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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he Oakland A’s will play their final home game this week — a long-anticipated, sold-out event that will be an adventure in mass catharsis: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12004485/oakland-as-athletics-leaving-last-games\">surges of grief\u003c/a> and anger and loss mixed with waves of gratitude from the team’s tight-knit community of fans for everything A’s players and Coliseum workers have given them over the past 57 seasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It couldn’t be more different from the A’s departure from Philadelphia, their original hometown: Hardly anyone came to say goodbye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a gloomy September Sunday 70 years ago, near the end of a season \u003cem>The\u003c/em> \u003cem>Philadelphia Inquirer\u003c/em> summed up with one word — “dismal” — the Athletics lost to the Yankees in a virtually empty ballpark. On the team’s next opening day, they were playing halfway across the continent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why wasn’t the scene at Philadelphia’s Connie Mack Stadium even a little dramatic as the Athletics’ time in the city ended?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long before the end of the 1954 season, Philadelphians knew the A’s were in trouble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006261\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 989px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006261\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-515249186-e1727219834744.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"989\" height=\"665\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-515249186-e1727219834744.jpg 989w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-515249186-e1727219834744-800x538.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-515249186-e1727219834744-160x108.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 989px) 100vw, 989px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Connie Mack, the Philadelphia Athletics’ 86-year-old owner and manager, emerges from the dugout at New York’s Yankee Stadium during an event held in his honor, Aug. 21, 1949. \u003ccite>(Bettmann/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The team, owned by legendary manager Connie Mack and two of his sons, Roy and Earle, was broke. City officials and community leaders joined in a “Save the A’s” campaign to stoke enthusiasm for a team with a storied past: nine American League pennants, five World Series championships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The A’s let it be known in mid-season that if they could draw 550,000 paying customers, they’d have a shot at avoiding bankruptcy and a sale that could well result in the team moving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the A’s were a very bad team that had been, with few exceptions, very bad for a very long time. In the previous 20 seasons, the team had won more games than it lost only four times and never finished better than fourth in the eight-team league. The team’s customary finish was last place, and in 1954, it was headed there again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The A’s kept announcing, ‘We need so many people per game to come so we can reach our 550,000 fans,’ and the fans just kept ignoring it,” says Bob Warrington, a Philadelphia baseball historian who’s \u003ca href=\"https://sabr.org/journal/article/departure-without-dignity-the-athletics-leave-philadelphia/\">written about the A’s departure\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think what the A’s failed to realize, certainly Roy and Earle, was that baseball fans are not customers,” Warrington says. “They’re fans, they’re supporters. And you can’t threaten them into coming to the ballpark by saying, ‘If you don’t come, you know, we may not be here next year.’ You’ve got to encourage them to come.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006259\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006259\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-493927566.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"794\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-493927566.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-493927566-800x620.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-493927566-1020x791.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-493927566-160x124.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Philadelphia Athletics’ Jimmy Foxx is congratulated after hitting a home run during Game 4 of the 1931 World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals at Shibe Park, Oct. 6, 1931. \u003ccite>(The Stanley Weston Archive/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So the “Save the A’s” campaign fizzled, even as an out-of-town bidder made a highly publicized offer to buy the team and relocate to Kansas City. As autumn neared and the New York Yankees arrived for the season’s last home series, attendance stood at just under 300,000 — a little more than half what the A’s said they’d need to avoid financial disaster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Yankees won the first two games in front of tiny crowds on Friday and Saturday. The attendance on Sunday, Sept. 19 was even lower — just 1,715 fans pushed through the turnstiles — as the Yankees swept the series. It was just another loss in a season that everyone wanted to forget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within days, the American League would open talks on the future of the franchise. In early November, Connie Mack and his sons sold the team to — and the league approved the franchise’s transfer to — Kansas City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why did it come to this? Did the A’s have to leave? Here are some of the major factors:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Dismantling the champions\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Connie Mack had built two dynasties during his half-century running the A’s — one that reigned from 1910–14, the other from 1929–1931. Driven by concerns over the team’s financial prospects, he dismantled both. After 1931, Bob Warrington says, “Mack decided that he could do what he had done before with the first dynasty — sell off his best players and then build a new one. The problem is it didn’t work this time. The selloff of the second dynasty signaled the end of the Athletics as a team that could compete for the American League pennant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006270\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006270\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-515287368.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"799\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-515287368.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-515287368-800x624.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-515287368-1020x796.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-515287368-160x125.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Original caption: Cornelius MacGillicuddy, better known as Connie Mack, the famous manager of the Philadephia Athletics. \u003ccite>(Bettmann/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Lack of civic interest\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Retired University of Pennsylvania historian Bruce Kuklick says that one reason the Save the A’s campaign failed was the lack of interest on the part of Joe Clark, the mayor of Philadelphia, in 1954. Although Clark had signed on to the effort, Kuklick says his interest was half-hearted at best. “He was very much a Protestant aristocrat who … just didn’t give a shit about baseball.” Kuklick argues that the failure to do more to keep the team in Philadelphia was shortsighted and notes that many cities in the 1950s — including Kansas City — had realized the value of investing in professional sports as “an amenity” for residents. “One of my many gripes about what happened then is that he basically refused to have the city support the team in any way at all,” Kuklick says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Dynastic struggles\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mack’s longtime plan was to have his first male heirs, Earle and Roy, run the team when he was ready to step down. However, a disagreement over the direction of the A’s in 1950 led to a battle for control of the team. Roy and Earle succeeded in buying out other team shareholders and gaining, with their father, complete ownership of the team. But to raise the money, they were forced to mortgage the team’s stadium, Shibe Park, taking on a debt that would eventually sink them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006260\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006260\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-515142522.