Oakland Athletics

. High Noon is the film most requested by American Presidents. Coaches. Some speculate that High Noon provided inspiration for Akira Kurosawa's The Seven Samurai. Manager. And finally, in 2000, "High Noon" was entirely re-worked for cable television with Tom Skerritt in the lead role. They will play each other again in June of 2005 in Oakland, at McAfee Coliseum. The movie starred Sean Connery.

The Phillies took the series against the A's, 2-1. The 1980 science fiction film Outland borrowed from the story of High Noon for its plot. Ceremonies were held for the first game of the 3 game series at Veterans Stadium, as former Philadelphia A's players were honored on the field. A made-for-TV sequel, "High Noon Part II: The Return Of Will Kane" (produced in 1980, 28 years after the original movie was released), featured Lee Majors in the Cooper role. However, since the teams never faced each other in the World Series, they never played each other in games that counted; interleague play made the recent matchup possible. Its haunting theme music is still popular. Previously they had only played each other in exhibition games, dubbed "The City Series", which was played annually. High Noon is consistently on the Internet Movie Database's list of top 250 films, was #33 on American Film Institute's 100 Years, 100 Movies, and has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.

The Athletics played their former co-occupants of Shibe Park, the Phillies, for the first time in a championship season in June of 2003. Despite the constraints of a limited budget ($750,000) and only 28 days to film, he was able to obtain this even though most of the film was shot on a Hollywood lot by taking advantage of the smog in Los Angeles to darken the sky. While not ruling out relocating the A's elsewhere in the Bay Area, Wolff has stated his primary focus is finding a site in Oakland for a new baseball-only stadium. (This effect results from the fact that early film emulsions were most sensitive to blue (and uv) light; Zinneman's attempts to reproduce this effect in the film were one of the reasons he strongly opposed its proposed 'colourisation'). Rumors speculate that he wishes to move the team to San Jose, but those plans are complicated by the claims of the cross-bay San Francisco Giants that they own the territorial rights to San Jose and Santa Clara County. The director intended to capture the atmosphere of old Civil War photographs, with an austere gray sky as a backdrop. On March 30, 2005, the Athletics were sold to a group headed by Los Angeles real estate developer Lewis Wolff. One of the interesting techniques used in filming High Noon was to have the sequence of events occur in "real time." When a clock is shown in a scene, an event the audience expects to occur at another given time will occur that number of minutes later in the movie.

Following this trend, some speculated that Barry Zito could land with a team in the National League West before Opening Day 2005, but no such trade happened. It was nominated for Best Director, Best Picture, and Best Writing, Screenplay. Louis Cardinals. The movie won Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Gary Cooper), Best Film Editing, Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture (Dimitri Tiomkin), and Best Music, Song (Dimitri Tiomkin and Ned Washington for High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin'), sung by Tex Ritter). After the 2004 season, Athletics General Manager Billy Beane shocked many by breaking up the Big Three, trading Tim Hudson to the Atlanta Braves and Mark Mulder to the St. In the film she is a young woman who wants her husband to leave town and has a religious aversion to violence of any kind. Still, she stays with him when he fights — and even kills one of her husband's assailants herself. West Division. Although he had already won an Oscar for his performance in Sergeant York, he was considered too old for the part, and was, in fact, thirty years older than Grace Kelly, who plays his wife.

In 2004, the Athletics finished in 2nd place in the A.L. There was some controversy over the casting of Gary Cooper in the lead role. After becoming free agents, Giambi left for the New York Yankees after the 2001 season, while Tejada departed for the Baltimore Orioles after the 2003 season. It is often an interpreted as an allegory of the contemporary failure of intellectuals to combat the rise of McCarthyism. In recent years, the Athletics were best known for starting pitchers Tim Hudson, Mark Mulder, and Barry Zito, collectively referred to as “The Big Three,” as well as infielders Eric Chavez, Jason Giambi, and Miguel Tejada. Cooper's character is betrayed by all the "good" men in town who won't take up arms for a good cause. In two of those years (2001 against New York and 2003 against Boston), the Athletics won the first two games of the series, only to lose the next three straight and hence the playoffs. High Noon is a generally praised but somewhat controversial western in which a lawman in a western town feels obliged to face down a bunch of bad men coming into town.

