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What the Hell Is Going on in Oakland?

It doesn't matter if you like baseball or even like any professional sports at all—this is a story of guts and resilience you need to read. And for a very good reason, you need to read it today.

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Oakland Athletics 'could move to the Tropicana site or Festival Grounds in  Las Vegas' | Daily Mail Online
ABOVE: Players on the Oakland Athletics celebrate a walk-off victory.

Introduction

The New York Times has described the Oakland Athletics as a Major League Baseball team that “swings from unbeatable to unwatchable.”

In 2002, it was “unbeatable.” The under-resourced A’s profoundly improbable 20-game win streak that year, memorialized in the movie Moneyball—…

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