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"779\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-515142522.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-515142522-800x609.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-515142522-1020x776.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-515142522-160x122.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view of Shibe Park, the Philadelphia Athletics home from 1909-1954. The A’s played in seven World Series at the stadium: in 1910, 1911, 1913, 1914, 1929, 1930 and 1931. \u003ccite>(Bettmann/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Baseball’s changing landscape \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The National and American leagues and their 16 teams had been frozen in place for half a century through the early 1950s. That changed in the early 1950s as growing cities in the Midwest and West began seeking major league teams for themselves. Franchises in multi-team markets — New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston and St. Louis — were relocation candidates because, typically, one of the teams was struggling financially. Thus, the Boston Braves moved to Milwaukee in 1953, and the St. Louis Browns shifted to Baltimore and became the Orioles in 1954.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Mack in decline \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Connie Mack turned 80 at the end of 1942. As the decade progressed, historian Bruce Kuklick says, the “deterioration of Mack’s mind” became obvious in poor trade decisions, mistaken instructions to players during games, and eventually, failure of his memory. “By the late ’40s, he would call out the names of stars of bygone days to pinch-hit.” He was finally replaced as manager late in 1950.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite all of the factors weighing against the Athletics, though, the team’s sale and move out of Philadelphia was far from inevitable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of the 1954 season, American League owners, led by the New York Yankees, appeared ready to approve the sale of the team to a Chicago business executive and real estate speculator named Arnold Johnson, who was prepared to move the team to Kansas City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_12003029,news_12004485,news_11947286\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Macks were divided on whether to accept the offer and were twice granted more time to decide. With a league deadline approaching, Roy Mack agreed to join a group of local business owners who were ready to buy the A’s and keep the team in Philadelphia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But before the sale could be completed, Johnson intervened and promised Roy a bigger ownership stake in the team than he would have gotten from the Philadelphia group, along with a role running the team when it moved to Kansas City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As detailed in Warrington’s history of the deal, \u003cem>Departure Without Dignity: The Athletics Leave Philadelphia\u003c/em>, Roy essentially double-crossed his father, brother and the Philadelphia investors by voting against their proposal in a secret ballot of American League owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The A’s were Kansas City-bound.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Epilogue\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Kansas City scrambled to double the size of Municipal Stadium in time for the Athletics’ April home opener. The franchise beat its previous attendance record by nearly 50% in its first year in its new home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Kansas City version of the A’s was just as bad as its Philadelphia predecessor. Arnold Johnson didn’t field a competitive team after he moved the team in 1955, in large part because he developed a habit of trading away the team’s best young prospects to the New York Yankees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson died suddenly during spring training in 1960, and within a year, the Kansas City A’s had a new owner, Charles Oscar Finley, a Chicago-area insurance magnate who had been repeatedly frustrated in his bid to buy a team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the moment he gained ownership, he began trying to take the A’s elsewhere. The new homes he considered included Dallas-Fort Worth, Louisville, Milwaukee, Seattle and New Orleans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During seven seasons as the owner of the Kansas City A’s, he introduced colorful uniforms, adopted a mule as the team mascot, put sheep out to pasture beyond his stadium’s centerfield fence and watched as his team posted one lousy record after another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1967, the American League finally granted Finley permission to move to Oakland, leaving behind an angry Kansas City and beginning the 57-season era that ends in a mix of sorrow and outrage Thursday at the Coliseum. The team Finley brought with him, the product of his investment in young talent, was about to emerge as the one of the best in baseball history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006257\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006257\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-72377453.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"780\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-72377453.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-72377453-800x609.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-72377453-1020x777.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-72377453-160x122.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former President Harry Truman (center) is flanked by Lou Boudreau (left), manager of the Kansas City Athletics, and Bucky Harris, Senators manager, as he throws out the first ball for the A’s inaugural game in Municipal Stadium in April 1955. \u003ccite>(Mark Rucker/Transcendental Graphics via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Recommended reading\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://sabr.org/journal/article/departure-without-dignity-the-athletics-leave-philadelphia/\">\u003cem>Departure Without Dignity: The Athletics Leave Philadelphia\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, Bob Warrington’s 14,000-word article for the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691021041/to-every-thing-a-season\">\u003cem>To Everything a Season: Shibe Park and Urban Philadelphia\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, by University of Pennsylvania historian Bruce Kuklick.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9780803237650/the-grand-old-man-of-baseball/\">\u003cem>The Grand Old Man of Baseball: Connie Mack in His Final Years, 1932–1956\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>,\u003c/em> the final installment of a three-volume Mack biography by Norman L. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">T\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>he Oakland A’s will play their final home game this week — a long-anticipated, sold-out event that will be an adventure in mass catharsis: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12004485/oakland-as-athletics-leaving-last-games\">surges of grief\u003c/a> and anger and loss mixed with waves of gratitude from the team’s tight-knit community of fans for everything A’s players and Coliseum workers have given them over the past 57 seasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It couldn’t be more different from the A’s departure from Philadelphia, their original hometown: Hardly anyone came to say goodbye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a gloomy September Sunday 70 years ago, near the end of a season \u003cem>The\u003c/em> \u003cem>Philadelphia Inquirer\u003c/em> summed up with one word — “dismal” — the Athletics lost to the Yankees in a virtually empty ballpark. On the team’s next opening day, they were playing halfway across the continent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why wasn’t the scene at Philadelphia’s Connie Mack Stadium even a little dramatic as the Athletics’ time in the city ended?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long before the end of the 1954 season, Philadelphians knew the A’s were in trouble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006261\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 989px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006261\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-515249186-e1727219834744.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"989\" height=\"665\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-515249186-e1727219834744.jpg 989w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-515249186-e1727219834744-800x538.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-515249186-e1727219834744-160x108.