Summer Premium and Catalog Auction July 31 & Aug 8
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/9/2015
A mustachioed band of rogues, Oakland’s “Swingin’ A’s” were one of modern baseball’s few “dynasty” teams winning three consecutive World Series from 1972-1974, Oakland was the first team to turn the trick since the New York Yankees of the early 1950s and the last until the Yankees of the late 90s. The A’s finished first in the AL West five games and defeated the Baltimore Orioles three games to one in the ALCS before defending their back-to-back Series titles with a five-game Series victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers. Hall of Fame pitcher Jim “Catfish” Hunter won his first and only Cy Young Award leading the American League with 25 wins and a 2.49 ERA. This would be the A’s last great team of the 70s and for quite some time thereafter as owner Charlie Finley began to trade and sell off the team’s star players in response to free agency. This size-9.5, 25.6 Jostens 10K ring features the “A’s” logo set in an emerald green gem, stone on its face surrounded by “World Champions” in raised relief, with gold un-seamed balls on both sides. The right shank contains a green three-leaved shamrock with a pair of gold shamrocks in relief and the numbers “72, 73 and 74” in gold on each leaf above the letters “S.S.S” at the bottom. “Oakland” is in relief on the left shank above a gold circle containing the “A’s” logo and the name “Hubert” for long time Bay area sports writing legend Hubert Mizell to whom the ring was issued by the A’s. “10K ©Jostens” is engraved on the interior band.