
The Oakland Athletics are a Major League Baseball team and one of the league’s oldest franchises. Presently they play in Oakland Coliseum in Oakland, California. The team logo is a green, white, and yellow, and features the phrase “A’s”.
Notable Oakland Athletics of past and present include Reggie Jackson, Catfish hunter, Rollie Fingers, Dennis Eckersley, Mark McGuire, and Jose Canseco. They play in the American League West Division with such teams as the
Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim,
Seattle Mariners, and
Texas Rangers. Their last World Series victory was in 1989 against the
San Francisco Giants.