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 989px) 100vw, 989px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Connie Mack, the Philadelphia Athletics’ 86-year-old owner and manager, emerges from the dugout at New York’s Yankee Stadium during an event held in his honor, Aug. 21, 1949. \u003ccite>(Bettmann/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The team, owned by legendary manager Connie Mack and two of his sons, Roy and Earle, was broke. City officials and community leaders joined in a “Save the A’s” campaign to stoke enthusiasm for a team with a storied past: nine American League pennants, five World Series championships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The A’s let it be known in mid-season that if they could draw 550,000 paying customers, they’d have a shot at avoiding bankruptcy and a sale that could well result in the team moving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the A’s were a very bad team that had been, with few exceptions, very bad for a very long time. In the previous 20 seasons, the team had won more games than it lost only four times and never finished better than fourth in the eight-team league. The team’s customary finish was last place, and in 1954, it was headed there again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The A’s kept announcing, ‘We need so many people per game to come so we can reach our 550,000 fans,’ and the fans just kept ignoring it,” says Bob Warrington, a Philadelphia baseball historian who’s \u003ca href=\"https://sabr.org/journal/article/departure-without-dignity-the-athletics-leave-philadelphia/\">written about the A’s departure\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think what the A’s failed to realize, certainly Roy and Earle, was that baseball fans are not customers,” Warrington says. “They’re fans, they’re supporters. And you can’t threaten them into coming to the ballpark by saying, ‘If you don’t come, you know, we may not be here next year.’ You’ve got to encourage them to come.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006259\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006259\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-493927566.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"794\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-493927566.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-493927566-800x620.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-493927566-1020x791.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-493927566-160x124.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Philadelphia Athletics’ Jimmy Foxx is congratulated after hitting a home run during Game 4 of the 1931 World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals at Shibe Park, Oct. 6, 1931. \u003ccite>(The Stanley Weston Archive/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So the “Save the A’s” campaign fizzled, even as an out-of-town bidder made a highly publicized offer to buy the team and relocate to Kansas City. As autumn neared and the New York Yankees arrived for the season’s last home series, attendance stood at just under 300,000 — a little more than half what the A’s said they’d need to avoid financial disaster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Yankees won the first two games in front of tiny crowds on Friday and Saturday. The attendance on Sunday, Sept. 19 was even lower — just 1,715 fans pushed through the turnstiles — as the Yankees swept the series. It was just another loss in a season that everyone wanted to forget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within days, the American League would open talks on the future of the franchise. In early November, Connie Mack and his sons sold the team to — and the league approved the franchise’s transfer to — Kansas City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why did it come to this? Did the A’s have to leave? Here are some of the major factors:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Dismantling the champions\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Connie Mack had built two dynasties during his half-century running the A’s — one that reigned from 1910–14, the other from 1929–1931. Driven by concerns over the team’s financial prospects, he dismantled both. After 1931, Bob Warrington says, “Mack decided that he could do what he had done before with the first dynasty — sell off his best players and then build a new one. The problem is it didn’t work this time. The selloff of the second dynasty signaled the end of the Athletics as a team that could compete for the American League pennant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006270\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006270\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-515287368.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"799\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-515287368.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-515287368-800x624.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-515287368-1020x796.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-515287368-160x125.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Original caption: Cornelius MacGillicuddy, better known as Connie Mack, the famous manager of the Philadephia Athletics. \u003ccite>(Bettmann/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Lack of civic interest\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Retired University of Pennsylvania historian Bruce Kuklick says that one reason the Save the A’s campaign failed was the lack of interest on the part of Joe Clark, the mayor of Philadelphia, in 1954. Although Clark had signed on to the effort, Kuklick says his interest was half-hearted at best. “He was very much a Protestant aristocrat who … just didn’t give a shit about baseball.” Kuklick argues that the failure to do more to keep the team in Philadelphia was shortsighted and notes that many cities in the 1950s — including Kansas City — had realized the value of investing in professional sports as “an amenity” for residents. “One of my many gripes about what happened then is that he basically refused to have the city support the team in any way at all,” Kuklick says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Dynastic struggles\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mack’s longtime plan was to have his first male heirs, Earle and Roy, run the team when he was ready to step down. However, a disagreement over the direction of the A’s in 1950 led to a battle for control of the team. Roy and Earle succeeded in buying out other team shareholders and gaining, with their father, complete ownership of the team. But to raise the money, they were forced to mortgage the team’s stadium, Shibe Park, taking on a debt that would eventually sink them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006260\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006260\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-515142522.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"779\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-515142522.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-515142522-800x609.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-515142522-1020x776.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-515142522-160x122.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view of Shibe Park, the Philadelphia Athletics home from 1909-1954. The A’s played in seven World Series at the stadium: in 1910, 1911, 1913, 1914, 1929, 1930 and 1931. \u003ccite>(Bettmann/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Baseball’s changing landscape \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The National and American leagues and their 16 teams had been frozen in place for half a century through the early 1950s. That changed in the early 1950s as growing cities in the Midwest and West began seeking major league teams for themselves. Franchises in multi-team markets — New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston and St. Louis — were relocation candidates because, typically, one of the teams was struggling financially. Thus, the Boston Braves moved to Milwaukee in 1953, and the St. Louis Browns shifted to Baltimore and became the Orioles in 1954.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Mack in decline \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Connie Mack turned 80 at the end of 1942. As the decade progressed, historian Bruce Kuklick says, the “deterioration of Mack’s mind” became obvious in poor trade decisions, mistaken instructions to players during games, and eventually, failure of his memory. “By the late ’40s, he would call out the names of stars of bygone days to pinch-hit.” He was finally replaced as manager late in 1950.