Before the Oakland Athletics move out of the Coliseum after this season, members of their 1974 team returned Sunday in honor of winning the franchise’s third straight World Series.
Former Oakland Athletics pitcher Rollie Fingers, center, is introduced during a ceremony for the 1974 Athletics team that won the World Series, Sunday, June 23, 2024, before a baseball game against the Minnesota Twins in Oakland, Calif. OAKLAND – Rollie Fingers strode to the Coliseum’s pitching mound Sunday and relived throwing the final pitch that touched off the A’s third straight World Series celebration 50 years ago.
“It’s going to be sad to see it go. I’m sure a lot of Oakland fans don’t want to see it go,” Fingers said in an exclusive interview with this news organization before the game. “They should have built a ballpark right next door here in the parking lot four or five years ago and they wouldn’t have this problem.”
“The park, to me, is still a great looking park,” outfielder Joe Rudi said. “If only they could pick up the whole thing and move it. There used to have a military base out in Pleasanton . They should have tried to buy that because that would have been a perfect place.” A Ford Thunderbird caravan delivered alumni to Sunday’s pregame ceremony: Fingers, Rudi, Washington, Bert Campaneris, Gene Tenace, Dick Green, Billy North, Ted Kubiak, Blue Moon Odom, Dave Hamilton, Darold Knowles, and Paul Finley, son of former-A’s owner Charlie Finley. Honored in memoriam on the Coliseum’s video boards were 10 players and five coaches, with the crowd applauding loudest for the late Hunter, Sal Bando, Claudell Washington, Ray Fosse and Vida Blue.
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