This blog covers the 1989 baseball season in the Bay Area, from the Giants to the A’s to the Loma Prieta earthquake that interrupted the Bay Bridge World Series. It focuses on the A’s, largely by providing pictures of A’s players, practically all of them from the 1989 Topps and 1990 Score baseball card sets. I’ve added little snippets of information to caption the pictures, with the data usually taken from the players’ cards, and written the captions as though we were still in 1989 and no one had ever heard of steroid cycling.
There’s also some things on the Giants, and I’m also putting up some pictures from the Loma Prieta earthquake-after all, who can remember that season without thinking of the quake?-and some A’s/Giants memorabilia from 1989. Write to me if you have any pictures, audio clips, or video clips of your own that you’d like to share, or have me mention in the audio/video guide on the blog.
I just returned from a visit to Cooperstown and while at dinner had the occasion to meet Terry Christman, who was wearing a WS ring. He told me that he was a member of the A’s 1989 coaching staff. I have been unable to confirm that on the internet. Can you confirm that he was a coach?
Thank you.
I can’t really confirm it, but he was a batting practice pitcher, minor league pitching coach, and pitching chart coordinator for the Giants and A’s for many years, so I don’t have any reason to doubt that he got the ring for his time with the A’s in 1989. I don’t know any other team with whom he would have gotten the ring.