DUNEDIN, Fla. – Darold Knowles broke into professional baseball in 1961. A year later, he played with another left-handed pitcher named Pat Gillick on a double-A team managed by Earl Weaver.

But he didn’t get them all. Former A’s reliever Darold Knowles did something 40 years ago this October that nobody — not even Rivera — ever matched. Knowles remains the only pitcher ever ...

Amid the fraternizing Sunday with friends and former teammates at the Coliseum inside an outfield suite, former Oakland Athletics relief pitcher Darold Knowles had a sobering realization.