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Encyclopedia > Oakland Oaks (ABL)

For the professional baseball team see: Oakland Oaks (PCL). For the American Basketball Association team see: Oakland Oaks (ABA). ...


For the American Basketball Association team see: Oakland Oaks (ABA). For the professional baseball team see: Oakland Oaks (PCL). ...



The original Oakland Oaks basketball team played in the American Basketball League in 1962. The team began its existence in the 1961-1962 inaugural season as the San Francisco Saints. When the Philadelphia Warriors of the established National Basketball Association announced plans to relocate to San Francisco for the 1962-1963 season, the Saints moved across the San Francisco Bay to Oakland for the 1962-1963 season and were renamed the Oaks. The team and the entire ABL disbanded December 31, 1962. The American Basketball League played one full season, 1961_1962, and part of 1962_1963. ... The Golden State Warriors are a National Basketball Association team based in Oakland, California. ... NBA logo, depicting former star Jerry West The National Basketball Association, more popularly known as simply the NBA, is the worlds premier mens professional basketball league. ... The downtown San Francisco skyline, looking east from the central part of the city. ... San Francisco Bay, San Pablo Bay, and the Golden Gate The San Francisco Bay is a shallow, productive estuary in which water draining approximately forty percent of California, flowing in the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers from the Sierra Nevada mountains, enters the Pacific Ocean. ... Aerial view looking west over downtown Oakland, Lake Merritt and the Port of Oakland. ...


Several years later, another Oakland Oaks basketball team played in the American Basketball Association during the 1967-1968 and 1968-1969 seasons. For the professional baseball team see: Oakland Oaks (PCL). ... The American Basketball Association (ABA) refers to two distinct professional basketball leagues. ...


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The Oakland Oaks were a minor league baseball team which played in the Pacific Coast League from 1903 until 1955.
After the 1912 season, the Oaks opened their new stadium, named Oakland Ball Park (or simply Oaks Park) though it was located in the neighboring city of Emeryville at San Pablo and Park Avenues.
It was in Oakland that Stengel developed his talent for “platooning,” i.e., juggling his lineup to maximize each player’s potential in given situations, that served him so famously as manager of the New York Yankees.
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