Late that year, he met with his cousin, Charlie, who had bought the Kansas City Athletics in 1960. “Dad said he looked really beat up, not physically, but mentally,” Nancy Finley, Carl’s ...

1975 — Pitcher Mel Stottlemyre, suffering from a torn rotator cuff, is given his unconditional release by the New York ...

The unique baseball, an invention of Oakland Athletics owner Charlie Finley, is used in an exhibition game between Oakland and the Cleveland Indians. Finley contends the ball, painted the color of ...