“This is special. There was no way I was going to miss it. … This is the team that gave me the opportunity to come from the Dominican. I played my first game in this stadium. Walking he…
OAKLAND — It took 20 years, but David Justice finally came clean: He’s the reason the A’s then-A.L. record 20-game winning streak came to an end.
Justice shared his confession — and complaint about how inaccurately manager Art Howe was portrayed in the movie — with a couple hundred season-ticket holders hours before the 2002 team was honored in advance of Sunday’s game against the New York Yankees. Toward the end of his story, he turned to the others seated for the Q&A session, flashed a huge grin and said, “So guys, I apologize for ending the streak at 20.
The ceremony also included a “20” banner lowered from the upper deck in right field, just below Rollie Fingers’ 34 and Catfish Hunter’s 27 on the tarp. “This is the team that gave me the opportunity to come from the Dominican. I played my first game in this stadium. Walking here makes me proud.” While many of the 2002 characters went on to long careers and success elsewhere — Jermaine Dye won a World Series with the White Sox in 2005, Mulder a year later with the Cardinals. Zito and Hudson win rings with the Giants — Justice was right; there was something special about the season and the group he called “some of the greatest guys you ever want to be around, let alone being great baseball players, but just great dudes.
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