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The Athletics (often referred to as the A's) are an American professional baseball team based in West Sacramento, California.[4] The Athletics compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) West Division. The team will play its home games at Sutter Health Park in West Sacramento for the 2025–2027 seasons before its permanent move to Las Vegas.[5] While in West Sacramento, the team is being referred to as simply the "Athletics" and "A's", with no city name attached.[6] The franchise's nine World Series championships, fifteen pennants, and seventeen division titles are the second-most in the AL after the New York Yankees.
One of the AL's eight charter franchises, the team was founded in Philadelphia in 1901 as the Philadelphia Athletics. They won three World Series championships in 1910, 1911, and 1913, and back-to-back titles in 1929 and 1930. The team's owner and manager for its first 50 years was Connie Mack, and Hall of Fame players included Chief Bender, Frank "Home Run" Baker, Jimmie Foxx, and Lefty Grove. The team left Philadelphia for Kansas City in 1955 and became the Kansas City Athletics, before moving to Oakland, California, in 1968 and becoming the Oakland Athletics. The Athletics played their home games at the Oakland Coliseum from 1968 until 2024. Nicknamed the "Swingin' A's", under owner Charlie O. Finley they won three consecutive World Series in 1972, 1973, and 1974, led by players including Vida Blue, Catfish Hunter, Reggie Jackson, and Rollie Fingers. After being sold by Finley to Walter A. Haas Jr., the team won three consecutive pennants and the 1989 World Series behind the "Bash Brothers", Jose Canseco and Mark McGwire, as well as Hall of Famers Dennis Eckersley, Rickey Henderson and manager Tony La Russa. In 2002, the Athletics set the record for most consecutive wins in a season with twenty, an event that would go on to be the pioneering step in the application of sabermetrics in baseball.
From 1901 through the end of 2024, the franchise's overall win–loss record is 9,329–9,859–87 (.486). In Oakland, from 1968 to 2024, the Athletics had an overall win–loss record of 4,614–4,387 (.513).[7]
- ^ "About Stomper". Athletics.com. MLB Advanced Media. Retrieved August 21, 2018.
- ^ Clair, Michael (March 17, 2017). "Why do the A's wear green? You can thank Charlie Finley". MLB.com. MLB Advanced Media. Archived from the original on January 7, 2018. Retrieved January 6, 2018.
Before Finley came on board, the then-Kansas City A's wore baseball's standard blue-and-red combination. In 1963, that all changed as Finley outfitted the team in glorious gold (Finley said it was the same shade the United States Naval Academy used) and kelly green for the very first time.
- ^ Clair, Michael (February 27, 2021). "The best baseball caps ever, by team". MLB.com. MLB Advanced Media. Retrieved June 6, 2023.
How many big league teams do you know that wear green and yellow, the most fantastic color scheme in the world? Exactly: Only one.
- ^ Drellich, Evan. "A's Brand Transition Guidelines". X. Retrieved November 4, 2024.
- ^ Oakland A’s to play in Sacramento’s Sutter Health Park beginning in 2025 ahead of move to Las Vegas
- ^ Perry, Dayn (November 4, 2024). "A's officially drop Oakland from name, won't add Sacramento as future plans remain at a standstill". CBS Sports. Retrieved November 10, 2024.
- ^ "Oakland Athletics Team History & Encyclopedia". Baseball Reference. Sports Reference. Retrieved September 30, 2024.
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