Oakland Athletics

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NBA champions, though.

NBA champions.

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I restricted it to five targets, although I'm going to be touching... on other targets.

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The Oakland A's will lead it off with Angel Mangual.

Mangual will be in center field.

Joe Rudy, R-U-D-I, will be in left field.

He will bat fifth.

Dave Duncan to do the catching.

Duncan and an All-Star from the Oakland contingent.

This is an all-star game.

They want to keep Hunter in there, but remember, he is 15-3 for the Oakland A's, who lead the American League division in the West by two and a half games, and he is their premier pitcher.

Won 15 and lost only three.

Want to make sure he's all right.

In his last 14 games before this All-Star break, Reggie Jackson hit seven home runs, knocked in 18 runs, and hit .25. at a 3.53 pace.

Outside of that, Reggie's just having an average year.

And, of course, as Jackson goes, so go the Oakland A's, and like cream, they have risen to the top of the American League Western Division, two and a half games in front of Kansas City, six in front of Minnesota, seven in front of California and Chicago.

Here is Jackson in the scoreless game, and who can forget a couple of years ago out of Detroit when Jackson stepped up in the all-star game there and blasted a tape-measured job home run that they got the American League started and gave them only their second win since 1960 at All-Star play.

Now 35 years of age.

One member of the Oakland A's in their glory years of the early 70s.

Morris is 6'5", 195 pounds, 31 years of age, lives in Hackensack, New Jersey.

is the spring training weight.

Bruce Gossage walks the tying runs in the eighth and Don Money's at bat.

The Brewers' last gasp falls just short, and the Yankees escape with their fifth division title in six years.

The next hurdle is the Oakland A's.

Bruce Gossage leads the seemingly invincible Yankees to a convincing three-game sweep, and the stage is set for a New York-Los Angeles World Series.

Meanwhile, in the city of Oakland, there is always the question of, hey, what are we ever going to do with the Coliseum? You know, the area that lost the Warriors, the area that lost the Raiders, and the area that lost the A's.

And we still got our Oakland A's, baby.

And don't forget that before she was recalled and then indicted, Sheng Tao was instrumental in this deal to sell the Coliseum from the city to a company that had no money.

Well, there's still talk of what they're going to do to the Coliseum.

And as you can imagine, there are some great moments to recall, and the Mets have their own World Series history to fall back on.

For the 1969 World Series, when they beat the Baltimore Orioles for the World Championship, and the 1973 World Series, when they went down to the ninth inning of the seventh and final game before bowing to the Oakland Athletics.

After the old-timers are introduced by Lindsey Nelson, then we'll have the annual old-timers game, followed by the regular game between the New York Mets and the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Roy Campanella.

Cubs traded Billy North to Oakland to get Bob Locker.

Billy North had quite a year for the Oakland A's.

Too high, and the count is two and two.

He could never break into the set Cub outfield.

Baltimore Orioles against the Pittsburgh Pirates, and they had to beat Vita Blue, Baltimore did.

Vita Blue in the Oakland Athletics, and here's a big base hit off Vita Blue.

It tied the game, and from that point on, Baltimore was never behind.

They got here with superstars and a team effort as all World Series participants get into a World Series.