It’s Monday, Athletics Nation.
The Athletics community lost a titan of A’s lore on Friday. “Cap’n” Sal Bando, the leader of the dynastic A’s of the early seventies, lost his long battle with cancer according to the Bando family.
The A’s tweeted this statement on Saturday:
Bando began his major league career in 1966 with the Kansas City A’s and became the team’s regular third baseman as well as team captain after the franchise moved to Oakland in 1968. He led the team through its most successful period in Oakland to date, in which the A’s won five division titles and three World Series championships from 1971 through 1975.