You've got to hand it to the Oakland A's. They're a small-market team, easy to ignore, and currently in last place. Yet they have produced three -- maybe four -- of the most memorable teams of the last 50 years. There were the dynastic Swingin' A's, winners of three straight World Series in the '70s. There were the Bash Brothers of the late '80s, appearing in three more World Series. And there were the Moneyball A's of the early 2000s, who changed how everyone views baseball. Throw in the BillyBall days of the early '80s and that's quite a bit of history packed into one green-and-gold team. Also, the A's have managed to pull off something that no other major league team has been able to do as successfully or for as long a period of time. I'm referring to their gloriously brief nickname. You can cite the Seattle Mariners being called the "M's" here and there, and particularly the Orioles being called the "O'...
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