Bando was the unquestioned leader on a “Swingin’ A’s” team that fought each other — and then-owner Charles Finley — but rarely missed a beat on the field.
Sal Bando, the mustachioed third baseman and captain on the “Swingin’ A’s” teams that won three straight World Series titles from 1972-1974 has died after a battle with cancer. He was 78.
“Captain Sal” spent the first 11 of his 16 years as a player with the A’s before joining the Milwaukee Brewers as a free agent after the 1976 season. He later joined the Brewers front office and was served as Milwaukee’s general manager from 1992-99. The A’s won the American League West five times and were second three more times during Bando’s nine seasons in Oakland. The A’s rarely were on the field without Bando during that stretch. He played in at least 146 games every season from 1968-76, including in all 162 games three times.
“Bando has such a strong arm that he can run down the ball after taking it in the chest and get the runner out,” longtime A’s beat writer Ron Bergman once wrote in The Sporting News.
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