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By Lance Williams
From 2000 to 2004, the Oakland Athletics were the greatest baseball team that never won the pennant.
Film fans can get that idea from "Moneyball," the new Brad Pitt movie about Billy Beane, the club's computer-genius general manager.
In that stretch, the A's won 98 games per year - 20 in a row at one point. First baseman Jason Giambi and shortstop Miguel Tejada both were named the American League's Most Valuable Player, and pitcher Barry Zito won the Cy Young Award. Oakland was in the playoffs four straight years - and lost in the first round every time.
There's another idea fans might not get from the movie: The "Moneyball" A's were loaded with steroid users.
Nine men who played for the A's between 2000 and 2004 used banned drugs, according to the Mitchell Report, former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell's official investigation of baseball's steroid era.
By Lance Williams
From 2000 to 2004, the Oakland Athletics were the greatest baseball team that never won the pennant.
Film fans can get that idea from "Moneyball," the new Brad Pitt movie about Billy Beane, the club's computer-genius general manager.
In that stretch, the A's won 98 games per year - 20 in a row at one point. First baseman Jason Giambi and shortstop Miguel Tejada both were named the American League's Most Valuable Player, and pitcher Barry Zito won the Cy Young Award. Oakland was in the playoffs four straight years - and lost in the first round every time.
There's another idea fans might not get from the movie: The "Moneyball" A's were loaded with steroid users.
Nine men who played for the A's between 2000 and 2004 used banned drugs, according to the Mitchell Report, former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell's official investigation of baseball's steroid era.
- 10/25/2011
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