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Kansas City Athletics : A Baseball History, 1954-1967 by John E. Peterson (2003,
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- ISBN
- 9780786416103
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Mcfarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
ISBN-10
0786416106
ISBN-13
9780786416103
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2839646
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Kansas City Athletics : a Baseball History, 1954-1967
Subject
Baseball / History, General
Publication Year
2003
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Sports & Recreation, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
16.8 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2003-016500
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
22
Number of Volumes
1 vol.
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
796.357/64/09778/411
Table Of Content
Table of Contents Preface 1. Big League Dreams 2. A Clever Businessman 3. Quest for the A's 4. Last-Minute Maneuvering 5. Going to K.C. 6. How to Buy a Ballclub for Peanuts 7. Arnold Johnson's Ultimate Plan 8. The 90-Day Wonder 9. 1955: Big League Baseball Comes to K.C. 10. 1956: Listless and Bad 11. 1957: Big Trades Bring New Faces 12. 1958: Cerv's Amazing Season 13. 1959: Great Expectations 14. 1960: A Very Difficult Year 15. Who Will Buy the Team? 16. Charles O. Finley--The "O" Stands for Owner 17. Trying to Outdo Veeck 18. 1961: Gordon, Lane and Charlie O. 19. Courting Dallas 20. 1962: Let Bygones Be Bygones 21. 1963: Everything's Green and Gold 22. Happiness Is Being Somewhere Else 23. 1964: Rocky, Jim and a Pennant Porch 24. 1965: Charlie O.--The Man or the Mule? 25. 1966: The Dark Ages 26. 1967: "A Menace to Baseball" 27. "Luckiest City Since Hiroshima" 28. A Bad Marriage 29. Just a Yankees Farm Team 30. No More Trades with the Yankees 31. Crop Failure 32. Growing a Championship Team Notes Bibliography Index
Synopsis
The Athletics spent 13 seasons in Kansas City before moving to Oakland - a colourful history despite one of the worst records in baseball history. This work presents the relatively short history of the Kansas City franchise from 1954 through to 1967., The Athletics spent thirteen seasons in Kansas City before moving to Oakland--a colorful history despite one of the worst records in baseball history. Even so, many of the players who were part of the world championship teams in Oakland in the 1970s began their careers in Kansas City. This work presents the relatively short history of the Kansas City franchise from 1954, when Arnold Johnson purchased the Philadelphia Athletics and moved the team to Kansas City because of the financial benefits the city provided, to 1967, when Charles Finley moved the team to Oakland (after unsuccessful attempts to move it to Dallas, Atlanta, Louisville, Milwaukee and Seattle). In the 1950s, the team was called "a Yankee farm team" because of the numerous trades with the Yankees that favored the latter. The author re-evaluates these trades and concludes that they were not as one-sided as previously thought and really did benefit the team. The author also carefully considers Charles Finley's intentions to keep the team in Kansas City and his reasons for having to move them to Oakland.
LC Classification Number
GV875.K3P48 2003
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