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite all of the factors weighing against the Athletics, though, the team’s sale and move out of Philadelphia was far from inevitable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of the 1954 season, American League owners, led by the New York Yankees, appeared ready to approve the sale of the team to a Chicago business executive and real estate speculator named Arnold Johnson, who was prepared to move the team to Kansas City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Macks were divided on whether to accept the offer and were twice granted more time to decide. With a league deadline approaching, Roy Mack agreed to join a group of local business owners who were ready to buy the A’s and keep the team in Philadelphia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But before the sale could be completed, Johnson intervened and promised Roy a bigger ownership stake in the team than he would have gotten from the Philadelphia group, along with a role running the team when it moved to Kansas City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As detailed in Warrington’s history of the deal, \u003cem>Departure Without Dignity: The Athletics Leave Philadelphia\u003c/em>, Roy essentially double-crossed his father, brother and the Philadelphia investors by voting against their proposal in a secret ballot of American League owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The A’s were Kansas City-bound.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Epilogue\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Kansas City scrambled to double the size of Municipal Stadium in time for the Athletics’ April home opener. The franchise beat its previous attendance record by nearly 50% in its first year in its new home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Kansas City version of the A’s was just as bad as its Philadelphia predecessor. Arnold Johnson didn’t field a competitive team after he moved the team in 1955, in large part because he developed a habit of trading away the team’s best young prospects to the New York Yankees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson died suddenly during spring training in 1960, and within a year, the Kansas City A’s had a new owner, Charles Oscar Finley, a Chicago-area insurance magnate who had been repeatedly frustrated in his bid to buy a team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the moment he gained ownership, he began trying to take the A’s elsewhere. The new homes he considered included Dallas-Fort Worth, Louisville, Milwaukee, Seattle and New Orleans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During seven seasons as the owner of the Kansas City A’s, he introduced colorful uniforms, adopted a mule as the team mascot, put sheep out to pasture beyond his stadium’s centerfield fence and watched as his team posted one lousy record after another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1967, the American League finally granted Finley permission to move to Oakland, leaving behind an angry Kansas City and beginning the 57-season era that ends in a mix of sorrow and outrage Thursday at the Coliseum. The team Finley brought with him, the product of his investment in young talent, was about to emerge as the one of the best in baseball history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006257\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006257\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-72377453.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"780\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-72377453.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-72377453-800x609.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-72377453-1020x777.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-72377453-160x122.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former President Harry Truman (center) is flanked by Lou Boudreau (left), manager of the Kansas City Athletics, and Bucky Harris, Senators manager, as he throws out the first ball for the A’s inaugural game in Municipal Stadium in April 1955. \u003ccite>(Mark Rucker/Transcendental Graphics via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Recommended reading\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://sabr.org/journal/article/departure-without-dignity-the-athletics-leave-philadelphia/\">\u003cem>Departure Without Dignity: The Athletics Leave Philadelphia\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, Bob Warrington’s 14,000-word article for the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691021041/to-every-thing-a-season\">\u003cem>To Everything a Season: Shibe Park and Urban Philadelphia\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, by University of Pennsylvania historian Bruce Kuklick.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9780803237650/the-grand-old-man-of-baseball/\">\u003cem>The Grand Old Man of Baseball: Connie Mack in His Final Years, 1932–1956\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>,\u003c/em> the final installment of a three-volume Mack biography by Norman L. Macht.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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But the posts coming out of \u003ca href=\"https://writeforcalifornia.com/p/flowers-to-cal-twitter-a-community\">Cal Twitter\u003c/a>, as the community on the social media platform now called X is known, have quickly garnered national attention amid the Golden Bears’ hot start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the teams’ Sept. 7 matchup, Auburn and Cal fans jabbed back and forth on social media, with some pro-Auburn posts remarking that Cal wasn’t likely to have a big group of supporters traveling to the game. They were “likely too busy thinking of a new woke topic that hurts their feels to travel to Alabama,” one X user \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/spanx_ftw/status/1831051179801051325\">said\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Cal pulled off an upset 21-14 win at Jordan-Hare Stadium — now “property of antifa,” as \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/terencelau/status/1832882511665308062\">one meme declared\u003c/a> — where the stands seemed to have a small but mighty \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/avinashkunnath/status/1832531739203285018\">blue and gold\u003c/a> contingency. Cal Twitter responded, leaning into the “woke” stereotypes about Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reputation that Cal has as a fairly left leaning progressive institution since a long time ago — people try to use it against us, especially in the South,” said Mike Davie, known as “\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/linusalf\">Mike the Hot Dog Mayor\u003c/a>” on X.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We kind of flipped the script on that, like, ‘That’s right, and we’re coming armed with pronouns and woke flags.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the game, \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/golDonbear/status/1832555206569292233\">a meme\u003c/a> showing a Democratic-winning election map overlaid with images of Kamala Harris, a rainbow, players including quarterback Fernando Mendoza, and mascot Oski the bear circulated within Cal’s community of “burner” accounts on X. “You just lost to the woke agenda,” it declared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/golDonbear/status/1832555206569292233\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More memes started flowing, riffing on jokes about Cal students’ reputations for holding far-left and even communist beliefs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pretty quickly it went from just like small California or Alabama stereotypes to just full on ‘We’re going to make fun of you for being quote-unquote “out of touch,” and then at the same time, we’re going to make fun of ourselves a little bit for for going a little too far into the woke ideology,’” said the person behind the X account “\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/wokemobfootball\">Liberal Calgorithm\u003c/a>,” who uses the handle @wokemobfootball to keep posts separate from work and personal life and did not want to be identified. “I think by the time we had won, all hell had broken loose, and the ‘\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/terencelau/status/1832882511665308062\">Antifa Stadium\u003c/a>’ [meme] had been dropped.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Bears fans are focused on another road trip to unfamiliar territory ahead of Saturday afternoon’s game at Florida State. 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Team staffers Marshall Cherrington and Benji Palu have dropped by one of their tailgates, and the quarterback, Mendoza, appeared for a post-game interview wearing a T-shirt from a line started by one of the burners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One player’s dad even said he thought the memes about his son were hilarious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davie said being connected to the wider community helps make sure that burners are kept in check when they post edgier jokes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11959989 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/GettyImages-1443354055-1020x701.