Winning nine World Series championships as a baseball team, the Oakland Athletics are an American professional baseball team based in Oakland, California. The Athletics compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) West division.

The team was first founded in Philadelphia in 1901 as the Philadelphia Athletics have won three World Series championships in 1910, 1911, and 1913, and back-to-back titles in 1929 and 1930. Nicknamed “Swingin’ A’s”, the team moved from Philadelphia to Kansas City in 1955 and became the Kansas City Athletics before moving to Oakland in 1968.

Who Founded Oakland Athletics?

When the idea of a league to rival the existing National League was conceived, the Shibe family who produced sporting goods, some local sportswriters, and Connie Mack, who had played and managed in the major leagues, were chosen to found the Philadelphia franchise.

Connie Mack was a canny appointed authority of ability and gathered a club from sandlots and furthermore by “striking” the Phillies of the National League who had been a Philadelphia apparatus beginning around 1883. The Phillies were justifiably not entertained at losing a few headliners and sued the Athletics for their return. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court decided for the Phillies.

John McGraw, who dealt with the New York Giants of the National League, laughingly called Connie Mack’s establishment a “Trinket”. It was Mack, in any case, that triumphed when it’s all said and done. In a move of virtuoso, he exchanged every one of the purloined players to Cleveland out of the court’s ward.

Obviously, the players couldn’t play in Pennsylvania yet that matter was in the end settled. Without the past previous Phillies, the Athletics caught the American League flag in 1902 which was just the second year of their reality. The World Series had not yet been initiated, yet this was the first of nine A.L. flags and five World’s Championships that Mack’s men would win.