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Oakland Makes Pitch To Get KC AthleticsCHICAGO (AP) — Oakland John Klein, sports director ofmade its pitch Thursdav for an American League baseball team and Charles 0. Finley, owner of the money-losing Kansas City Athletics said, “I'm very much impressed.Robert Xahans. president of the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Corp., presented a lease proposal which he -aid he hopes will persuade Finley and the American league to move the Kansas City franchise to what Naha* called the finest spectator stadium in the VnitedC,,toc •»OI a I c a.Finley said representatives of KCBS aiso discussed with him radio and television coverage by the CBS-owned station at San Francisco. Finley said he ex petted a concrete ofier later from Julius Dunns, vice presiThronehut his last impressive victory came in 1964 against Doug Jones. The 20 year-old ( ana-dian, who hud 12 straight seems doomed to the status of trial horse for other talentedyoungsters.By -topping 1‘huvalo. a feat that deposed champion ( assius (*lav wasn't able to accomplish, the second ranked Fraier marked himself the man toKCBS.Finley said he doesn’t expect to decide whether to ask the league for permission to move the franchi-e until some time in October. That's when his current lease of the Kansas City Stadium expi res.Earlier this week, Finley talked with representatives of the Kansas City Sports Author ity which plans to build a $43 million sports complex. They said the meeting did not get down to specific terms by which Kansas City hopes to keep the AthleticsAt a joint news conference Thursday, Naha* said he i-hopeful of getting the American League team for Oakland for the 1968 season.I Finley said items that part.e ularly impressed him were that I Oakland “has a stadium reauv and available immediately ’ aud a 4 million population in the San Francisco Oakland Bay area from which to draw customers Finley said he would l»I pleased to listen to a proposal M move the Athletics to M ]x% «• ti kec. which ha- a major league stadium and no one to play in r since the National Lea; u Braves moved to Atlanta “But no one associated w \ Milwaukee has contac'cd no . Finley said The Vs owner said the dul has lost S4.aaj.U00 in the -i\ \rai - at Kansas (Jit\.
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Great Bend Western Kansas Press
Great Bend, Kansas, US
Fri, Jul 21, 1967
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