Dynastic, Bombastic, Fantastic: Reggie, Rollie, Catfish, and Charlie Finley's Swingin' A's By Jason Turbow

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“An exciting and engrossing book with stories that are worth telling. This work will engage fans of Charlie O. Finley and the Oakland Athletics, along with anyone captivated by baseball history.” — Library Journal, starred review The Oakland A’s of the early 1970s: Never before had an entire organization so collectively traumatized baseball’s establishment with its outlandish behavior and business decisions. The high drama that played out on the field—five straight division titles and three straight championships—was exceeded only by the drama in the clubhouse and front office. Under the visionary leadership of owner Charles O. Finley, the team assembled such luminary figures as Reggie Jackson, Catfish Hunter, Rollie Fingers, and Vida Blue, and with garish uniforms and revolutionary facial hair, knocked baseball into the modern age. Finley’s insatiable need for control—he was his own general manager and dictated everything from the ballpark organist’s playlist to the menu for the media lounge—made him ill-suited for the advent of free agency. Within two years, his dynasty was lost. A sprawling, brawling history of one of the game’s most unforgettable teams, Dynastic, Bombastic, Fantastic is a paean to the sport’s most turbulent, magical team, during one of major league baseball’s most turbulent, magical times.

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I grew up an avid baseball fan and liked watching the Oakland A's baseball team because they looked different in their green, yellow and white uniforms and had moustaches, beards, and sideburns. They were the creation of a baseball genius, an innovator but also a self-promoter and a narcissist - Charlie Finley. They also could play better than the other teams because they maximized their talents playing like one and for awhile seemed unbeatable. I still remember most of them: Jim 'Catfish' Hunter, Ken Holtzman, John 'Blue Moon' Odom, Vida Blue, Darold Knowles, Rollie Fingers, Dave Duncan, Gene Tenace, Ray Fosse, Mike Epstein, Dick Green, Bert Campaneris, Sal Bando, Mike Andrews, Joe Rudi, Reggie Jackson, Billy North, Herb Washington and Claudell Washington. I also recall the most successful of the managers during the 1971-75 dominant years, Dick Williams and Alvin Dark. But the man who in 1961 bought and moved the Kansas City Athletics to Oakland and re-labeled them the A's was the tyrannical, meglomaniacal and temperamental Charles O. Finley. Finley could not abide with anyone telling him how to scout, recruit, develop, or treat his players so he made himself the general manager at the onset. There was no denying, Finley was an astute evaluator of talent and an architect of winning baseball teams. But, he was also a destructive force who often undermined his managers, insulted his players, stole the spotlight for himself and was exceedingly undervaluing and underpaying his players. His intrusive and emotional outbursts resulted in the destroying the winning A's of the early-1970s. Amazingly, from the destruction and terrible team of the latter-1970s, he laid the groundwork of future success with the drafting of such players as Mike Norris, Rickey Henderson, Tony Armas, Dwayne Murphy, Matt Keough, and Rick Langford for the 1980s. In 1980, he also hired Billy Martin who would lead the revival of the A's after Finley sold the team to the Levi Strauss family in 1980. Finley sold the team because of his divorce and not because he wanted out. The author pulls no in laying praise and blame on Finley for the drama that the A's franchise was in the 1970s. He also gives the reader an insight into each of the players who made up that "dynastic, bombastic, and fantastic" A's team. It was a nostalgic and insightful baseball book. Personally, I rank it as one of the best baseball books that I have ever read. Enjoy the ride.

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