1901 |
Ban Johnson forms the American League and asks Connie Mack to manage the Philadelphia franchise, with an ownership stake thrown in. |
1902 |
Colorful lefty Rube Waddell goes 24-7 to pace the A's to their first pennant. |
1905 |
Waddell wins 27 games to lead the A's to another pennant, but he misses the World Series with an injury and the A's lose to the Giants, four games to one. |
1909 |
Shibe Park, the first steel and concrete park in baseball history, opens on April 12 before a record crowd of 31,160. |
1910-14 |
The A's rip off four pennants in five years, with world championships in 1910, 1911 and 1913. |
1915 |
Afraid of escalating salaries caused by competition from the new Federal League, Mack sells off most of his best players. The A's plunge to last place in 1915, the first of seven straight years in the cellar. |
1929-31 |
A new A's dynasty led by Jimmie Foxx, Mickey Cochrane, AI Simmons and Lefty Grove reaches fruition with three straight pennants and world titles in 1929 and 1930. |
1933 |
With the Great Depression at it's height, Mack responds to dwindling attendance by once again starting to deal off his best players. Grove, dealt to the Red Sox, is the first big star to go. |
1935 |
Their roster all but gutted, the A's begin a stretch in which they finish last or.next-to-Iast 11 times in 12 years. |
1955 |
Still struggling both on the field and at the gate, the A's abandon Philadelphia and move to Kansas City. |
1968 |
After 13 seasons in Kansas City that were no more successful than the final years in Philadelphia, A's owner Charlie Finley moves the team to Oakland. |
1971-75 |
The Oakland Athletics"Mustache Gang," led by Reggie Jackson, Catfish Hunter and Rollie Fingers, win five straight division titles, with World Series victories in 1972, '73 and '74. |
1988 |
A new Oakland Athletics dynasty begins under Tony La Russa, with Jose Canseco, Mark McGwire and Dennis Eckersley the stars of a team that wins the World Series in 1989, AL titles in 1988 and 1990 and an AL West crown in 1992. |
2000 |
The youthful A's clinch the AL West, led by the dynamic Jason Giambi, but go down to the World Champion Yankees in the ALDS. Giambi received the AL MVP Award for his efforts. |
2001 |
The A's season is again ended by the Yankees in the divisional playoffs as they lose in five games after taking the lead. |
2002 |
The Oakland Athletics wins 20 straight games in August and September to set an American League record. Their season ends in the League Divisional Series for a third straight time, this time to the Twins. |
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