Elephant Rumblings: Catfish Hunter Award, A’s set HR mark

ICYMI:

• Former teammates burn Oakland; A’s drop second straight...
• Raul Alcantara and the A’s rotation depth...
• A’s 2nd baseman Jed Lowrie wins Catfish Hunter Award...
• Yahoo: Winter Came: The 2017 Oakland A's...
• Cotton likely done for season too...
• Rare air: A's set Coliseum mark with 128 HRs...
• Opinion: The Silent Majority of baseball fans hate watching the game through netting...
• Turvey: The second-half offensive explosion of the Oakland A's...
• Oakland student band kneels while playing national anthem at A's game...
• Boston should be worried about Drew Pomeranz...
• Fan ejected at Yankee Stadium for yelling pitch locations...
• Francisco Lindor illustrates baseball’s arbitration problem...
• A ‘Jeopardy!’ flub led to the Colorado Rockies finding a Marcus Allen on their payroll...
• Changes are coming to baseball, but fans deserve report why they will be implemented...

Today In Baseball History:

• 1923 - Lou Gehrig hit his first homer in the majors against the Boston Red Sox. On the same date 15 years later, he hit his 493rd and last against the Washington Senators.
• 1989 - Both Bay Area teams clinch their respective divisions. Oakland wins the AL West by beating Texas 5-0, while San Francisco loses 1-0 to the Dodgers but is assured of the NL West crown when the second-place Padres lose to the Reds 2-1 in 13 innings.

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