Happy Wednesday, Athletics Nation!
I’m off to Dodger Stadium tonight to see my first A’s game of the post-Oakland era! I’m very excited, and as someone whose loyalty to the green and gold has been somewhat tested by The Big Move, I’m happy to say that today my heart is still with these plucky young Athletics and I will be cheering them on tonight as they bid to take another big series on the road.
The Oakland A’s made six World Series appearances and won four of them. The first and last of them were against the Cincinnati Reds; the latter in 1990 was swept by the Reds while the first championship of the Oakland era was secured in 1972 in a breathtakingly close 4-3 series in which all of the A’s victories were won by a single run against a different Reds team that included Pete Rose.