The Athletics made the post season playoffs for four straight years, 2000-2003, but lost the first round (best 3-out-of-5) in each case, 3 games to 2. Writer Carl Foreman was also the producer of the film, but he was uncredited because he was blacklisted by Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee. West Division, but could not advance beyond the first round of playoffs. Zinnemann himself was highly influenced by the books of Karl May that he had read as a child. Perhaps as a result, the A’s at the turn of the 21st century were a team that usually finished at or near the top of the A.L. Cunningham (story) and Carl Foreman, based on a pulp short story, The Tin Star. It was directed by Fred Zinnemann, a controversial choice, since the producers were uncertain that an Austrian Jew would be able to direct the quintessential American genre: the Western. The Schott-Hofmann ownership allocated resources to building and maintaining a strong minor league system while almost always refusing to pay the going rate to keep star players on the team once they become free agents. The movie was written by John W.

Ever since that time, ownership has stated that a new baseball-only facility is necessary to ensure the economic viability of the Athletics. It stars:. They chose 9,300-seat Cashman Field in Las Vegas, playing six "home" games there. Upon giving up his office immediately after the wedding, he must take on a gang of outlaws, even though the entire town deserts him. The Athletics were forced to play their first homestand elsewhere. High Noon is a 1952 western film which tells the story of a town sheriff, who has just married a pacifist Quaker woman. The final insult was that construction was not finished by the start of the 1996 season. Jack Elam — Charlie the Drunkard (uncredited).

The bucolic view of the Oakland foothills enjoyed by baseball spectators was replaced with a jarring view of an outfield grandstand contemptuously referred to as "Mount Davis" after Raiders' owner Al Davis. Sheb Wooley — Ben Miller. The agreement called for the expansion of the Coliseum to more than 63,000 seats. Wilke — Pierce (as Robert Wilke). Then, in 1994, a deal was struck whereby the Los Angeles Raiders would move back to Oakland for the 1995 season. Robert J. After the Oakland Raiders football team moved to Los Angeles in 1982, many improvements were made to what had become a baseball-only facility. Lee Van Cleef — Jack Colby.

The Oakland Coliseum, though built as a multi-purpose facility, was considered by many to be one of the better ballparks in the major leagues. Harry Shannon — Cooper. The new owners were faced with another problematic issue, that of the venue where the team played. Morgan Farley — Dr. Mahin, Minister. In a turn of events eerily reminiscent of the A’s Roger Maris trade 28 years before, Mark McGwire celebrated his first full season with the Cardinals by setting a new major league home run record! In fact, McGwire came close to the record in 1997, when he split 58 homers between the A's and the Cards. Eve McVeagh — Mildred Fuller. Louis Cardinals, including McGwire, Eckersley, and manager La Russa. Ian MacDonald — Frank Miller.

Many landed with the St. Harry Morgan — Sam Fuller (as Henry Morgan). Once again, the Athletics’ star players were traded or sold, as the new owners’ goal was to cut payroll drastically. — Martin Howe (as Lon Chaney). Walter Haas died in 1995, and the team was sold to San Francisco Bay Area real estate developers Stephen Schott (no relation to one-time Cincinnati Reds’ owner Marge Schott) and Kenneth Hofmann, prior to the 1996 season. Lon Chaney Jr. They restored the team’s official name of “Athletics” in 1981, having been discarded by Charles Finley in favor of simply “A’s.” And, after a 23-year hiatus, the elephant was restored as the club mascot in 1986. Otto Kruger — Judge Percy Mettrick.

During the 15 years of Haas ownership, the Athletics became one of baseball’s most successful teams at the gate, drawing 2,900,217 in 1990, still the club record for single season attendance, as well as on the field. Grace Kelly — Amy (Fowler) Kane. West championship in 1992 (but losing to Toronto in the ALCS), then finishing last in 1993. Katy Jurado — Helen Ramirez. The team began a slow but steady decline, winning the A.L. Lloyd Bridges — Deputy Sheriff Harvey Pell. The A’s lone victory was a 4-game sweep of their cross-bay rivals, the San Francisco Giants, in the 1989 World Series. Thomas Mitchell — Mayor Jonas Henderson.

