HOUSTON, Dec 21 (Reuters) - Rudi Valentino, the oldest male orangutan in North America, died at the Houston Zoo on Tuesday at the age of 45. Reuters visited the Houston Zoo four days before Rudi ...

Joe Rudi, a major contributor to the A's three world championships and five division titles 30 years ago, also was part of baseball's early free- agent exodus, which particularly hurt Oakland.

One of the honorees was Joe Rudi, who began his big-league career by playing 19 games in Kansas City in 1967, the year before the A's landed in Oakland. When the A's arrived at the Coliseum ...

It was then that then-A’s owner Charlie Finley sold (he called it a trade, but there were no players coming in other direction) closer Rollie Fingers and left fielder Joe Rudi to the Boston Red ...