Then, in 1995, a deal was struck whereby the Raiders would move back to Oakland for the 1995 season.

Against the Oakland Athletics on August 22, Ryan struck out Rickey Henderson to become the only pitcher to record 5, 000 career strikeouts.

That afternoon, the region was struck by the magnitude 6. 9 Loma Prieta earthquake, causing freeway collapses in Oakland and major fires in San Francisco.

Occupy Oakland activist and United States Marine Corps and Iraq War veteran Scott Olsen was struck in the head by a less lethal bean bag round fired by a SWAT team member from the Oakland Police Department.

Shortly after the vessel struck the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge, she was sold by her owners, Fleet Management Ltd., and rechristened, MSC Hanjin Venezia.

On June 10, 1999, Hoffman struck out the side in the ninth inning in a 2 – 1 Padres victory over the Oakland Athletics for his 200th career save.

But Oakland quickly struck back, starting with Garrett's 43-yard kickoff return to his own 47.

While with the Oakland Athletics, he struck out 16 Seattle Mariners on April 16,, setting a club record.

The team went back to wearing this uniform at home on Thanksgiving Day in 2009 while their opponent was the Oakland Raiders who wore their AFL Legacy Weekend throwbacks.

The rivalry would in the following years be virtually negated by very poor play of he Colts ; the Colts would win just 117 games in the twenty-one seasons ( 1978 – 98 ) that bracketed their 1977 playoff loss to the Oakland Raiders and the 1999 trade of star running back Marshall Faulk ; this included a 0 – 8 – 1 record during the NFL's strike shortened 1982 season.

After relocating back to Oakland, the team sued the NFL for interfering with their negotiations to build a new stadium at Hollywood Park prior to the move.

When the Raiders moved back from Los Angeles in 1995, the city of Oakland and the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Authority agreed to sell Personal Seat Licenses ( PSLs ) to help pay for the renovations to their stadium.

The rivalry with the Oakland Athletics dates back to when the Giants were in New York and the A's were in Philadelphia and was renewed in 1968, when the Athletics moved from Kansas City.

While the Steelers defeated the Buffalo Bills, 32-14, in the first round, the favored Dolphins lost to the Oakland Raiders, 28-26, giving up Raiders running back Clarence Davis ' 8-yard touchdown reception with 26 seconds remaining in the game with a play now known as the Sea of Hands.

Oakland went on to defeat the previous season's Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers, which was missing starting running back tandem of Franco Harris and Rocky Bleier, 24 – 7.

) However, Vikings running back Brent McClanahan fumbled the ball while being tackled by Raiders linebacker Phil Villapiano and linebacker Willie Hall recovered the ball for Oakland.

Then, Oakland got the ball back in excellent field position after returner Neal Colzie returned Minnesota's punt 25 yards to the Vikings 35-yard line.

On third down from the Oakland 20-yard line, Plunkett threw the ball to running back Kenny King at the 39-yard line as he was scrambling around in the backfield to avoid being sacked.

In 1976, Henderson graduated from Oakland Technical High School, where he played baseball, basketball and football, and was an All-American running back with a pair of 1, 000-yard rushing seasons.

Finch touched down in 18 countries before finishing the trip two and a half months later when she arrived back at Oakland Airport on May 28, 1997.

Among the team's players were the XFL's most well-known, Rod Smart ( later with the National Football League's Philadelphia Eagles, Carolina Panthers, and the Oakland Raiders ), who went by the nickname of " He Hate Me ", which appeared on the back of his jersey.

Getting off to a bad start, many fans questioned the decision of general manager Theo Epstein, but after coming off of the DL and getting rocked in his first start back in Oakland — and changing his uniform number from 3 to 16-David Wells became the same dominating pitcher he was in the past.

In 1991, the Twins got back on the winning track and Puckett led the way by batting. 319, eighth in the league and Minnesota surged past Oakland midseason to capture the division title.

After an injury-plagued 1971 season in which the team finished fifth, the Reds came back and won another pennant under Anderson in 1972, beating the Pittsburgh Pirates in the NLCS, but losing to the Oakland Athletics in the World Series.

* Darren McFadden, Oakland Raiders running back

* Pete Banaszak, NFL player and running back for the Oakland Raiders

After moving back to Oakland, California in 1995, the Raiders suffered sub-par seasons, including a 4-12 record in 1997.

