Wrong. Finley said that every player should become free agents at the end of the season. No multi year contracts. He wanted to keep player salaries low.
very informative video on the Oakland A's. I lived in the east bay during that time & got to see the greatest team! I am both an A's & Giant's fan. Born n raised in San Mateo area.
Fingers was a Padre before he joined the Brewers. The team appeared ready to move to Denver in the late 1970s due to the low attendance cited. However, Finley had one final move up his sleeve, hiring Billy Martin as his final manager. The team became popular, drawing more fans in the strike-shortened 1981 season than in any of the championship seasons of the 70s.
Rollie was traded to the Red Sox. Kuhn nixed the deal, then Rollie went to the Padres. When Whitey Herzog was the Mgr/G.M/. of the Cards, he acquired Rollie, then we traded him to the Brewers (along with C Ted Simmons).
Great place to watch a game!!!! Behind dugouts, sections 214 all the way around homeplate to the A's 3rd base dugout are GREAT! Going to miss the A's leaving Oakland.... It was affordable to watch a baseball game in todays day in age of player salaries...
As soon as the team picture was taken Vida Blue sprinted to the clubhouse and shaved, Finley tried to get him to change his name to True Blue so Vida told him to change his name to True Finley.
You need to fact check your trades from the mid 70's. You were wrong on most of what you said. It was Joe Rudy & Rollie Fingers to the Red Sox, Vida Blue was traded to the Yankees. Both trades were overturned. Rollie Fingers went on to win AL MVP in 1981 with Milwaukee
Just for his innovations alone R we sure he's Not? He was like the AL Davis of baseball genius wise butt could've learned a lesson about PlayerLove from AL
They were really good. If not for free agency the A's of 70's would have probably won at least 6 or 7 WS titles in that decade. At would have played in that many . They became a national sensation like the Raiders were at same time it's shame that city of Oakland lost these two incredible franchises.
Most people in country especially in East and Southeast part of US cannot understand how in the world that could have happened. Especially in SE where sports is huge and supported by the people big time look at the success of SEC in every sport unreal especially college football.
lowkey all of charles o finley ideas kinda hit . who wouldnt want to play with an orange ball as a batter , pinch runner if your a catcher and 3 Ball Walks just make sense
If they kept this team together would they have won more championships, let's not forget they were still in their prime, plus they had good players coming up in the farm system.
All I no is The A'$ & Dodgers have always had the best farm systems ALL my life & the A'$ had the 1$t ever draft pick RickMonday who later played for the Dodgers
Free agency has damaged baseball. When I was growing up in the late 60s-early 70s if you had a favorite team you could follow that team and know their players but with free agency each year the team roster would usually completely change by the spring and it was hard to form a bond with any player/team.
Flood also felt deeply that the Reserve Clause was morally and fundamentally wrong, and was willing to risk never playing again in order to challenge it.
@@georgesouthwick7000 He was right is was morally and fundamentally wrong. Since when should one be forced to work for only one company. If you and I decide we no longer want to work for the company we in, we give our notices and go work somewhere else. And with Flood it was never about the money. After all he was whole life was in St. Louis. I never understood why they wanted to trade him in the first place. Maybe the felt he was near the end and was a declining asset and wanted to get something for him. The cards did not show him much loyalty after all he played a big part in those two championships of 64 and 67,
Oh wow! I was under the impression that the A's dominated the 70s but I guess they just dominated the early seventies.. I did not expect them to hate the owner so badly although they had very good reason to hate him since he was being so cheap. That's really sad that the a seem to have like this history of cheap owners. Of course I'd say things were different during the 1980s especially when they won the world series in 1989 because believe it or not the Oakland A's in 1989 had the highest payroll in the mlb. Over the last 20 years or so they've basically been in the bottom three payrolls
Walter Haas owned the A’s in the 1980’s, he really loved the team. He made the A’s a juggernaut, they would outsell the Yankees. Haas would pass away in the mid 1990’s
@@sdeepj if only they held on to ownership like that. Maybe the A's would have found a way to stay in Oakland because of continued success and continuing to keep their best players. Maybe they would have found a way despite the promise the city of Oakland has.
