Oakland did manage to score on their next drive after the turnover with a second 23-yard touchdown pass from Lamonica to Miller, set up by Pete Banaszak's 41-yard reception on the previous play.

Plunkett was signed by Oakland to be their backup quarterback, and thus he did not see much playing time, throwing no passes in 1978 and just 15 passes in 1979.

Aside from restrictive covenants pertaining to some Oakland Hills properties, Jim Crow laws mandating racial segregation did not exist in California, and relations between the races were mostly harmonious.

Jackson won five consecutive American League West divisional pennants, three consecutive American League pennants and two consecutive World Series titles as a member of the Oakland Athletics ( he did not play in the 1972 World Series due to injury ) from 1971 to 1975 ; four American League East divisional pennants, three American League pennants and two consecutive World Series titles with the Yankees from 1977 to 1981 ; and two American League West divisional pennants with the California Angels in 1982 and 1986.

As a result, the Warriors did not play their championship series playoff games in Oakland ; rather, they played at the Cow Palace in San Francisco.

He did start two games in 1973 ( April 21 versus the California Angels at Oakland and May 7 against the Orioles at Baltimore ; His May 7, 1973 start was the last of his career ), other than that he came in to the game no earlier than the sixth on three more occasions.

According to Eldridge Cleaver, one Oakland police officer who witnessed the shoot out later told him that, " What they did was first degree murder.

He was buried at Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland, but did not have a gravestone until 2003, 35 years after his death.

At the time, Cleaver falsely claimed that the Oakland police had attacked the Panthers ; he did not publicly admit to having ambushed the police and seriously wounding two officers until 1980.

*. 588 winning percentage in ABA playoffs as the Los Angeles Stars ( only the Pittsburgh Condors and Oakland Oaks did better )

Lemon led the Yankees to the 1981 World Series but did not make it to the ' 82 All-Star Game as manager after again being fired by Steinbrenner, so Billy Martin, skipper of the 1981 AL runner-up Oakland Athletics, led the All-Star squad.

The plan failed, however, and on November 6, 1967, Van Gerbig announced that the team's name was being changed to Oakland Seals, although the league did not register the change until December.

The Cincinnati Reds won another division title in 1979 -- losing to the Pittsburgh Pirates in the NLCS -- but did not return to the World Series until their championship season of, when manager Lou Piniella led the team to the team's most recent championship, a four-game sweep of the heavily-favored Oakland Athletics, a re-match of sorts from the 1972 World Series.

Campbell was the first graduate of Prescott High School in 1893 and went on to St. Mary's College of California in Oakland where he studied geology, but did not receive a degree.

Born in Oakland, California, Archie Williams had one great year but he did more in that one year than many athletes achieve in a lifetime.

As the nearby cities of San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley grew, so did the population of Contra Costa County.

Tenace did it in 1972 with the Oakland Athletics.

However, he did bat leadoff for Oakland, something that is very rare to see out of a baseball catcher.

Oakland set an all time calendar day record with of rain on the 13th, as did Sacramento with.

In November 2005, Cox himself admitted to committing adultery while accusing Oakland County lawyer Geoffrey Fieger of blackmail, claiming that he threatened to reveal the affair if Cox did not drop an investigation into Fieger's alleged campaign finance violations.

" The filmmakers had the necessary instruments and equipment set up in the studio and invited the band to play, which they did, performing " Bivouac ", " Condition Oakland ", and " Parabola ".

The film notes that Beane turned down a $ 12. 5-million per year contract with Boston and returned to Oakland, but adds that the Red Sox did use many of the " Moneyball " ideas and soon won two World Series, including their 2004 title which was the first Red Sox championship in 86 years.

However, Herrold did not profit financially from his pioneering work, and later became a repair technician in the Oakland, California school district, and a janitor in a local shipyard.

He did not enter the NBA as a player, instead playing for the American Basketball Association for the New Orleans Buccaneers, Oakland Oaks, Washington Caps, Carolina Cougars and Virginia Squires.

Germán never played for Oakland, though he did spend-2002 in their rookie league, SIngle-A, and Double-A minor league affiliates before being traded.

The National Football League ( NFL ) champion Green Bay Packers defeated the American Football League ( AFL ) champion Oakland Raiders by the score of 33 – 14.

The Redskins defeated the Bills by the score of 37 – 24, becoming the fourth team after the Pittsburgh Steelers, the Oakland Raiders, and the San Francisco 49ers to win three Super Bowls.

Fans are unable to see Oakland ( which had been trailing 32 – 29 ) score 2 late touchdowns to win 43 – 32 ; as a result, thousands of outraged football fans flood the NBC switchboards to protest.

In the third inning of that seventh game, which ended in a 5 – 2 score, the A's jumped out to a 4 – 0 lead as both Bert Campaneris and Jackson hit two-run home runs off Jon Matlack — the only two home runs Oakland hit the entire Series.

Oakland, California won with an 8-4 score.

After giving up 34 points, Oakland finally managed to drive 82 yards down the field and score on a 39-yard touchdown pass from Gannon to wide receiver Jerry Porter.

The 2000 score was performed in London in 2004 and in Oakland, California, in 2012, with Davis conducting the orchestra.

* November 17 – The Oakland Raiders score two consecutive touchdowns in the last minute of the fourth quarter to beat the New York Jets 43 – 32, in the infamous " Heidi Game ".

Furthermore, Elam was the first player in NFL history to score at least 200 points against three or more teams ( San Diego Chargers: 222, Oakland Raiders: 215, Kansas City Chiefs: 203 ).

Then, in the American League Championship Series against the Oakland Athletics, Cuellar won Game Two by the score of 5 – 1.

Unfortunately, in Game Three of the American League Championship Series, Cuellar pitched all of quite long 11-inning game, but he lost by a score of 2 – 1 to the Oakland Athletics.

Pinch hitter Gonzalo Marquez singled, Tenace followed with a single, Don Mincher followed with another pinch-hit single scoring pinch-runner Allan Lewis to tie the game before a third pinch-hitter, Angel Mangual, singled off Clay Carroll to score Tenace with the game-winner to put Oakland up three games to one.

The Jets were the 6th seed in 2001, losing on the road in the first round to the Oakland Raiders by the score of 38 – 24.

In the second quarter, Hall and Janikowski both made field goals before Oakland scored the first touchdown of the game on a 66-yard drive that ended with Tim Brown's 2-yard touchdown reception to make the score 16-3 with 22 seconds left in the half.

In March 2012, Davis conducted the Oakland East Bay Symphony performing his score for the complete Brownlow restoration in a presentation by the San Francisco Silent Film Festival at the Paramount Theatre Oakland.

Oakland responded with a drive to the Colts 23-yard line, but with less than a minute left, Baltimore lineman John Dutton recovered a fumble from Davis to preserve the 10-7 score going into halftime.

Cockroft made two field goals in the third quarter, but in the fourth period, Oakland marched 80 yards to score on van Eeghen's second touchdown.

In the 1981 American League Division Series against the Oakland A's, he batted. 308, but failed to score a run, steal a base, or get an extra-base hit in the three-game sweep.

On August 25, 2009 Langerhans hit another game-winning home run against the Oakland Athletics off Craig Breslow on a two-ball two-strike pitch with one out and one runner on with the score tied 2-2 in the bottom of the tenth.

The San Francisco Silent Film Festival presented the complete 2000 restoration of the film, with Davis conducting his score, at the Paramount Theatre Oakland in March 2012.