(In an almost-unrelated side note, Chicago columnist Mike Royko had predicted a Reds victory due to the "ex-Cub factor" - the A's had three ex-Cubs on their team). Gary Cooper — Marshal Will Kane. The Athletics lost the World Series in 1988 and 1990, losing the latter to the underdog Cincinnati Reds in a shocking 4-game sweep reminiscent of the A’s loss to the Braves 76 years earlier. Regular season dominance did not translate into post-season success, however. Reminiscent of their Philadelphia predecessors, this A’s team finished with the best record of any team in the major leagues during all 3 years, winning 104 (1988), 99 (1989), and 103 (1990) games, featuring such stars as McGwire, Canseco, Weiss, Carney Lansford, Dave Stewart, and Dennis Eckersley.

pennant three years in a row. In 1987, La Russa’s first full year as manager, the team finished at 81-81, its best record in 7 seasons. Beginning in 1988, the Athletics won the A.L. During the 1986 season, Tony La Russa was hired as the Athletics’ manager, a post he held until the end of 1995. Rookies of the Year.

Under the Haas ownership, the minor league system was rebuilt, which bore fruition later that decade as Athletics José Canseco (1986), Mark McGwire (1987) and Walt Weiss (1988) were chosen as A.L. (then president of Levi Strauss & Co.) prior to the 1981 season. Haas, Jr. He then looked to local buyers, selling the Athletics to San Francisco clothing manufacturer Walter A.

Though Finley found a buyer who would have moved the Athletics to Denver, the tentative deal was voided when the Oakland Coliseum refused to let the team out of its lease. As his estranged wife would not accept part of a baseball team in a property settlement, the team had to be sold. The man who brought American League baseball to the San Francisco Bay Area was being sued for a divorce. But, the Finley era was coming to a close.

Martin made believers of his young charges, “Billyball” was used to market the team, and the Athletics finished second in 1980. In a masterstroke, Finley hired Billy Martin to manage the young team. After three dismal seasons on the field and at the gate, the team started to gel again. In 1979, only 306,763 paying customers showed up to watch the A's, the team's worst attendance since leaving Philadelphia.

The 1977 version of the A’s finished in last place, behind even the expansion Seattle Mariners, who entered the American League that year. Three thousand miles and several decades later, one of baseball’s most storied franchises suffered yet another dismemberment of a dynasty team. After 1976 the season, most of the Athletics’ veteran players did become eligible for free agency, and predictably almost all left. Three days later, Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn voided the transactions in the “best interests of baseball.”.

On June 15, 1976, Finley sold left fielder Rudi and relief pitcher Fingers to Boston for $1 million apiece, and pitcher Blue to the New York Yankees for $1.5 million. Like his predecessor Connie Mack had done twice before, Charles Finley reacted by trading star players and attempting to sell others. The balance of power had shifted from the owners to the players for the first time since the days of the Federal League. Thus, all players not signed to multi-year contracts would be eligible for free agency at the end of the 1976 season.

Arbitrator Seitz had ruled that baseball’s reserve clause only bound players for one season after their contract expired. As the 1976 season got underway, the basic rules of player contracts were changing. Despite the loss of Hunter, the A’s repeated as West Division champions in 1975, but lost the ALCS to Boston in a 3-game sweep. As a result, Hunter became a free agent, and signed a contract with the New York Yankees for the 1975 season.

On December 13, 1974, arbitrator Peter Seitz ruled in Hunter’s favor. After the Athletics' victory in the 1974 World Series, pitcher Catfish Hunter filed a grievance, claiming that the team had violated its contract with Hunter by failing to make timely payment on an insurance policy during the 1974 season as called for. Reggie Jackson reported in his autobiography that when he asked for a raise following the 1972 season, Finley told him that his World Series check was his "raise". One tradition carried on from Philadelphia, which continues even into the 21st Century, is the low budget for players' salaries.

A contemporary book about the team was called Moustache Gang. the Squares,” as Cincinnati wore traditional uniforms and forbade facial hair on its players. The 1972 World Series against the heavily favored Cincinnati Reds was termed “The Hairs vs. Furthermore, in conjunction with a Mustache Day promotion, Finley offered $500 to any player who grew a mustache, at a time when every other team forbade facial hair.

Beginning in 1972, the Athletics began wearing jerseys of solid green or solid gold color, with contrasting white pants, at a time when all other teams wore all-white uniforms at home and all-grey ones on the road. The A’s teams of the 1970s were also known for their sartorial and tonsorial appearance. Players such as Reggie Jackson, Sal Bando, Joe Rudi, Bert Campaneris, Catfish Hunter, Rollie Fingers, and Vida Blue formed the nucleus of these teams. Finley termed this team the “Swingin’ A’s.” The players, in turn, often said they played so well as a team due to their universal dislike for their employer.

