Farm System
See also: Minor league baseball- Life Magazine had declared the A's to have the best minor league system in professional baseball. Finley had spent $2.5 million on bonus contracts as a way of getting prospects to sign with his club.
| Level | Team | League | Manager |
|---|---|---|---|
| AAA | Vancouver Mounties | Pacific Coast League | Mickey Vernon |
| AA | Birmingham A's | Southern League | Gus Niarhos |
| A | Peninsula Grays | Carolina League | Jimmy Williams |
| A | Leesburg Athletics | Florida State League | Al Ronning |
| A | Burlington Bees | Midwest League | Jim Hughes |
| Rookie | GCL A's | Gulf Coast League | Billy Herman |
Read more about this topic: 1968 Oakland Athletics Season
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“It might be seen by what tenure men held the earth. The smallest stream is mediterranean sea, a smaller ocean creek within the land, where men may steer by their farm bounds and cottage lights. For my own part, but for the geographers, I should hardly have known how large a portion of our globe is water, my life has chiefly passed within so deep a cove. Yet I have sometimes ventured as far as to the mouth of my Snug Harbor.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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