By John E. Peterson
This paintings provides the particularly brief heritage of the Kansas urban franchise from 1954, while Arnold Johnson bought the Philadelphia Athletics and moved the staff to Kansas urban as a result of monetary advantages town supplied, to 1967, whilst Charles Finley moved the staff to Oakland (after unsuccessful makes an attempt to maneuver it to Dallas, Atlanta, Louisville, Milwaukee and Seattle). within the Fifties, the group used to be referred to as “a Yankee farm crew” end result of the quite a few trades with the Yankees that preferred the latter. the writer re-evaluates those trades and concludes that they weren't as one-sided as formerly inspiration and very did gain the staff. the writer additionally rigorously considers Charles Finley’s intentions to maintain the workforce in Kansas urban and his purposes for having to maneuver them to Oakland.
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