Topic: Ken Holtzman

A's leading off

0 . Bleeding A's blue: Some old Kansas City A's were honored before the game, including Tommy Lasorda, who pitched in Kansas City in 1956, his ...

1973 Baseball Season

During the 1973 baseball season, the Mets, barely a .500 team, came close to a World Series victory. The American League unveiled its new Designated Hitter Rule as Boston met New York in the season's first game (Ron Blomberg drew a ...
Few question the New York Yankees' logic in signing ace pitcher CC Sabathia to a seven-year, $161 million contract this winter. He returns to Oakland for the 2009 season, where, as a long-haired, hard-partying youngster, he led the low-budget A's to ...