Elephant Rumblings: A’s nemesis Calhoun signs with D-Backs

A’s Coverage:

• Ravani: Oakland Assembly - With giant food hall, Jack London Square again seeks to fulfill potential... ($)
• Leitch: One holiday gift for every team...

MLB News:

• Adler: D-backs, OF Kole Calhoun agree on two-year deal worth $16M...
• DiComo: Righty Dellin Betances signs one-year, $10.5M deal with Mets...

Baseball Interest Stories:

• Carig: Curt Flood’s letter to Bowie Kuhn - 50 years later, a close look at the founding document of free agency... ($$$)
• Todd: Top 25 Offseason Trade Candidates - Late-2019 Update...
• Leitch: The stories that shaped the decade in baseball...
• Posnanski: The Baseball 100 - No. 94, Roy Campanella... ($$$)

Today in Baseball History:

• 1862 — A crowd of 40,000 watches two teams of imprisoned Union Army soldiers play baseball at Hilton Head, South Carolina. Civil War historians are debating the actual size of the crowd.
• 1958 — Rickey Henderson is born in Chicago, Illinois. Henderson will break into the major leagues with the Oakland Athletics in 1979, and will go on to become one of the greatest leadoff men in history before being elected to the Hall of Fame in 2009.

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