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the accounts meme-ing about diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives and communist ideology are also interspersed with left-leaning political content — links to Kamala Harris’s campaign website, for example, and a repost of the Miami Heat denouncing disproved claims about Haitian immigrants after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12004928/are-journalists-too-timid-in-holding-trump-and-harris-accountable\">former President Donald Trump falsely said\u003c/a> during a Sept. 10 debate that they were eating pets in Ohio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think one of the best ways that we have of ensuring that we toe the line is that we do have a very diverse group of people in our community who all have very wildly different experiences and can kind of jump in,” @wokemobfootball said. “What we aim not to do is punch down on people, whether they’re people of color or gay or trans — the point of the joke is mostly specifically to make fun of the other person’s ideology.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the torrent of posts threatening to bring communist football and California’s woke agenda doesn’t seem likely to let up anytime soon, Davie said at the end of the day, it’s all for the love of the game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If this whole thing was for a Cal [versus] Florida State game in Berkeley this Saturday, we would welcome Florida State fans,” he said. “’Hey, have a beer, have a shot of Malört, we have a massive food spread and enjoy yourselves.’ We’re good people here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>In his first press appearance since being named head coach of the College of Alameda men’s basketball team, former NBA star Gary Payton Sr. pledged his commitment to pushing the team toward victory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision to hire Payton was \u003ca href=\"https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/41166128/sources-gary-payton-sr-new-basketball-coach-college-alameda\">announced earlier this month\u003c/a>, following the junior college team’s 7-21 season in the Bay Valley Conference last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I knew that if we got the right person in here, this could be an amazing sports town, an amazing experience for our student athletes,” Ramaundo Vaughn, the school’s athletic director, said at a press conference on Thursday. “Gary genuinely wanted to give back, genuinely wanted to serve the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Payton, who grew up in Oakland and attended Skyline High School, played 17 seasons as a point guard in the NBA, primarily with the Seattle SuperSonics, along with brief stints on the Los Angeles Lakers, Boston Celtics and Miami Heat. In 1996, he became the first point guard to be awarded defensive player of the year. He was named an NBA all-star player nine times and was\u003ca href=\"https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/nba/gary-payton-inducted-into-hall-of-fame/\"> inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame\u003c/a> in 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Payton was previously the head basketball coach at Lincoln University, departing earlier this year after three seasons, reportedly \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/2024/04/23/gary-payton-out-lincoln-university-oaklanders/72808933007/\">amid mounting tensions with the school and its leadership\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, Payton said it was important for him to serve the community he grew up in. He added that he wanted to be a father figure for players on the team and help provide them with the resources and stability they need to excel both on and off the court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m going to get people in here that are going to play basketball, but for sure, they’re going to go to school,” Payton said. “I don’t want my kids to come in here and just think about basketball because not all of them are going to be basketball pros. But they’re going to have to be men. Young men who have to grow up and understand how to raise a family and do things like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Payton, who begins officially leading practices with the Cougars next month when the new season starts, said he would expect a lot of his players but promised to give them a lot back in return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m gonna change this place around,” he said. “It’s gonna take a little time, but you guys come out, and you’re going to see the difference that we’re going to make here. And that’s all I want.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esubalow Thomas, a College of Alameda student who plays for the Cougars, said the prospect of Payton leading the team has been a big motivator for him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a great opportunity to have this NBA legend coaching us,” Thomas said. “I’m very proud to have him as our coach and supporting Alameda. Playing for him, every day you come here, you want to give 100%.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>With the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland-as\">Oakland A’s just weeks away from permanently leaving the Bay Area\u003c/a>, fans of the ballclub — including myself — have been feeling a range of emotions, to say the least.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The A’s ownership announced in April 2023 that the team planned to develop a stadium in Las Vegas in time for the 2028 season and move out of Oakland. Since then, fans of many different depths of devotion have experienced \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967603/oakland-as-relocation-to-las-vegas-sparks-outrage-among-fans\">anger\u003c/a>, grief, disbelief and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11947286/devastated-oakland-as-fans-react-to-teams-vegas-move\">sadness\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while many fans thought they had a few years to process the news and prepare mentally for the move, the team’s last season in Oakland is now upon us. As various proposals to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11981876/oakland-as-relocate-to-sacramento-river-cats-home-stadium-for-3-seasons\">keep the team\u003c/a> in Oakland for longer failed, the team’s current plan is to play temporarily in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11981876/oakland-as-relocate-to-sacramento-river-cats-home-stadium-for-3-seasons\">West Sacramento\u003c/a> before heading to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11949532/oakland-as-signal-move-to-las-vegas-strip-after-reaching-an-agreement-for-potential-stadium-site\">Vegas\u003c/a> after 57 years in the Town. The A’s last game in Oakland is Sept. 26.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12004530\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-1250054983.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12004530\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-1250054983.jpg\" alt=\"Men and women wearing green and yellow clothing in a stadium stand while holding a sign that reads "We Love You Oakland A's."\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-1250054983.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-1250054983-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-1250054983-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-1250054983-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Athletics fans hold up a banner during the game between the Los Angeles Angels and the Oakland Athletics at RingCentral Coliseum on Thursday, March 30, 2023, in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Suzanna Mitchell/MLB Photos via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So, with just six more A’s games left to be played at Oakland Coliseum, what’s a fan to do? Or if you’re a friend or family member of a fan going through it, how can you be supportive in this moment?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We spoke with experts in grief, psychology and sports fandom to explore how and why fans might be hurting. Keep reading for tips about how you might consider processing the waves of feelings resulting from the reality of the team pulling up stakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Acknowledge — don’t discount — your feelings\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>First thing first: A’s fans should acknowledge their feelings as honestly as possible, without judging themselves for feeling the way they do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because a team and a sport can become embedded in your identity — and serve as a major part of your mental well-being.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sport matters to people as fans in deep, important and profound ways,” said \u003ca href=\"https://www.murraystate.edu/academics/CollegesDepartments/CollegeOfHumanitiesAndFineArts/Psychology/Faculty/DWannFacInfo.