OAKLAND, Calif. -- Everybody said goodbye to Oakland Athletics baseball in their own way Thursday afternoon. After 57 seasons at the Coliseum -- and decades of indecision and vitriol swirling around ...

Carl Finley was a high school principal working in Dallas in 1961. He was 37, and he had never lived outside of Texas, aside from serving in World War II. Late that year, he met with his cousin, ...