Remembering the Philadelphia ‘Pathetics’, the worst baseball team in history

The Oakland A's are closing in on 110 losses this season. But when the franchise was on the east coast they made defeat an art form

It's been a demoralizing season for fans of the Oakland Athletics. The team announced its intention to leave for Las Vegas, and on the field, the A's are wrapping up a historically bad year, playing barely over .300.

But this isn't the worst A's team in history. More than a century ago, playing nearly 3,000 miles away, the Philadelphia Athletics had not only the worst record in franchise history, but the worst record of any Major League Baseball team in the modern era.