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Wann\u003c/a>, a psychology professor at Murray State University in Kentucky, who studies the psychology of sports fandom. “It helps meet basic psychological needs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For A’s fans, Wann said, the team can help them meet “the need to belong, the need for distinctness, the search for meaning in life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The feelings are only intensified when fans put years, decades or even generations into supporting their team, which becomes woven into the fabric of their lives where it’s often associated with family members and friend circles. Teams and players also cultivate relationships with fans and the local community in person and on social media, helping to establish deeper connections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And when the team goes, it’s like you’ve lost a loved one,” Wann said. “A part of their identity — an important, central, critical part of their identity — is ripped away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is a loss, plain and simple. It is a psychological loss.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.transforminggriefpsychotherapy.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wendy Rolón\u003c/a>, a licensed marriage and family therapist specializing in grief counseling based in Oakland, says fans should know that feeling sad about the team leaving is normal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think grief is definitely the right word,” Rolón said. “It’s not bereavement — that’s more explicit. But I consider grief to be about loss.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t have to be about a death,” she said. “It’s not something to be pushed away. It’s not something to be avoided.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Watch out for other feelings of loss welling up, and understand the importance of the A’s to you\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Be prepared for it to matter to you — maybe even more than you thought,” Wann said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some fans underestimate the depth of their feelings — and therefore the depth of their loss — and that can catch people by surprise. The grief you feel is the result of important things being taken away from you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And it’s OK because you’re not alone,” Wann said. “There are a lot of other fans who probably feel that way as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rolón says that other grief from past losses can surface whenever a new loss occurs, even if it seems unrelated. For A’s fans, especially those whose fandom is wrapped up in family history or lore, the loss of the team might spur older feelings of loss of another person or past relationship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And you feel like, ‘Am I losing my mind? I thought I was getting over that. And now, all of a sudden, I’m back thinking about my grandpa,’ she said. “So it’s all connected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Don’t let others tell you how to feel about the A’s\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Everyone is at a different place regarding continuing their relationship with the A’s, and those feelings are rarely neat and tidy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12000673\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-53_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12000673\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-53_qed.jpg\" alt=\"Wide shot of green grass on a baseball field with blue sky overhead.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-53_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-53_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-53_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-53_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-53_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-53_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland Coliseum stadium hosts the final Battle of the Bay game between the A’s and the Giants at the Oakland Coliseum on Aug. 18, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some fans have long ago sworn off attending more A’s games at the Coliseum and plan to sever their fandom after the team moves out of town. Others will continue to follow the team loyally, like some \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13871579/the-raiders-leave-oakland-and-to-hell-with-your-feelings\">Raiders fans\u003c/a>, while many others may remain undecided for a time on whether to continue supporting or take a more nuanced approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s important to remember your personal coping strategy may be different than someone else’s, so don’t judge others and don’t let others tell you how you should feel in the wake of the loss — according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.athmindset.io/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lisa Bonta Sumii\u003c/a>, a licensed clinical social worker and mental performance coach for the Oakland Roots SC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Grief goes up and down. There are so many levels of what grief can be: Denial, anger, depression, acceptance,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We go around and back and through, and it’s a circular process not to be judged as right or wrong, but it’s your own. It’s your own process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Consider marking the end with a ritual\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Bonta Sumii says it’s easier for people to process a loss if we mark it with a ritual of some kind, akin to a funeral or celebration of life services for a person who has died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It could be a watch party, a block party or tailgating,” Bonta Sumii said. Creating a commemorative event, such as putting together a remembrance slideshow of the best A’s moments for you, your friends, family and neighbors can be cathartic and helpful. For example, an A’s fan group, Last Dive Bar, is \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LastDiveBar/status/1832094620257599534\">hosting a “wake”\u003c/a> for the team at Line 51 Brewing Company in Oakland after the last home game of the year on Sept. 26.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of solely focusing on the loss at hand, reminisce about the good memories the team has brought you and your circles — as well as what it’s brought the city of Oakland and the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Use the moment as an opportunity to talk about loss in your family or friends group\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Rolón says fans might be feeling like the A’s have a “terminal diagnosis” because of the amount of time they’ve had to see the end coming. And while it \u003ci>is \u003c/i>sad, this situation offers a chance to reduce the taboo around feeling sad or dealing with loss openly in families and friend groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Life is change, and it’s filled with saying goodbye to things all the time — all these little griefs that are the real throughline of our existence,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of trying to forget or shut out an important part of your life, you can turn the loss into a teachable moment. “Things aren’t permanent. We are not permanent. This is all kind of passing by,” Rolón said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So how do we honor the stuff that we love after we’ve lost it?” she asked. “How do we stick together and have it be OK to talk about stuff?”’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similar to how some cultures honor their dead loved ones with rituals annually, A’s fans could choose to have regular celebrations of their former home team, Rolón said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta Sumii says while these kinds of celebrations or rituals can be group gatherings, like barbecues and get-togethers with other fans and family, they can also be private — like scrapbooking or journaling about your thoughts related to the team.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Consider new avenues for your fandom\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The experts we spoke with say while you cannot replace the A’s, you can find new ways to channel the energy, love and passion you had for the team into other activities and reestablish feelings of belonging, emotional well-being and connection to others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because people’s reasons for becoming and staying a fan of a team are unique, there will be a variety of different ways for fans to try and capture similar feelings in other ways — and in different locations:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you want to continue following baseball or other sports locally, you could find a new team to support, like the Oakland Ballers or the Oakland Roots or collegiate baseball teams around the Bay Area.