Oakland Athletics
The Oakland Athletics are an American baseball club from Oakland, California. The club was founded in 1901 as the Philadelphia Athletics. The team has been based in Oakland since 1968. The Athletics play their games in Major League Baseball. The club competes in the Western Division of the American League.
Rickey Henderson
Rickey Henderson is the greatest leadoff hitter of all time. His talent for getting on base and stealing bases, and his enormous passion for the game, made him great. He is Major League Baseball's all-time leader in walks, runs, stolen bases and leadoff home runs. His awards include ten All-Star selections, a Gold Glove and an MVP award.
Oakland Athletics history
One of the eight charter franchises of the American League, the club was founded in 1901 in Philadelphia as the Philadelphia Athletics. They won three World Series championships, in 1910, 1911 and 1913, and back-to-back titles in 1929 and 1930. The team left Philadelphia for Kansas City in 1955 and became the Kansas City Athletics before moving to Oakland in 1968. Nicknamed the "Swingin' A's", they won three consecutive World Series in 1972, 1973 and 1974. After the Golden State Warriors moved across the bay to San Francisco in 2019 and the Raiders moved to Las Vegas in 2020, the Athletics became the only franchise in the five major American professional sports leagues in the San Francisco Bay Area to play in Oakland.