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The Giants would not return to the World Series until 2002, when they lost a seven-game series to the Anaheim Angels after holding a 3–2 series lead. It took the Giants until 2010 to get back to the World Series, and they won their first world championship since 1954 , when the team was still located in New York, by defeating the Texas ...
The 6.9-magnitude Loma Prieta quake struck at exactly 5:04 p.m., at the height of rush hour and just before the first pitch of Game 3 of the World Series between the San Francisco Giants and the ...
The series became marred by the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake which caused major damage to both Oakland and San Francisco, as well as Candlestick Park where Games 3 and 4 were played. This was the last championship the Athletics ever won during their time in Oakland.
The Great 1906 Earthquake and Fire – Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco website; The Great 1906 Earthquake and Fire Archived August 27, 2011, at the Wayback Machine – Bancroft Library; Mark Twain and the San Francisco Earthquake – Shapell Manuscript Foundation; Several videos of the aftermath – Internet Archive
On April 18, 1906, San Franciscans were awoken at 5:11 a.m. by what would become the deadliest earthquake in U.S. history.
OAKLAND, Calif. — Before sunset Thursday, there wi ll be no more "there there " for major professional sports in this Bay Area city. The Oakland Athletics will cease to be Oakland's Athletics ...
The 1989 World Series featured the Oakland Athletics and the San Francisco Giants in the first cross-town World Series since 1956. Game 3 of the series was scheduled to begin at San Francisco's Candlestick Park on October 17 at 5:35 PDT, and American television network ABC began its pre-game show at 5:00 PDT.
The Athletics' lone World Series championship of the era was a four-game sweep of the cross-bay rival San Francisco Giants in the 1989 World Series. Unfortunately for the A's, their sweep of the Giants was overshadowed by the Loma Prieta earthquake that occurred at the start of Game 3 before a national television audience. This forced the ...