Liberal Arts Blog– Saturday is Sports, Dance, Health and fitness, and All Things Physical Day
Today’s Subject: Oakland, CA– Ghost Town (the Golden Seals, the Raiders, Golden State Warriors, the As)
Last time, a farewell to Raphael Nadal. 2 weeks earlier, the remarkable newbie quarterback for the Washington Commanders, Jayden Daniels. Three weeks earlier, the Dodgers and the Yankees. Today, a trip to Oakland, CA.
As of September 24, 2024 Oakland, CA is a ghost community of major expert sporting activities teams.
That’s the day the Oakland Athletics (“A’s”), with 9 World Collection, the 2nd highest in the American Organization after the Yankees, played their last video game at Oakland Coliseum. For the 2025– 7 period their momentary home will be Sutter Health and wellness Area in West Sacramento before transferring to their irreversible home in Las Las vega.
This is the fourth time given that 1976 that a big league sports team has actually deserted Oakland.
Their National Hockey League (NHL) team (the Golden Seals) left in 1976 to come to be the Cleveland Barons. The National Basket Round (NBA) team, the Golden State Warriors relocated to San Francisco in 2019 The National Football League (NFL) team, the Raiders, left in 2020 to go to Las Las vega.
Today, a farewell to the A’s, the Raiders, and the Golden State Warriors. Were you ever before a follower of among these?
Experts– please chime in. Correct, intricate, elucidate.
THE SPORTS– began as the Philadelphia Athletics in 1901, winning five World Collection (1910, 1911, 1913, 1929, 1930 Below: Reggie Jackson (# 9, Mark McGwire (# 25, Rickey Henderson # 24, Jose Canseco (# 33
1 “The group’s owner and manager for its very first 50 years was Connie Mack, and Hall of Fame players consisted of Principal Bender, Frank “Crowning Achievement” Baker, Jimmie Foxx, and Lefty Grove.”
2 “The team left Philly for Kansas City in 1955 and came to be the Kansas City Athletics before relocating to Oakland in 1968”
3 “Nicknamed the “Swingin’ A’s,” under owner Charlie O. Finley they won 3 consecutive World Series in 1972, 1973, and 1974, led by players Vida Blue, Catfish Seeker, Reggie Jackson and Rollie Fingers.”
NB: “After being sold by Finley to Walter A. Haas Jr., the team won 3 consecutive pennants and the 1989 World Series under the “Celebration Brothers,” Jose Canseco and Mark McGwire, along with Hall of Famers Dennis Eckersley, Rickey Henderson, and manager Tony La Russa.” “In 2002, the Athletics set the document for a lot of consecutive victories in a season with twenty, an even that would certainly take place to be the pioneering step in the application of sabermetrics in baseball.”
THE OAKLAND RAIDERS (NFL)– Based in Oakland from 1960– 1981 and afterwards once more from 1995 to 2019; Super Dish Champions in 1976 and 1980 In Los Angeles from 1982– 1994 when won the Super Dish again in 1983 The Raiders have played in Las Las vega considering that 2020 (Below Al Davis and John Madden)
1 Al Davis (1929– 2011 was “the only exec in NFL background to be an assistant coach, head train, general supervisor, commissioner, and proprietor.” He was the “de facto general manager” for 39 years.
2 “The franchise enjoyed their greatest successes throughout the 1970 s and 1980 s where they were seasonal playoff challengers and won three Super Bowl titles.”
3 “Davis was energetic in civil liberties, rejecting to enable the Raiders to play in any kind of city where black and white gamers needed to stay in different resorts. He was the initial NFL owner in the modern period to hire a black head trainer (Art Covering), the first to hire a female chief executive (Amy Trask), and the initial NFL proprietor to employ a Latino head train (Tom Flores).”
NB: John Madden (1936– 2021 was head coach of the Raiders from 1968– 1979 having been the Raiders’ linebacker instructor from 1967–8 He led the Raiders to their first Super Dish success in 1976 Tom Flores (1937–) bet the Raiders from 1960 to 1966 and was the very first minority head instructor in specialist football background to win a Super Dish (in 1981 for the Oakland Raider). He won again in 1984 leading the Los Angeles Raiders).
THE GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS– began in Philly in 1946, played in Oakland from 1971 to 2019, when they relocated to San Francisco. Below: Draymond Eco-friendly, Klay Thompson, Stephen Curry
1 Wilt Chamberlain bet the Philadelphia Warriors for five and a fifty percent years prior to they moved to Oakland.
2 In May 2015, Stephen Curry won the NBA Most Belongings Player Award– the first time for a Warrior because Wilt Chamberlain in 1960
3 The structure of the “Golden State Warrior dynasty” has actually been the trio of Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, and Draymond Environment-friendly.
NB: The Warriors got to 5 successive NBA finals in between 2015 and 2019
Las Las Vega Raiders– Wikipedia
Golden State Warriors– Wikipedia
Draymond Environment-friendly– Wikipedia
PRICE ESTIMATE OF THE MONTH
“Make your own Bible. Select and gather all words and sentences that in all your analyses have actually been to you like the blast of a trumpet.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
My spin– then regularly review, re-rank, and exchange your checklist with those you enjoy. I call this the “Orion Exchange” since seven has to do with as several as any kind of human can digest at a time. Video game?
For the last four years of articles arranged by style:
PDF with headings– Google Drive
ATTACHMENTS LISTED BELOW:
# 1 A graphic guide to justice (9 allegories on one web page).
# 2 39 Tracks, Petitions, and Rhymes: the Keys to the Hearts of Seven Billion Individuals” — Adams Home Senior Citizen Sitting Room Discussion, (11/ 17/ 20
YOUR TURN
Please share the coolest point you learned today connected to sporting activities, dancing, physical fitness. Or the coolest point you discovered Sports, Dance, of Health and fitness in your life– whether on the field, on the dance flooring or in the fitness center, whether from an instructor, a moms and dad, a close friend, or just your very own testing.
This is your opportunity to make somebody else’s day. And even transform their life. It’s possibly an opportunity to take into words something you have never ever expressed prior to. And to seal in your own memory something cool you may otherwise fail to remember. Or to believe more deeply than or else about something dear to your heart.