Unlike earlier Athletic championship teams, which thoroughly dominated their opposition, the A’s teams of the 1970s played well enough to win their division, then defeated teams that had won more games during the regular season, with good pitching, good defense, and clutch hitting. The Athletics won World Series championships in 1972, 1973 and 1974. Finley had built himself a winner. West title in 1971, only to lose to the Baltimore Orioles in the American League Championship Series.

West Division behind the Minnesota Twins – their highest finish in 37 years! After another second-place finish in 1970, the A’s won the A.L. During that year, the Athletics finished second in the A.L. With expansion to 12 teams in 1969, the American League was divided into two 6-team divisions. Managed by Bob Kennedy, the Oakland Athletics finished the 1968 season with an 82-80 record – their best record since 1952.

The Athletics arrived in Oakland just as the team was beginning to gel. Their overall record was 829-1,224, for a winning percentage of .404. During their 13-year existence, the Kansas City Athletics were arguably one of the worst teams ever in baseball, finishing in last or next to last place in 10 of those years. Senator Stuart Symington of Missouri blasted Finley on the floor of the Senate, calling him "one of the most disreputable characters ever to enter the American sports scene,” and said Oakland was “the luckiest city since Hiroshima.” In 1969, Kansas City was awarded an American League expansion team, the Kansas City Royals.

owners gave Finley permission to move the Athletics to Oakland for the 1968 season. Then-U.S. Finally, on October 18, 1967, A.L. President Joe Cronin promised Finley that he could move the team after three years, and the suit was dropped. When Finley reacted to the Louisville vote by filing a lawsuit against Municipal Stadium, A.L.

These requests came as no surprise, as rumors of impending moves to Atlanta, Denver, Oakland, San Diego and Seattle had long been afloat. By another 9-1 vote his request was denied. In 1964, he signed an agreement to move the A’s to Louisville, Kentucky (and hinted the team's name would change to "Louisville Sluggers"). His request was denied by a 9-1 vote.

owners for permission to move the Athletics to Arlington, Texas. On September 18, 1962, after less than two full years of ownership, Finley asked the A.L. But, while laying the groundwork for a future championship team, Finley began shopping the Athletics to other cities, despite his promises that the A’s would remain in Kansas City. And, in 1963, he replaced the traditional elephant mascot with a Missouri mule – not just a cartoon logo, but a real mule, which he named after himself -- “Charlie O, the Mule.”.

In 1963, he changed the team’s colors to “Kelly Green, Fort Knox Gold and Wedding Gown White.” In 1967, he replaced the team’s traditional black cleats with white ones. Finley also made changes to the team’s uniforms. The Athletics, owners of the worst record in the American League in 1964, had the first pick in the first draft, selecting Rick Monday on June 8, 1965. Thus, Finley was spared from having to compete with wealthier teams for top talent.

He was assisted in this endeavor by the creation of the baseball draft in 1965, which forced young prospects to sign with the team that drafted them – at the price offered by the team – if they wanted to play professional baseball. More importantly, he poured resources into the minor league system for the first time. He purchased a bus, pointed it in the direction of New York City, and had it burned, to symbolize the end of the “special relationship” with the Yankees. Finley, though, promised the fans a new day.

The Athletics finished in a tie for dead last with the expansion Washington Senators, nine games behind the other expansion team, the Los Angeles Angels. In 1961, Finley's first year as team owner, the American League had expanded to ten teams. Finley, who soon thereafter bought out the minority owners. In December of that year, controlling interest in the team was purchased by another Chicagoan, insurance executive Charles O.

Arnold died in 1960. It is perhaps not a coincidence that the "Old" Yankees became less competitive after Charles O. Finley bought the A's and stopped providing talent to the Yankees. Once "home," Terry became a 20-game winner for New York. batters, Terry apparently was ready to return. In May, 1959 the Yankees sent Jerry Lumpe and two washed-up pitchers to the Athletics for Terry.

After getting nearly two years of experience facing A.L. So, in June, 1957 they traded him to the A's in an eight-player deal. The Yankees brought up a promising young pitcher, Ralph Terry, in 1956, but were reluctant to use him in critical situations. However, there were others.

