Kansas City remembers Charles O. Finley, the unconventional owner of baseball’s Athletics when they made their home here in the ’60s, for parading a mule as a mascot, delivering game balls via mechanical rabbit, and outfitting his teams in bright green and gold. That, and jilting KC in 1968 for Oakland.

Nancy Finley knew “Charlie O.” as a favorite uncle who ran the franchise with his right-hand man – her father Carl – for nearly two decades. In a discussion of her book Finley Ball: How Two Baseball Outsiders Turned the Oakland A's into a Dynasty and Changed the Game Forever, she recalls growing up in the game and the evolution of the A’s from perennial loser in Kansas City to a three-time World Series-winning powerhouse in Oakland.