Table of Contents Page Chapter Chapter Page Meet the A’s 4 Glory Days 6 Home Turf 12 Dressed for Success 14 We Won 16 Go-To Guys 20 Calling the Shots 24 One Great Day 26 Legend Has It 28 It Really Happened 30 Team Spirit 32 Timeline 34 Fun Facts 36 Talking Baseball 38 Great Debates 40 For the Record 42 Pinpoints 44 Glossary 46 Extra Innings 47 Index 48 ABOUT OUR GLOSSARY In this book there may be several words that you are reading for the first time Some are sports words some are new vocabulary words and some are familiar words that are used in an unusual way All of these words are defined on page 46 Throughout the book sports words appear in bold type Regular vocabulary words appear in bold italic type
Meet the A’s U sually in baseball when one team finds a winning formula other clubs try to do the same thing The Oakland Athletics Athletics or A’s for short like to be unique They search for talent ent where other teams never think to look They do things that t make opponents scratch their heads And when other teams try to copy the A’s they rarely do it as well That has been true for a very long time longer than the team has been playing in California Since the team started more than a century ago the A’s have been determined to do things their own way As the old saying goes you can’t argue with success This book tells the story of the A’s They are one of baseball’s l’s longest-running success stories The team is not afraid to try new new things But that’s only part of the story The A’s also win because they know how to play baseball the old-fashioned way Coco Crisp gets a hand from coach Mike Gallego after a home run Gallego was a member of Oakland’s 1989 championship team 5
