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November 3, 1973: Horacio Piña was traded by the Athletics to the Chicago Cubs for Bob Locker. [4]December 12, 1973: Rico Carty was released by the Athletics. [5]February 22, 1974: Reggie Jackson won an arbitration case for a $135,000 salary for the season, nearly doubling his previous year's $70,000.
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 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]
FILE - Fans pour onto the field at the Oakland Coliseum after the Oakland A's beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 3-2 and won their third straight World Series, Oct. 17, 1974, in Oakland.
The A's played their final game in Oakland on Thursday. There were plenty of tears as players, fans and employees reflected on 57 years of memories. ... watching replays of their 1972 World Series ...
They are the only team apart from the New York Yankees to complete a World Series “three-peat”, which they did between 1972 and 1974. As the Philadelphia Athletics, the team had a golden period between 1909 and 1914, when they won three World Series, and had three consecutive 100-win seasons between 1929 and 1931 with two further titles.
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 '70s were good times in Oakland. The A's won three consecutive World Series titles, including in 1973, with Reggie Jackson leading the charge.