The trade no one ever forgot was the one made after the 1959 season, when the A’s sent young right fielder Roger Maris to New York for his aging counterpart, Hank Bauer, in a seven-player deal. In fact, Johnson had a pre-existing cozy relationship with the Yankees' front office, an obvious conflict of interest that was winked at by the rulers of the game at that time. Attendance declined, with fans and even other clubs charging that the A’s were little more than a minor league farm team for the Yankees. It didn’t work.

The cash was used to pay the bills, with the veterans perhaps having star appeal that could improve attendance. During the Johnson ownership, any good young players on the Athletics were invariably traded to the Yankees for aging veterans and cash. What no one realized at the time was that that number would remain the club record for attendance until 1982 -- the Athletics’ 15th season in Oakland!. In 1955, the new Kansas City Athletics drew 1,393,054 to newly renovated and newly renamed Municipal Stadium, a club record easily surpassing the previous record of 945,076 in 1948.

When Arnold Johnson moved the Athletics to Kansas City, fans turned out in record numbers for the era. pennants, their overall record from 1901-1954 was 3,886 games won and 4,239 games lost, for an overall winning percentage of but .478. Though they won 5 World Series and 9 A.L. Connie Mack once said, “You can’t win them all.” The Philadelphia A’s didn’t come close.

Newspaper writers also often referred to the team as the "Mackmen" during their Philadelphia days, in honor of their patriarch. The team name is typically pronounced "ath-LET-ics", but their long-time team owner Connie Mack called them by the old-fashioned colloquial pronunciation "ath-uh-LET-ics". Eventually the American League club, initially known by the storied name "Athletic of Philadelphia", went with the normal flow and became the plural "Philadelphia Athletics". That practice continued into the 1900s.

In the various league standings they were listed as "Athletic" rather than "Philadelphia". The members of the Athletic team wore an old-English "A" to emphasize the point. From the beginning in the 1860s, the actual team name was the singular "Athletic of Philadelphia". That oddity echoed the team's origins.

The typical uniform had only a stylized "A" on the left front, and likewise the cap usually had the same "A" on it. Furthermore, not once did "Philadelphia" appear on the uniform, nor did the letter "P" appear on the cap or the uniform. An interesting note is that, except for 1954 when the uniforms had "Athletics" spelled out in script across the front, the team's name never appeared on either home or road uniforms. On October 12, 1954, the owners voted to approve the sale of the Athletics to another Chicagoan, real estate developer Arnold Johnson, so that he could move the team to Kansas City for the 1955 season.

Finley), the American League owners were determined to "solve" the "Philadelphia problem" by moving the team elsewhere. Though last minute offers were put on the table to buy the Athletics to keep them in Philadelphia (including one made by Chicago insurance executive Charles O. During that year the team wore uniforms trimmed in blue and gold, in honor of the Golden Jubilee of "The Grand Old Man of Baseball." However, the team continued to slide, attendance plummeted, and revenues continued to dwindle. The 1950 season would be 88-year-old Mack’s 50th and last as A’s manager, a Major League record that will surely never be broken.

By now Mack and his immediate family were the team’s sole stockholders, and he had no intention of firing himself. Save for a 5th place finish in 1944, the A’s finished in last or next-to-last place every year from 1935-1946. Though he intended to rebuild once more, Mack was already 68 years old when the A’s last won the pennant in 1931, and many felt the game was passing him by. The Athletics finished 5th in 1934, then last in 1935.

The construction of the "spite fence" at Shibe Park, blocking the view from nearby buildings, only served to irritate potential paying fans. After a second-place finish in 1932 and 3rd in 1933, Mack again sold or traded his best players in order to reduce expenses. The Great Depression was well under way, and declining attendance had drastically reduced the team’s revenues. There are those who feel the 1929 A’s were the best team in baseball history, even surpassing the 1927 Yankees. In each of the three years, the A's won over 100 games.

