1979 Oakland Athletics season

MLB yearly infobox
name = Oakland Athletics
season = 1979
misc =

current league = American League
y1 = 1901
division = Western Division
y2 = 1969
Uniform
ballpark = Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum
y4 = 1968
city = Oakland, California
y5 = 1968
owners = Charles O. Finley
managers = Jim Marshall
television = KPIX-TV
(Monte Moore, Bob Waller)
radio = KKIS
(Hal Ramey, Red Rush)|The Oakland Athletics' 1979 season involved the A's finishing 7th in the American League West with a record of 54 wins and 108 losses. Charlie O. Finley nearly sold the team to buyers who would have moved them to New Orleans for 1979. Only 306,763 paying customers showed up to watch the A's in 1979, the team's worst attendance since leaving Philadelphia. Any deal to relocate fell through when the city of Oakland refused to release the A's from their lease. The city was in the midst of its battle with the Oakland Raiders over their move to Los Angeles and didn't want to lose both teams.

Offseason

*October 3, 1978: Rico Carty was purchased from the Athletics by the Toronto Blue Jays. [ [http://www.baseball-reference.com/c/cartyri01.shtml Rico Carty page at Baseball Reference] ]
*February 28, 1979: Jim Todd was signed as a free agent by the Athletics. [ [http://www.baseball-reference.com/t/toddji01.shtml Jim Todd page at Baseball Reference] ]

Regular season

eason standings

Transactions

*June 15, 1979: Mark Souza was signed as a free agent by the Athletics. [ [http://www.baseball-reference.com/s/souzama01.shtml Mark Souza page at Baseball Reference] ]

Roster

Pitching

Starting pitchers

References

* [http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/OAK/1979.shtml 1979 Oakland Athletics team page at Baseball Reference]
* [http://baseball-almanac.com/teamstats/roster.php?y=1979&t=OAK 1979 Oakland Athletics team page at www.baseball-almanac.com]