Later in the period, a 17-yard punt return by Raiders defensive back Darrien Gordon gave Oakland the ball at their own 49-yard line.

Fortunately for Tampa Bay, they got a big assist from their punter Tom Tupa, who managed to pin Oakland all the way back at their own 11-yard line with his punt.

Paul Burce had quit his job of 14 years to move to Oakland, and was unable to get it back when they returned.

Tony's son, Anthony also played football at the University of Pittsburgh and played defensive back in the NFL from 1996 to 2003, making Super Bowl appearances with the Tennessee Titans ( Super Bowl XXXIV ) and Oakland Raiders ( Super Bowl XXXVII ).

Next, back as leader again, Hines took his own small combos around the States and Europe but, at the start of the jazz-lean 1960s and old enough now to retire and take up bowling, Hines settled " home " in Oakland, California, with his wife and two young daughters, Janear and Tosca, opened a tobacconist's and came close to giving up the profession.

Haren was 15 – 9 with a 3. 07 ERA for Oakland in 2007.

Double-decked or double-decker bridges have two levels, such as the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge, with two road levels.

Walsh began his pro coaching career in 1966 as an assistant with the AFL's Oakland Raiders.

The 1976 season brought Reggie Jackson and Ken Holtzman from a trade with Oakland, but the Orioles only won 88 games.

In January 1981, the two teams faced off in the NFC Championship, with Philadelphia winning 20 – 7 ( The Eagles subsequently lost to the Oakland Raiders in Super Bowl XV ).

The Greater Oakland Professional Pigskin Prognosticators League began in the early 1960s with eight teams.

* John-Ford Griffin ( born 1979 ), American Major League Baseball outfielder ; drafted by New York Yankees in 2001 ; with Oakland Athletics in 2002

Though by the close of the 1989 season the team boasted a powerhouse bullpen in the AL Cy Young Award winner Bret Saberhagen ( set franchise record with 23 wins in ), two time All-Star Mark Gubicza ( 15 game winner in 1989 ) and 1989 AL Rookie of the Year runner-up Tom Gordon ( won 17 games in 1989 ), the organization felt they were still missing a few pieces that would give the divisional rivals Oakland Athletics a run for their money.

When Atwood and other core members of the SLA were killed in 1974 during a standoff with police near Watts, California following their murder of the Oakland school superintendent, the Soliahs organized memorial rallies, including a rally in Berkeley's Ho Chi Minh Park where Soliah spoke in support of her friend Atwood, while being covertly filmed by the FBI.

They entered the American League along with the Kansas City Royals as part of a hasty round of expansion triggered by the Kansas City Athletics ' move to Oakland.

Mark David McGwire ( born October 1, 1963 ), nicknamed " Big Mac ", is an American former professional baseball player who played his major league career with the Oakland Athletics and the St. Louis Cardinals.

Upon the formation of the American Football League, the Jets developed a heated rivalry with the Oakland Raiders.

Currently, the team wears home uniforms with " Athletics " spelled out in script writing and road uniforms with " Oakland " spelled out in script writing, with the cap logo consisting of the traditional " A " with " apostrophe-s ." The home cap is green with a gold bill and white lettering, while the road cap, debuting in 1994, is all green with gold lettering.

According to Bill Libby's Book, Charlie O and the Angry A's, owner Charlie O. Finley banned the word " Athletics " from the club's name because he felt that name was too closely associated with former Philadelphia Athletics owner Connie Mack, and he wanted the name " Oakland A's " to become just as closely associated with him.

The bucolic view of the Oakland foothills that baseball spectators enjoyed was replaced with a jarring view of an outfield grandstand contemptuously referred to as " Mount Davis " after Raiders ' owner Al Davis.

Clemens most explosive postseason failure came in the second inning of the final game of the 1990 ALCS against the Oakland Athletics, when he was ejected for arguing balls and strikes with umpire Terry Cooney, putting a dismal stamp on an A's sweep.

In 2000, after losing two division series games to Oakland, Clemens pitched his most spectacular game as a Yankee in the ALCS against the Seattle Mariners: a complete game one-hit shutout with an ALCS-record 15 strikeouts.

During a 1956 radio interview with Sydney Rogers in West Oakland several months after her arrest, Parks said she had decided, " I would have to know for once and for all what rights I had as a human being and a citizen.