THREE-TIME CHAMPION BANDO EMERGED FROM INAUGURAL DRAFT
Sal Bando was one of the best players on the last team to win three consecutive World Series.
A sixth-round pick of the Athletics in the first-ever draft in 1965 out of Arizona State, Bando became the club’s everyday third base-man during its final year in Kansas City in 1967.
By 1969 he was an all-star who hit a career-best 31 home runs. Bando finished second in American League MVP voting in 1971 and was an AL all-star
