SF Examiner: Bolstered lineup, pitching depth make A's contenders

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By Art Spander
Special to The Examiner

So the Giants finally have their World Series win. As A’s loyalists like to point out, that leaves San Francisco three behind the team from Oakland — a team suddenly more relevant than Lew Wolff’s desperate attempts to move to San Jose or the whispered hints of Major League Baseball to contract the franchise into oblivion.

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