The Oakland A’s of the early 1970s were one of the most transformative group in baseball history. Never before got an entire corporation therefore collectively traumatized baseball’s establishment using its outlandish behavior and business decisions-or using its indisputable earning record: five right division titles and three direct championships. The high crisis that played out on the field was exceeded just from the dilemma in the clubhouse and front side office. But those A’s, using their garish outfits and about Dynastic, Bombastic, Fantastic: Reggie, Rollie, Catfish, and Charlie Finley’s Swingin’ A’s outlandish facial hair, redefined shortly…virtually every element of the overall game for coming generations.

Under the visionary command of Charles O. Finley, the group set up such luminary figures as Reggie Jackson, Catfish Hunter, Rollie Fingertips, and Vida Blue. Finley acted as his own general supervisor, and, with an insatiable need for control, dictated everything from the playlist of the ballpark organist to the menu for the press lounge. The advent of free agency spelled the end of Finley’s reign; within two years, his dynasty was lost.

A sprawling, brawling history of one from the game’s most memorable groups, Dynastic, Bombastic, Fantastic is a paean to a turbulent however magical time.