Current
Season
Team
History
All-Time Leaders Batting
Pitching
League Championship Titles: 1926,
1929
Ballpark: Oaks Park
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Oaks Park Opened: 1913
Capacity: 11,200
45th Street and San Pablo Avenue,
Emeryville, California |
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Factors
AVG overall .954
LHB .965, RHB .948
Doubles .961
Triples 1.104
HR overall .523
LHB .510, RHB .530
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Distances/wall heights
Left Field line 325 ft./21 ft.
Left Field 370 ft./21 ft.
Left-Center Field 392 ft./21 ft.
Center Field 425 ft./21 ft.
Right-Center 400 ft./21 ft.
Right Field 380 ft./21 ft.
Right Field line 340 ft./21 ft. |
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In the Redux
The Oaks have won two Pacific Coast League
championships but have yet to win a World Series
title. The Oaks also made a postseason appearance
in 1937.
Real-life history
Professional baseball in Oakland dates back
almost as far as professional baseball itself. The
city was represented by several teams in several
leagues prior to the formation of the PCL. The
team that joined the league as a charter member in
1903 had been known as the Oakland Clamdiggers the
year before but for the next half-century they
would be called the Oaks, or informally, the
Acorns.
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The 1948 PCL champions, managed by Casey
Stengel and nicknamed the “Nine Old Men”
by a sportswriter who must have failed
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The Oaks’ longtime home, Oaks Park in Emeryville,
was built in 1913, a year after the team won its
first PCL pennant. Until the 1920’s the Oaks were
owned by the same man who owned the San Francisco
Seals, J. Cal Ewing. During this time the two
clubs freely switched home venues back and forth,
so both teams were playing some home games in
Oakland, and both teams were playing some home
games in San Francisco. After Ewing sold his
interest in the team the Oaks made Oaks Park their
permanent home.
The Oaks were PCL champions in 1912, 1927, 1948,
1950, and 1954. They usually had no official
affiliation with any major league team, but their
players and even managers often found their way to
the Yankees, and they were officially a Yankees’
farm club from 1935 to 1937.
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The Li’l Acorn, Oakland’s irrepressible
mascot, resplendent in baseball spikes and
no pants. |
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And for the Oaks’ fan in your life who
has almost everything, an Ernie Lombardi
ashtray. |
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When the team’s attendance fell to last in the
league in 1955, the ownership opted for a move to
Vancouver, where the club became known as the
Mounties. The move made the PCL an international
league for the first time.
Ultimately the franchise was a casualty of the
demise of a league they weren’t even a part of.
When the American Association folded after the
1962 season, four of its teams, including the
Dallas-Ft. Worth Rangers, joined the PCL. The
Vancouver Mounties had been affiliated with the
Minnesota Twins but the Twins opted to transfer
their affiliation to the Texas club, and the
Mounties were disbanded.
Oakland was without a baseball team of its own
between 1956 and 1967, but when Charlie Finley was
looking to move his club from Kansas City in 1968,
Oakland raised its hand to provide the Athletics
their new home.
Oakland Oaks Uniform History
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1921-1923 Home
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1924 Home
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1925-1929 Home
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1930-1932 Home
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1933-1936 Home
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1921-1923 Away
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1924-1926 Away
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1927-1929 Away
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1930-1936 Away
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1937-1938 Home
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1939 Home
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1940-1941 Home
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1942-1945 Home
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1946 Home
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1937-1938 Away
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1939 Away
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1940-1941 Away
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1942-1945 Away
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1946 Away
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1947 Home
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1948 Home
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1949-1953 Home
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1954 Home
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1955 Home
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1947-1948 Away
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1949-1953 Away
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1954 Away
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1955 Away
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