Readers who were around during the A’s initial years in Oakland in the late 60s and early 70s, will remember a white Oakland A’s crested Ford Country Squire station wagon pulling an air-conditioned horse trailer, driving out into center field of the Oakland Coliseum before A’s games.
After a PA introduction, the mule’s trainer, Steve Cosca of Skyline Ranch in Oakland, would ride the mule around the warning track and entertain the crowd with an eventual bow down by the draped beast to Coliseum fans.
Charlie O the Mule, the famous mascot mule of the A’s, was named after the team’s stubborn owner, Charles O.