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fans who are able could join a recreational baseball or softball team in their area or start a new team with their friends and family.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bonta Sumii says other good options include coaching a sport, like a youth baseball team or volunteering to support young athletes coming up in the Bay Area.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“When someone’s spouse leaves them, the most frequent thought is, ‘No one will ever love me again, and I will never love again.’ And it is amazing how many people get loved again and love again,” Wann said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So I would just tell A’s fans: you’re probably going to have to have a mourning period,” Wann said. “You don’t want to jump on the rebound team, but something will replace that. Something will fill that void. Maybe not completely and maybe not in the same way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Know that professional help is available — if you need it\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If some of these coping strategies and ideas for other activities aren’t enough to help you feel more at peace, you can seek out professional help if you think you need it.[aside postID=\"news_11947286,news_12003029,news_11981232\" label=\"Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rolón says if you are having “ruminating thoughts,” or if you feel like you’re flooded with anger all the time, are getting insomnia, lose your appetite or arguing with a spouse or family member often, those could be cues that you should talk to a therapist or counselor who can help you manage these reactions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta Sumii said while feeling a range of emotions is normal, if you are talking negatively frequently or using drugs or alcohol to numb your feelings, you should consider seeking professional advice. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13881725/where-to-find-affordable-culturally-competent-therapy-in-bay-area-and-beyond\">See KQED’s 2020 list of affordable, culturally competent therapy options in the Bay Area.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also \u003ca href=\"https://988lifeline.org/\">call or text 988\u003c/a>, the free 24/7 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, if you are experiencing a mental health crisis or emotional distress.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>With the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland-as\">Oakland A’s just weeks away from permanently leaving the Bay Area\u003c/a>, fans of the ballclub — including myself — have been feeling a range of emotions, to say the least.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The A’s ownership announced in April 2023 that the team planned to develop a stadium in Las Vegas in time for the 2028 season and move out of Oakland. Since then, fans of many different depths of devotion have experienced \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967603/oakland-as-relocation-to-las-vegas-sparks-outrage-among-fans\">anger\u003c/a>, grief, disbelief and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11947286/devastated-oakland-as-fans-react-to-teams-vegas-move\">sadness\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while many fans thought they had a few years to process the news and prepare mentally for the move, the team’s last season in Oakland is now upon us. As various proposals to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11981876/oakland-as-relocate-to-sacramento-river-cats-home-stadium-for-3-seasons\">keep the team\u003c/a> in Oakland for longer failed, the team’s current plan is to play temporarily in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11981876/oakland-as-relocate-to-sacramento-river-cats-home-stadium-for-3-seasons\">West Sacramento\u003c/a> before heading to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11949532/oakland-as-signal-move-to-las-vegas-strip-after-reaching-an-agreement-for-potential-stadium-site\">Vegas\u003c/a> after 57 years in the Town. The A’s last game in Oakland is Sept. 26.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12004530\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-1250054983.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12004530\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-1250054983.jpg\" alt=\"Men and women wearing green and yellow clothing in a stadium stand while holding a sign that reads "We Love You Oakland A's."\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-1250054983.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-1250054983-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-1250054983-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-1250054983-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Athletics fans hold up a banner during the game between the Los Angeles Angels and the Oakland Athletics at RingCentral Coliseum on Thursday, March 30, 2023, in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Suzanna Mitchell/MLB Photos via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So, with just six more A’s games left to be played at Oakland Coliseum, what’s a fan to do? Or if you’re a friend or family member of a fan going through it, how can you be supportive in this moment?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We spoke with experts in grief, psychology and sports fandom to explore how and why fans might be hurting. Keep reading for tips about how you might consider processing the waves of feelings resulting from the reality of the team pulling up stakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Acknowledge — don’t discount — your feelings\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>First thing first: A’s fans should acknowledge their feelings as honestly as possible, without judging themselves for feeling the way they do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because a team and a sport can become embedded in your identity — and serve as a major part of your mental well-being.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sport matters to people as fans in deep, important and profound ways,” said \u003ca href=\"https://www.murraystate.edu/academics/CollegesDepartments/CollegeOfHumanitiesAndFineArts/Psychology/Faculty/DWannFacInfo.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Wann\u003c/a>, a psychology professor at Murray State University in Kentucky, who studies the psychology of sports fandom. “It helps meet basic psychological needs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For A’s fans, Wann said, the team can help them meet “the need to belong, the need for distinctness, the search for meaning in life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The feelings are only intensified when fans put years, decades or even generations into supporting their team, which becomes woven into the fabric of their lives where it’s often associated with family members and friend circles. Teams and players also cultivate relationships with fans and the local community in person and on social media, helping to establish deeper connections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And when the team goes, it’s like you’ve lost a loved one,” Wann said. “A part of their identity — an important, central, critical part of their identity — is ripped away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is a loss, plain and simple. It is a psychological loss.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.transforminggriefpsychotherapy.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wendy Rolón\u003c/a>, a licensed marriage and family therapist specializing in grief counseling based in Oakland, says fans should know that feeling sad about the team leaving is normal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think grief is definitely the right word,” Rolón said. “It’s not bereavement — that’s more explicit. But I consider grief to be about loss.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t have to be about a death,” she said. “It’s not something to be pushed away. It’s not something to be avoided.