On September 25, 1965, Satchel Paige of the Kansas City A’s became the oldest man to appear in a major league game. Paige, believed to be 59 years old, makes his first major league appearance since 1953 and hurls three shutout innings of relief against the Boston Red Sox. Paige strikeout one batter…
On June 8, 1965, the Kansas City A’s select collegiate star Rick Monday with the initial pick of the first-ever amateur free agent draft. Picking second, the Mets take pitcher Les Rohr. Future Hall of Famer Johnny Bench is taken by the Cincinnati Reds in the second round. Another Hall of Famer, Nolan Ryan, is…
On July 23, 1964, at Metropolitan Stadium Kansas City A’s shortstop Bert Campaneris hits two home runs in his major league debut. He rips home run on the first pitch he sees from Minnesota’s Jim Kaat, and belts another home run in the seventh inning, a two run shot that tied the game. The A’s…
On January 16, 1964, American League owners vote down Charlie Finley’s proposed move of the Kansas City A’s to Louisville. The owners, who vote 9-1 against the proposal, also tell Finley the maverick owner is given an ultimatum to sign a lease in Kansas City by February 1 or lose his franchise. Ten days…
On January 6, 1964 Kansas City A’s owner Charlie Finley stuns Kansas City when he announces that he has signed a two-year deal to move the team to Louisville to play at the city’s Fairgrounds Stadium, having the state of Kentucky’s promise to spend a half-a-million dollars on enlarging the 20,628-seat facility by…
On November 18, 1963, the Detroit Tigers trade outfielder Rocky Colavito and pitcher Bob Anderson to the Kansas City A’s and a reported $50,000 for second baseman Jerry Lumpe and pitchers Dave Wickersham and Ed Rakow. Colavito will hit 34 home runs and drive in 102 runs for the A’s in 1964 and will be…
On July 13, 1963, Early Wynn of the Cleveland Indians wins the 300th – and final – game of his major league career. The 43-year-old Wynn, who had failed in seven previous attempts at the milestone, pitches the first five innings of a 7-4 win over the Kansas City A’s.@ET-DC@eyJkeW5hbWljIjp0cnVlLCJjb250ZW50IjoicG9zdF90YWdzIiwic2V0dGluZ3MiOnsiYmVmb3JlIjoiTGVhcm4gTW9yZSBhYm91dCB0aGUgdGVhbXMsIHBsYXllcnMsIGJhbGwgcGFya3MgYW5kIGV2ZW50cyB0aGF0IGhhcHBlbmVkIG9uIHRoaXMgZGF0ZSBpbiBoaXN0b3J5IC0gLSAtIC0gLSAtIC0gIiwiYWZ0ZXIiOiIiLCJsaW5rX3RvX3Rlcm1fcGFnZSI6Im9uIiwic2VwYXJhdG9yIjoiIHwgIiwiY2F0ZWdvcnlfdHlwZSI6InBvc3RfdGFnIn19@ Cleveland Indians 7, Kansas…
At Yankee Stadium, New York blows a 7 – 0 lead and allows Kansas City to tie the game and send it into extra innings. Mickey Mantle, leading off the 11th, is fooled by Bill Fischer on a slow curve, then cannons a 2 – 2 pitch that almost clears the RF roof. “The hardest ball I ever hit,” Mantle later comments, a ball that, by some accounts, is still rising when it strikes a foot below the top. It is conservatively estimated by Dr. James McDonald, a physicist who studies long-ball trajectories, that the ball would have traveled 620 feet if it had not struck the façade. “That was the only homer I ever hit that the bat actually bent in my hands,” Mantle tells Dale Long, from whom he borrowed the bat.
On May 9, 1962, future Hall of Famer Brooks Robinson of the Baltimore Orioles clubs a grand slam against Ed Rakow of the Kansas City A’s. Robinson had hit a grand slam in his last game, making him one of five American League players to connect on bases-loaded home runs in consecutive games. Brooks hit…
On June 19, 1961 – New York Yankees outfielder Roger Maris hits a 9th-inning leading off home run off Kansas City’s Jim Archer, his 25th of the year is puts the Yankees up by a run, but the A’s will score twice in the bottom of the frame for a 4-3 victory at Municipal…
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