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In 1980, when the Haas family of San Francisco bought the franchise from Charles O. Finley, the A's were ailing. Finley had goaded the team to three consecutive world championships in 1972-74, but by 1979 the A's were attracting fewer than 4,000 visitors a game. In...
The long view -- the ability to spot burgeoning talent and swing a trade for the right veteran -- came from a less expected source. Sandy Alderson was a San Francisco lawyer who began as the team's general counsel and is now, at 42, general manager of the sport's dominant...
Money aside, the A's took a risk signing such a fragile superstar to a five- year lease. And in doing so, Alderson must have realized that Rickey Henderson would demand an expensive extension of his four-year, $12 million contract. If the A's win the Series again this...
McDonald's says it opened the cafe to see if a town too small for a regular franchise could support a traditional restaurant. But it has no plans for future golden-oldie branches. The cafe is not the only experiment the Big M has launched in recent months. The company...
The commissioner, of course, must play within the white lines, balancing his freedom to act in the "best interests" of baseball with constraints on his power to deprive an owner of his property rights over a $200 million franchise like the Yankees. Steinbrenner's transgression was giving $40,000 to...