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A’s Coverage:
- Matier: A’s offer deal to Oakland to shake loose movement on Coliseum site, new ballpark... ($)
- Van Niekerken: 1989 World Series photos found - Giants, A’s and a quake’s shake... ($)
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MLB News:
- Kaplan: Cubs to hire David Ross as new manager...
- Martino: Gerrit Cole to Yankees might be longshot - but expect them to try...
- Passan: MLB looking into longtime umpire Rob Drake’s tweet...
- Kaplan: Kris Bryant’s service time grievance to be heard this week...
Baseball Interest Stories:
- Lindbergh: The Astros Don’t Deserve a World Series of Distraction...
- Rosenthal: It’s time for Rob Manfred and MLB to impose harsh discipline on Brandon Taubman and the Astros... ($$$)
- Posnanski: Juan Soto is not the future, he’s the present — and he’s turned this Series into a whole new ballgame... ($$$)
- Edwards: Juan Soto Does the Impossible...
- Fink: Sean Doolittle’s Important Turnaround Evident in Game 1...
- McCullough: ‘At some point, Stephen just said, Enough’ - How freshman year at San Diego State reshaped the career of Stephen Strasburg... ($$$)
Today in Baseball History:
- 1908 — Baseball’s anthem, Take Me Out to the Ballgame, is introduced by singer Billy Murray. The songwriting team of Albert Von Tilzer (music) and Jack Norworth (words), who created the immortal tune, had never seen a game before composing the immortal number.
- 1972 — Hall of Famer Jackie Robinson dies of heart disease at age 53. Robinson had become the first black major league player of the 20th century with the 1947 Dodgers.
Best of Twitter:
- Baseball players are just like the rest of us...
Verlander threw the ball into his own leg lol pic.twitter.com/Z1WYILmCgb
— Jomboy (@Jomboy_) October 24, 2019
Yu Darvish’s troll level pic.twitter.com/zoz2Tq0ZfD
— Baseball Quotes (@BaseballQuotes1) October 24, 2019
- This is pretty incredible...
An incredible Stephen Strasburg tidbit:
— Jayson Stark (@jaysonst) October 24, 2019
This will be the first time in World Series history that a No. 1 overall pick will start a Series game *for the team that drafted him*!
The others to start - David Price & Mike Moore - started for a different team.
- A former A’s great with a really interesting story just released his new book...
Thank you @Athletics for the love!! https://t.co/llrcCAqAVj
— Barry Zito (@barryzitomusic) October 23, 2019