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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 ...
A contemporaneous book about the team was called Mustache Gang. The A's seven-game victory over the heavily favored Reds gave the team its first World Series Championship since 1930. [35] They defended their title in 1973 and 1974. Unlike Mack's champions, who thoroughly dominated their opposition, the A's teams of the 1970s played well enough ...
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.
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The 1972 American League Championship Series was a tightly contested one, going the full distance of five games. Oakland won Game 1 with Fingers being tasked to save the game for the last two outs of the ninth inning along with the tenth and eleventh innings.
Champagne and Baloney: The Rise and Fall of Finley's A's is a nonfiction book by poet Tom Clark, published in 1976. [1] It chronicles the ups and downs of Charles O. Finley's Oakland Athletics, who won three World Series, in 1972, 1973, and 1974, before falling apart. The book includes portraits of players and team affiliates, drawn by the ...
The work is a non-fiction baseball book that combines elements of humor, anecdotal storytelling, odd lists and historical trivia. [41] The first book inspired a sequel, released March 16, 2010, by Fingers and Ritter: [42] The Rollie Fingers Baseball Bible: Lists and Lore, Stories and Stats, Cincinnati, Ohio: Clerisy Press. ISBN 978-1-57860-342-8.
A moustache (UK: / m ə ˈ s t ɑː ʃ /; mustache, US: / ˈ m ʌ s t æ ʃ /) [1] is a growth of facial hair grown above the upper lip and under the nose. Moustaches have been worn in various styles throughout history. [2] Count Gaishi Nagaoka, Japanese officer and Vice Chief of the General Staff in Japan during the Russo-Japanese War.