of Australian native Jack O'Loughlin and recalled fellow pitcher Tyler Ferguson from Triple-A Las Vegas on Saturday. The moves came after the A's ...