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Dynastic, bombastic, fantastic : Reggie, Rollie, Catfish, and Charlie Finley's swingin' A's / Jason Turbow.
- Title
- Dynastic, bombastic, fantastic : Reggie, Rollie, Catfish, and Charlie Finley's swingin' A's / Jason Turbow.
- Author
- Turbow, Jason
- Publication
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017.
- ©2017
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | GV875.O24 T67 2017 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xiv, 386 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "How the Oakland A's of the 1970s--a revolutionary band of brawling Hall of Famers--won three straight championships and knocked baseball into the modern age"--Dust jacket flap.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- History.
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 348-371) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Part 1: Ascendance 1961-1971 -- Welcome to Oakland -- The owner -- Part 2: Pinnacle 1972-1974 -- Vida's blues -- Sweet smell of success -- Teetering in Tiger Town -- World Series, 1972 -- Springtime for champions -- Defending your flag -- Beating the birds -- Scapegoat nation -- Wherefore Williams? -- Another run -- Hello, Hollywood...Goodbye, Catfish (prelude) -- Catfish gone -- Part 3: Descent 1975-1980 -- Retool -- Housecleaning -- Long slope down.
- ISBN
- 9780544303171
- 0544303172
- LCCN
- ^^2016043921
- OCLC
- 953744159
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library