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The Oakland Athletics have a long and interesting history in major league baseball, this much is true. They’ve interspersed years of complete dominance with an equal number of years of complete ineptitude, though over the last few decades the story has revolved around what a truly excellent baseball team they've been. For the first 15 years of their life the team put together a truly awesome run, winning six American League championships and three World Series titles up until 1916. Truly, the Philadelphia Athletics -- as they were known back then -- were a really fine collection of ballplayers and the team experienced great success. From 1916 until 1922, though, the Athletics became cellar dwellers, finishing dead last. For the next five years they worked hard to regain their lost excellence and from 1927 through 1933, they took it to the other teams in the league.
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After that run, however, the Athletics fell back into the cellar for almost 40 years, with the bad times encompassing the team when it played in Philadelphia, Kansas City and a few years after it relocated to its home in Oakland, California.
It was in Oakland that the reborn Athletics -- owned at the time by the famous Charles O. Finley -- became a real powerhouse club in the first half of the 70s came into its own, winning three World Series titles in a row from 1972 until 1974. Finley had a real winner on his hands, and sales of Oakland Athletics tickets went through the roof. The team featured a pitching staff that included Jim "Catfish" Hunter, Vida “Blue Moon” Blue and wily reliever Rollie Fingers along with a young and powerful Reggie Jackson, who shined brightest among a galaxy of stars on the club.
Mostly because of the advent of free agency, the team gradually lost its star power, and bad blood between the stingy Finley and his ever-more valuable players eventually resulted in wholesale trades which gutted the team. For a time – even though the Oakland Athletics ticket sales remained good – the club expended a lot of energy fighting to stay out of the lower ranks in the American League, even though it could boast of future stars like Rickey Henderson and Tony Armas.
Over time, the rebuilding effort began to pay off with the addition of superstar players like Jose Canseco and Mark McGwire to supplement Henderson, Carney Lansford and stellar pitcher Dave Stewart. It was also during this time period that Oakland Athletics tickets became all the rage, and the team’s excellence on the field justified this phenomenon, winning four division, three league and one World Series title in the second-half of the 1980s.
For the most part since then, the team has managed to avoid falling back into the second division of baseball, and under General Manager Billy Beane, Oakland Athletics tickets have remained a popular and much sought-after item. Over the last decade and a half, in fact, the Athletics managed to make it into the playoffs four times, capitalizing on the talents of pitchers such as Mark Mulder and Barry Zito and also fielders like Jason Giambi and Miguel Tejada, both of whom can put the big wood to the cover of a ball with what seems like casual ease.
The team shows no sign of wanting to slow down for 2010, and it’s a sure bet that Oakland Athletics tickets will be a “must have” for the baseball lover in the Bay Area. With players like Giambi, Jack Crust and Justin Duchscherer, the season promises to be long and hot – at least it’ll be hot for the rest of the American League as the Athletics begin another march through the 2010 season.
