We continue to review the “Baseball bookshelf 2017” series. Free agency would eventually disrupt all clubs, but its earliest victims may have been the Oakland A’s.
“Dynastic, Bombastic, Fantastic” by Jason Turbow, recounts the team’s early-1970s dominance, when it won three straight World Series with a lineup that included Reggie Jackson, Joe Rudi and Sal Bando and a pitching staff anchored by Catfish Hunter, Vida Blue and Rollie Fingers. By 1976, free agency broke up the squad, and the club’s owner, a sympathetically drawn Charlie Finley, would sell it a few years later.
Read more about new baseball books in our next publications.
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