Charlie Finley: The Outrageous Story of Baseball's Super Showman Review
Charlie Finley: The Outrageous Story of Baseball's Super Showman Feature
Before the "Bronx Zoo" of George Steinbrenner and Billy Martin, there were the Oakland Athletics of the early 1970s, one of the most successful, most colorful--and most chaotic--baseball teams of all time. They were all of those things because of Charlie Finley. Not only the A's owner, he was also the general manager, personally assembling his team, deciding his players' salaries, and making player moves during the season--a level of involvement no other owner, not even Steinbrenner, engaged in.
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