Even before free agency. The heart attack of the late Charles Oscar Finley started the decline. Reggie Jackson or 1 of the other players said that. The owner was not the same after that. The Mike Andrews incident led the late Dick Williams to resign and join the California Angels 😇. 2B Dick Green retired. Phil Garner and Manny Trillo took some slow 🐌 years before they reached their peaks ⛰. They wete already in other clubs by then. Had Finley traded Catfish in the 1973 offseason for Steve Carlton, Wilbur Wood, Ferguson Jenkins, Gaylord Perry, Nolan Ryan or the late Tom Seaver, the dynasty would have continued. Aside. MC Hammer 🔨, Mrs Fields and Tom Hanks worked at the Coliseum in those years. Rickey Henderson saw 👀 some of those games. This was before the Athletics drafted him out of Oakland Tech.
Two words killed this team- Curt Flood Once real free agency started even if Finley wasn't a cheap bastard he still wouldn't have been able to keep this team together.
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Free agency destroyed the team. Finley would have traded away the entire team rather than lose them all for nothing.
Finley didn’t have to lose the players….he could have just paid them.
@@georgesouthwick7000 Steinbrenner and Ted Turner were the first owners to embrace free agency. None of the old school owners were going to touch it.
Wrong. Finley said that every player should become free agents at the end of the season. No multi year contracts. He wanted to keep player salaries low.
My grandfather sold insurance with Finley and ended up being a General Manager for the Kansas city As in the early sixty's
Did your grandfather like Finley or did he say he was a jerk.
very informative video on the Oakland A's. I lived in the east bay during that time & got to see the greatest team! I am both an A's & Giant's fan. Born n raised in San Mateo area.
It's amazing to still remember all those names and not be able to name 1 player on current A's roster
Fingers was a Padre before he joined the Brewers.
The team appeared ready to move to Denver in the late 1970s due to the low attendance cited. However, Finley had one final move up his sleeve, hiring Billy Martin as his final manager. The team became popular, drawing more fans in the strike-shortened 1981 season than in any of the championship seasons of the 70s.
Rollie was traded to the Red Sox. Kuhn nixed the deal, then Rollie went
to the Padres.
When Whitey Herzog was the Mgr/G.M/. of the Cards, he acquired Rollie,
then we traded him to the Brewers (along with C Ted Simmons).
Billy Martin was a Local guy born in Berkeley
Gene Tenace was also on the Padres with Fingers Bando was on the Brewers also
Great video! Please normalize the audio.
Rollie Fingers didn't get traded to the Brewers,did you forget the four years in San Diego ?
Great place to watch a game!!!! Behind dugouts, sections 214 all the way around homeplate to the A's 3rd base dugout are GREAT! Going to miss the A's leaving Oakland.... It was affordable to watch a baseball game in todays day in age of player salaries...
As soon as the team picture was taken Vida Blue sprinted to the clubhouse and shaved, Finley tried to get him to change his name to True Blue so Vida told him to change his name to True Finley.
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Ironically, the man responded for building the dynasty, Charles O. Finley was also responsible for tearing it down.
He called the first free agents, "den of thieves".
They were the baseball equivalent to the Philadelphia Flyers " broad street bullies" of the same years/era.
You need to fact check your trades from the mid 70's. You were wrong on most of what you said. It was Joe Rudy & Rollie Fingers to the Red Sox, Vida Blue was traded to the Yankees. Both trades were overturned. Rollie Fingers went on to win AL MVP in 1981 with Milwaukee
Another gem
Say what you will about Charlie Finley, he still should be in the Hall of Fame.
@darryljorden9177 Couldn't agree with you more, but it probably wont happen.
When Charlie Finley bought the team , while still in KC they no longer became a trading partner with the Yankees
Just for his innovations alone R we sure he's Not? He was like the AL Davis of baseball genius wise butt could've learned a lesson about PlayerLove from AL
Charlie was like the AlDavis of Baseball butt should've learned a Lesson about PlayerLove from AL Also!
