The 2020 MLB season is on hiatus during the coronavirus pandemic, so we’ve got some time to burn and a baseball void to fill. Fortunately, there are decades of Oakland A’s history to look back on, and even rerunball is better than no ball at all. Let’s reminisce!
The first MLB draft was held in 1965. Prior to that, there had been various sets of rules for how teams signed amateur players, but they didn’t always work out fairly. In fact, for a stretch of time, the Yankees were accused of using the Kansas City A’s as a literal farm team, stashing young players in KC for their developmental years only to have them shipped to New York for peanuts in return.