In 1927 and 1928, the Athletics finished second to the New York Yankees, then won pennants in 1929, 1930 and 1931, winning the World Series in 1929 and 1930. After that, Mack began to build another winner. The team would finish in last place every year after that until 1922, when it finished 7th. As a result, the Athletics went from a 99-53 (.651) won-loss record and 1st place finish in 1914, to a record of 43-109 (.283) and 8th (last) place in 1915, and then to a modern major league low winning percentange of 36-117 (.235) in 1916.

teams, preferring to let the "prima donnas" go and rebuild with younger (and less expensive) players. Mack refused to match the offers of the F.L. teams for players. and N.L.

had done 13 years before, the new league raided existing A.L. As the A.L. A third major league, the Federal League, had been formed to begin play in 1914. Mack himself alluded to that rumor years later, but also debunked it, asserting that factions within the team along with the allure of the Federal League had distracted the team.

In his book To Every Thing a Season, Bruce Kuklick points out that there were suspicions that the A's had thrown the Series, or at least "laid down", perhaps in protest of Mack's notorious thriftiness. After the heavily favored A’s lost the 1914 World Series to the underdog Boston Braves in a 4-game sweep, Connie Mack traded, sold or released most of the team’s star players. Plank holds the club record for career victories, with 284. The team was known for its “$100,000 Infield,” consisting of John "Stuffy" McInnis (1b), Eddie Collins (2b), Frank "Home Run" Baker (3b) and Jack Barry (ss), as well as pitchers Eddie Plank and Charles "Chief" Bender.

They won over 100 games in 1911 and 1912, and 99 games in 1914. pennant six times (1902, 1905, 1910, 1911, 1913 and 1914), winning the World Series in 1910, 1911 and 1913. In the early years, the A’s won the A.L. As a Philadelphia team, the Athletics were either a very good team or a very bad team.

Lajoie was traded to the Cleveland Broncos (now the Cleveland Indians) and did not set foot on Pennsylvania soil until the National Agreement was signed between the two leagues in 1903. This order, though, was only enforceable in the state of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia Phillies. teams received a jolt when, on April 21, 1902, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court invalidated Nap Lajoie's contract with the Athletics, and ordered him returned to his former team, the N.L.

The Athletics as well as the 7 other A.L. contracts. in defiance of their N.L. The new league recruited many of its players from the existing National League, persuading them to “jump” to the A.L.

The team’s inaugural year saw second baseman Nap Lajoie [la-ZHWAY] lead the league in hitting with a .426 batting average, still an American League record. After John McGraw told reporters that Shibe had a “white elephant on his hands," Mack defiantly adopted the white elephant as the team mascot, though over the years the elephant has appeared in several different colors. In fact, the name "Athletic" for Philadelphia's team dated back to the "amateur" days of the national game, in the 1860s. Mack in turn persuaded Philadelphia manufacturer Benjamin Shibe as well as others to invest in the team, which would be called the Philadelphia Athletics, a name used by earlier teams in the National Association, National League, and American Association.

President Bancroft (Ban) Johnson recruited former player Connie Mack to run the club. A.L. The Athletic franchise was formed in 1901, one of eight charter members of the American League, the others being the Baltimore Orioles, Boston Americans, Chicago White Sox, Cleveland Blues, Detroit Tigers, Milwaukee Brewers, and Washington Senators. The team is often called the A's.

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Pitching Strikeouts: 349 Rube Waddell (1904). Pitching Wins: 31 Lefty Grove (1931), Jack Coombs (1910). Walks: 149 Eddie Joost (1949). Strikeouts: 175 Jose Canseco (1986).

Hitting Streak: 25 games Jason Giambi (1997). Stolen Bases: 130 Rickey Henderson (1982) (Major League Record). Triples: 12 Phil Garner (1976). Doubles: 47 Jason Giambi (2001).

Runs: 123 Reggie Jackson (1969). Hits: 204 Miguel Tejada (2002). Batting Average: .342 Jason Giambi (2001). Runs Batted In: 137 Jason Giambi (2000).

Home Runs: 52 Mark McGwire (1996). Dick Williams. Billy Martin. Connie Mack, Owner, General Manager, Manager 1901-1951.

Ken Macha. Tony La Russa. Art Howe. Charlie Finley.

Alvin Dark. Billy Beane, General Manager 1997-present. Sandy Alderson. 43 Dennis Eckersley (will be retired August 13, 2005).

42 Jackie Robinson (retired throughout baseball). 34 Rollie Fingers. 27 Catfish Hunter. 9 Reggie Jackson.

Joe Rudi (1974-76). Vic Power [PHI] (1954) - [KC] (1955-58). Mark McGwire (1990). Ray Fosse (1971).

Eric Chavez (2001-04). Gold Glove Award