They were really good. If not for free agency the A's of 70's would have probably won at least 6 or 7 WS titles in that decade. At would have played in that many . They became a national sensation like the Raiders were at same time it's shame that city of Oakland lost these two incredible franchises.
Most people in country especially in East and Southeast part of US cannot understand how in the world that could have happened. Especially in SE where sports is huge and supported by the people big time look at the success of SEC in every sport unreal especially college football.
lowkey all of charles o finley ideas kinda hit . who wouldnt want to play with an orange ball as a batter , pinch runner if your a catcher and 3 Ball Walks just make sense
All of those ideas are extremely stupid. Like unbelievably stupid.
If they kept this team together would they have won more championships, let's not forget they were still in their prime, plus they had good players coming up in the farm system.
Of course but business took over
All I no is The A'$ & Dodgers have always had the best farm systems ALL my life & the A'$ had the 1$t ever draft pick RickMonday who later played for the Dodgers
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RIP.... Charlie O. 🫏
My Idol at First Base, Willie Montañez was sent to The Philadelphia Phillies in place of Curt Flood
Free agency has damaged baseball. When I was growing up in the late 60s-early 70s if you had a favorite team you could follow that team and know their players but with free agency each year the team roster would usually completely change by the spring and it was hard to form a bond with any player/team.
A $300 bonus to grow a mustache-oh boy! Even in 1972 that was only about $2,000. That's an insult to those mega-talented players.
The real reason why Flood did not want to go to Philadelphia was because his life and home in St. Louis. Not because he hated the city.
My grandfather was a good friend of Curt Flood in Oakland
Flood also felt deeply that the Reserve Clause was morally and fundamentally wrong, and was willing to risk never playing again in order to challenge it.
@@georgesouthwick7000 He was right is was morally and fundamentally wrong. Since when should one be forced to work for only one company. If you and I decide we no longer want to work for the company we in, we give our notices and go work somewhere else. And with Flood it was never about the money. After all he was whole life was in St. Louis. I never understood why they wanted to trade him in the first place. Maybe the felt he was near the end and was a declining asset and wanted to get something for him. The cards did not show him much loyalty after all he played a big part in those two championships of 64 and 67,
As an A’s fan, I love and hate Charlie. Heat still better than Fisher
Oh wow! I was under the impression that the A's dominated the 70s but I guess they just dominated the early seventies.. I did not expect them to hate the owner so badly although they had very good reason to hate him since he was being so cheap. That's really sad that the a seem to have like this history of cheap owners. Of course I'd say things were different during the 1980s especially when they won the world series in 1989 because believe it or not the Oakland A's in 1989 had the highest payroll in the mlb. Over the last 20 years or so they've basically been in the bottom three payrolls
Walter Haas owned the A’s in the 1980’s, he really loved the team. He made the A’s a juggernaut, they would outsell the Yankees. Haas would pass away in the mid 1990’s
@@sdeepj if only they held on to ownership like that. Maybe the A's would have found a way to stay in Oakland because of continued success and continuing to keep their best players. Maybe they would have found a way despite the promise the city of Oakland has.
Can u talk baseball forever please
Even before free agency. The heart attack of the late Charles Oscar Finley started the decline. Reggie Jackson or 1 of the other players said that. The owner was not the same after that.
The Mike Andrews incident led the late Dick Williams to resign and join the California Angels 😇.
2B Dick Green retired. Phil Garner and Manny Trillo took some slow 🐌 years before they reached their peaks ⛰. They wete already in other clubs by then.
Had Finley traded Catfish in the 1973 offseason for Steve Carlton, Wilbur Wood, Ferguson Jenkins, Gaylord Perry, Nolan Ryan or the late Tom Seaver, the dynasty would have continued.
Aside. MC Hammer 🔨, Mrs Fields and Tom Hanks worked at the Coliseum in those years. Rickey Henderson saw 👀 some of those games. This was before the Athletics drafted him out of Oakland Tech.
Two words killed this team- Curt Flood
Once real free agency started even if Finley wasn't a cheap bastard he still wouldn't have been able to keep this team together.
Who ironically and poetically, was from Oakland.
Mc hammer the snitch 😂