Vida Blue

• Oakland Athletics (1969-1977)
• San Francisco Giants (1978-1981, 1985-1986)
• Kansas City Royals (1982-1983)

Vida Rochelle Blue Jr. ( born July 2, 1949 in Mansfield, Louisiana ) is a former baseball pitcher. It had its most successful period in the Oakland Athletics, with whom he three times in a row the World Series (1972-1974) won. In addition, he played for the San Francisco Giants and Kansas City Royals.

In his third year in Major League Baseball made ​​it Blue 1971 in the starting rotation at the A's. This season he scored 24 victories against only eight defeats and reached a earned run average of 1.82, for which he won the Cy Young Award and was voted Most Valuable Player.

After the 1983 season was Blue that he had used cocaine, and interrupted his career for a year. In 1985 he was a witness at a trial in which the drug use of many MLB players was investigated.