In the early 1970s, Oakland won three World Series titles from 1972 – 1974, and after the A's left Kansas City under less than honorable terms, a strong rivalry existed between the two teams during this period.

In 2002, the A's won 20 games in a row, which broke an AL record, as shown in the film Moneyball.

The Giants experienced some hard luck in the early 1910s, losing three straight World Series starting in 1911 to the A's, the Red Sox, and the A's again ( the Giants and the A's both won pennants in 1913 ; two seasons later, both teams finished in eighth place ).

But when Texas lost its last game before the players ' strike began, the Oakland A's won the A. L.

In sports, the Oakland Athletics MLB club won three consecutive World Series championships in 1972, 1973, and 1974, in addition to three consecutive World Series appearances from 1988 to 1990 ; the A's won the 1989 contest.

The A's won the World Series again in 1974, defeating the Los Angeles Dodgers in five games.

The A's won the Division again in 1975, but the loss of pitcher Catfish Hunter, baseball's first modern free agent, left them vulnerable, and they were swept in the ALCS by the Boston Red Sox.

They would not make the playoffs again until they won the World Series in by sweeping the heavily favored Oakland A's.

Martin won the American League West Division title in the split season of, swept the Kansas City Royals in the special division series ( due to a players ' strike-action ), and then met the Yankees in the 1981 ALCS where his A's were swept by the Yankees.

In October of that year, Kansas City A's team owner Charlie Finley finally won approval from Major League Baseball to move the Kansas City Athletics to Oakland, California and out of the aging Municipal Stadium and its inner city neighborhood.

* July 16: Fidrych won his 10th game, a 1-0 victory over the A's with 45, 905 in attendance at Tiger Stadium.

In his first season in Italy, Charles was Serie A's top scorer with 28 goals, and was voted player of the season as Juventus won the Scudetto.

Other players complained about Rube's lack of dependable behavior, and following the 1907 season he had ended as the goat of a series that cost the A's the pennant won by the Detroit Tigers, Mack finally lost patience with him and sold Waddell to the St. Louis Browns for $ 5, 000.

A deadly clutch hitter and a favorite of manager Connie Mack, Simmons won batting titles in and to help the A's to consecutive pennants.

The A's won the AL pennant again going 102-52 and defeated the St. Louis Cardinals to win the back to back World Series titles.

In 1931 the A's won their third straight AL pennant by 13. 5 games over the Yankees going 107-45.

In the 1973 American League Championship Series, in which the A's defeated the Baltimore Orioles, he led off Game 2 with a home run, and won Game 3 with a leadoff home run in the 11th inning ; in Game 7 of that year's World Series against the New York Mets, both he and Reggie Jackson hit two-run home runs in the third inning off Jon Matlack — the only two home runs Oakland would hit the entire series.

The Stars won the Southern League Championship in 1985 and 1994 as the Double-A affiliate of the Oakland A's and in 2001 with the Brewers.

Terry Steinbach won the MVP award in 1986 solidifying the base of the A's Championship teams of the late 1980s.

In 1990, the A's won their third straight pennant, beating the Boston Red Sox in the American League Championship Series, and Stewart was named the ALCS MVP going 2-0 with a 1. 13 ERA.

A's outfielder Willie McGee won a batting title that year, but it wasn't the AL batting title.

He earned two additional Manager of the Year awards with the A's, in 1988 and 1992, again winning the Western Division in the latter year.

After a poor start, with a sole point in an entire championship, Napoli was readmitted to Serie A's forerunner National Division by the Italian FA, and began to improve thanks in part to Paraguayan-born Attila Sallustro, who was the first fully fledged hero to the fans.

Ellis missed most of the A's 2006 post-season due to a hand injury suffered during Game 2 of the American League Division Series against the Minnesota Twins.

He played in four games in the 2000 American League Division Series against the Oakland A's and was 1 for 12 with 2 runs batted in.

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.

Holtzman had an 18 – 14 record for the 1975 A's as they again won the American League's Western Division.

) The Red Sox made the playoffs and Walker stepped up his performance again ; he hit. 313 with three homers in the American League Division Series against the Oakland A's, and. 370 with two more homers and hits in every game against the New York Yankees in the ALCS.

The A's have claimed more Cape League Regular Season ( 7 ) and Post-Season ( 7 ) Eastern Division titles than any other team, their last of which came in 2001 when they lost the championship series to the Wareham Gatemen.

He again performed well in the World Series (. 333 batting,. 667 slugging, a home run and three steals in four games ), but the A's were swept by the underdog Cincinnati Reds.

The A's returned to the World Series once again, but were swept by the Cincinnati Reds in four games.

Following an unsuccessful return with the A's in, Canseco did have a productive season again with the Toronto Blue Jays in, when he hit 46 home runs and stole 29 bases, the most he had stolen since the 40 he stole in 1988.

The pitchers for those games were Ferguson Jenkins ( 1 for 2, a single ) on October 2, 1974 for the Texas Rangers at Minnesota, Ken Holtzman ( 0 for 2 ) for the Oakland A's against the California Angels on September 27, 1975, Ken Brett for the Chicago White Sox on July 6, 1976 at the Boston Red Sox, and again on September 23, 1976 for Chicago against the Twins.

The A's fined Kingman $ 3, 500 and warned that he would be released if a similar incident occurred again.

The team moved again to Ottawa, Ontario to become the Ottawa Giants in 1951 and renamed Ottawa Athletics ( Ottawa A's ) in 1952.

The A's moved after the 1975 season to Chattanooga and Rickwood did not see Southern League baseball again for 5 seasons.

With Boston down three games to none, the two faced off again in Game Four with Stewart and the A's again emerging victorious to complete the sweep.

After the C & A's assets were acquired by the Pennsylvania Railroad ( PRR ) in 1871, the PRR refurbished and operated the locomotive a few times for public displays: it was steamed up for the Centennial Exposition in 1876 and again for the National Railway Appliance Exhibition in 1883.

He guided the A's to a third straight championship in 1974, joining managers Joe McCarthy and Yogi Berra by winning pennants in both leagues, but was again fired after losing the 1975 American League Championship Series.

The A's went on to lose Games 4 and 6 as well and Darling never again pitched in the postseason.

Gallego closed out his career with the Cardinals in 1996 and 1997, where he once again played under Tony La Russa, his manager while with the A's.

The A's Manager Bob Geren demoted him from the closing role once again in May 2011, reportedly due to performance issues.