Dynastic, Bombastic, Fantastic: Reggie, Rollie, Catfish, and Charlie Finley’s Swingin’ A’s Audiobook (Free)

The Oakland A’s of the first 1970s were probably the most transformative group in baseball background. Never before experienced an entire organization so collectively traumatized baseball’s establishment with its outlandish behavior and business decisions-or using its indisputable earning record: five direct division game titles and three direct championships. The high episode that played from the field was exceeded only from the play in the clubhouse and front office. But those A’s, with their garish uniforms and about Dynastic, Bombastic, Fantastic: Reggie, Rollie, Catfish, and Charlie Finley’s Swingin’ A’s outlandish facial hair, redefined quickly…virtually every element of the overall game for coming generations.

Beneath the visionary command of Charles O. Finley, the team set up such luminary statistics as Reggie Jackson, Catfish Hunter, Rollie Fingertips, and Vida Blue. Finley acted as his very own general supervisor, and, with an insatiable need for control, dictated from the playlist from the ballpark organist to the menu for the mass media lounge. The advancement of free company spelled the end of Finley’s reign; within 2 yrs, his dynasty was dropped.

A sprawling, brawling history of one from the game’s most memorable groups, Dynastic, Bombastic, Fantastic is a paean to a turbulent however magical time.