Athletics (baseball)

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The Athletics (often referred to as the A's) are an American professional baseball team in Major League Baseball (MLB) and a member club of the American League (AL) West Division. The team plays its home games at Sutter Health Park in West Sacramento, California, and is approved to relocate to the Las Vegas metropolitan area for the 2028 season. The franchise's nine World Series championships, 15 pennants, and 17 division titles are the second most in the AL after the New York Yankees. One of the AL's eight charter franchises, the team was founded in 1901 as the Philadelphia Athletics. They won three World Series championships in 1910, 1911, and 1913, and back-to-back titles in 1929 and 1930. The team's owner and manager for its first 50 years was Connie Mack, and Hall of Fame players included Chief Bender, Frank "Home Run" Baker, Jimmie Foxx, and Lefty Grove. The team left Philadelphia for Kansas City, Missouri, in 1955 and became the Kansas City Athletics before moving to Oakland, California...

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