This Day in Sports History: Dodgers win it all
digitalsportsdaily.com 10/21/2009 — By Travis Duncan October 20th, 1988 The Los Angeles Dodgers win the 85th World Series, beating the Oakland A’s 5-2 in Game 5. The Dodgers beat the A’s 5-2 in Game 5, on the efforts of Orel Hershiser who pitched a complete game, allowing only four hits, two runs, and ...

Scrapbook Memories: 1989 World Series, Game 3, Part 2
inhistoric.com 16 days ago — Scrapbook Memories celebrates the 20th anniversary of Oakland's last World Series triumph.  Since the day they set foot in Arizona some seven months prior, the A's mission for 1989 was clear; a wildly successful 1988 season had ended with a thud, leaving a sour taste in their collective ...

Throwback Uniforms: A's and White Sox (1929)
inhistoric.com 15 days ago — On August 16th, the Oakland Athletics celebrated the 80th anniversary of the 1929 Philadelphia Athletics, who won the World Series, by dressing up in their old uniforms from the '29 season. $18 outfield tickets were dropped to $9.29, $30 box seats were dropped to $19.29, and 10,000 fans ...

Swept Away
sportsillustrated.cnn.com 16 days ago — 1989 Swept Away As Part II of the World Series began, the Bay Area was recovering from the quake. Then the A's rocked the Giants twice to complete their sweep by Steve Wulf THEIRS WAS A CELEBRATION AS UNIQUE and classy as they were.The Oakland ...

Who Do You Want To Be A 2010 Athletic?
athleticsnation.com 9/30/2009 — HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my baseballdad! Love you! AN General Consensus on 2010 starting pitching: Weed out the best starters from this season and call it a rotation. See if Duchscherer can/will come back. Maybe add a veteran starter. AN General ...

Dodgers outfield situation...
metsfever.blogspot.com 17 days ago — Because the Dodgers outfield situation could impact the Mets in several different ways, I wanted to recap several points of interest that have occurred the last 24 hours. The biggest item is Manny Ramirez will exercises his 20M player option and return to the Dodgers for the 2010 season ( ...

Contents Under Pressure: The Los Angeles Dodgers
bizofbaseball.com 10/23/2009 — Tune in, folks. You’re witnessing the beginnings of a complete implosion of one of baseball’s most storied franchises. The center of the collapse unfolding is not centered on bad contracts, or controversial comments, ala Marge Schott or Al Campanis. No, the collapse of the Los Angeles ...

The World Series of Wage Supremacy
thesportsgeeks.com 19 days ago — Before the 2009 Major League playoffs officially started, I was listening to ESPN Radio and Bud Selig was being interviewed on the Mike and Mike in the Morning show about the season and the upcoming post-season action. At one point he was asked about a salary cap as well as an international ...

Bailey captures AL rookie award
mlb.mlb.com 8 days ago — By Mychael Urban / MLB.com 11/16/09 2:31 PM EST OAKLAND -- A's right-hander Andrew Bailey's rise from Minor League obscurity to Major League limelight turned historic Monday when he was named the 2009 American League Rookie of the Year. Moved from ...

Blogging the Offseason: Los Angeles Dodgers
simononsports.blogspot.com 12 days ago — Blogging the Offseason is a 30 team series in which I ask a blogging representative from each MLB team a series of ten questions about their desires and thoughts surrounding the offseason. Check out all of them here . Today's NL team is the Los ...