• Vida Blue played for Oakland A’s, Kansas City Royals and San Francisco Giants
  • He won three World Series with the A’s, and was a six-time All-Star pitcher
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Vida Blue, the three-time Oakland A’s World Series champion, has died at the age of 73, it was announced on Sunday.

Blue was a six-time All-Star and won the American League MVP award in 1971, the year before his first World Series title.

The news was released on Sunday morning, with Oakland A’s legend Dave ‘Smoke’ Stewart tweeting: ‘Vida Blue rest in peace, my mentor, hero, and friend. 

‘I remember watching a 19 year old phenom dominate baseball, and at the same time alter my life. There are no words for what you have meant to me and so many others. My heart goes out to the Blue family.’

The A’s said Blue, who was a pitcher, died Saturday but didn’t give a cause of death.

Oakland A's Vida Blue, who was one of MLB's biggest draws in the early 1970s, died at 73

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