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Watch out for other feelings of loss welling up, and understand the importance of the A’s to you\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Be prepared for it to matter to you — maybe even more than you thought,” Wann said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some fans underestimate the depth of their feelings — and therefore the depth of their loss — and that can catch people by surprise. The grief you feel is the result of important things being taken away from you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And it’s OK because you’re not alone,” Wann said. “There are a lot of other fans who probably feel that way as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rolón says that other grief from past losses can surface whenever a new loss occurs, even if it seems unrelated. For A’s fans, especially those whose fandom is wrapped up in family history or lore, the loss of the team might spur older feelings of loss of another person or past relationship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And you feel like, ‘Am I losing my mind? I thought I was getting over that. And now, all of a sudden, I’m back thinking about my grandpa,’ she said. “So it’s all connected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Don’t let others tell you how to feel about the A’s\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Everyone is at a different place regarding continuing their relationship with the A’s, and those feelings are rarely neat and tidy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12000673\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-53_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12000673\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-53_qed.jpg\" alt=\"Wide shot of green grass on a baseball field with blue sky overhead.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-53_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-53_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-53_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-53_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-53_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-53_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland Coliseum stadium hosts the final Battle of the Bay game between the A’s and the Giants at the Oakland Coliseum on Aug. 18, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some fans have long ago sworn off attending more A’s games at the Coliseum and plan to sever their fandom after the team moves out of town. Others will continue to follow the team loyally, like some \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13871579/the-raiders-leave-oakland-and-to-hell-with-your-feelings\">Raiders fans\u003c/a>, while many others may remain undecided for a time on whether to continue supporting or take a more nuanced approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s important to remember your personal coping strategy may be different than someone else’s, so don’t judge others and don’t let others tell you how you should feel in the wake of the loss — according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.athmindset.io/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lisa Bonta Sumii\u003c/a>, a licensed clinical social worker and mental performance coach for the Oakland Roots SC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Grief goes up and down. There are so many levels of what grief can be: Denial, anger, depression, acceptance,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We go around and back and through, and it’s a circular process not to be judged as right or wrong, but it’s your own. It’s your own process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Consider marking the end with a ritual\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Bonta Sumii says it’s easier for people to process a loss if we mark it with a ritual of some kind, akin to a funeral or celebration of life services for a person who has died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It could be a watch party, a block party or tailgating,” Bonta Sumii said. Creating a commemorative event, such as putting together a remembrance slideshow of the best A’s moments for you, your friends, family and neighbors can be cathartic and helpful. For example, an A’s fan group, Last Dive Bar, is \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LastDiveBar/status/1832094620257599534\">hosting a “wake”\u003c/a> for the team at Line 51 Brewing Company in Oakland after the last home game of the year on Sept. 26.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of solely focusing on the loss at hand, reminisce about the good memories the team has brought you and your circles — as well as what it’s brought the city of Oakland and the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Use the moment as an opportunity to talk about loss in your family or friends group\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Rolón says fans might be feeling like the A’s have a “terminal diagnosis” because of the amount of time they’ve had to see the end coming. And while it \u003ci>is \u003c/i>sad, this situation offers a chance to reduce the taboo around feeling sad or dealing with loss openly in families and friend groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Life is change, and it’s filled with saying goodbye to things all the time — all these little griefs that are the real throughline of our existence,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of trying to forget or shut out an important part of your life, you can turn the loss into a teachable moment. “Things aren’t permanent. We are not permanent. This is all kind of passing by,” Rolón said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So how do we honor the stuff that we love after we’ve lost it?” she asked. “How do we stick together and have it be OK to talk about stuff?”’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similar to how some cultures honor their dead loved ones with rituals annually, A’s fans could choose to have regular celebrations of their former home team, Rolón said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta Sumii says while these kinds of celebrations or rituals can be group gatherings, like barbecues and get-togethers with other fans and family, they can also be private — like scrapbooking or journaling about your thoughts related to the team.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Consider new avenues for your fandom\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The experts we spoke with say while you cannot replace the A’s, you can find new ways to channel the energy, love and passion you had for the team into other activities and reestablish feelings of belonging, emotional well-being and connection to others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because people’s reasons for becoming and staying a fan of a team are unique, there will be a variety of different ways for fans to try and capture similar feelings in other ways — and in different locations:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you want to continue following baseball or other sports locally, you could find a new team to support, like the Oakland Ballers or the Oakland Roots or collegiate baseball teams around the Bay Area.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fans who are able could join a recreational baseball or softball team in their area or start a new team with their friends and family.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bonta Sumii says other good options include coaching a sport, like a youth baseball team or volunteering to support young athletes coming up in the Bay Area.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“When someone’s spouse leaves them, the most frequent thought is, ‘No one will ever love me again, and I will never love again.’ And it is amazing how many people get loved again and love again,” Wann said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So I would just tell A’s fans: you’re probably going to have to have a mourning period,” Wann said. “You don’t want to jump on the rebound team, but something will replace that. Something will fill that void. Maybe not completely and maybe not in the same way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Know that professional help is available — if you need it\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If some of these coping strategies and ideas for other activities aren’t enough to help you feel more at peace, you can seek out professional help if you think you need it.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Local East Oakland high school students have some ideas for the new owners of the Oakland Coliseum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last weekend, the African American Sports and Entertainment Group became the official owners after \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">reaching sale agreements for both the city of Oakland’s and A’s shares of \u003c/span>the former home of the Oakland Raiders and the stadium the Oakland Athletics will vacate at the end of the month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AASEG now faces the daunting task of designing a site that it has told East Oakland residents will revitalize the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lilly Jacobson’s 11th-grade urban design students at Castlemont High School envision a community fair set up on a grassy plaza, a BART station flanked by affordable housing and a shopping center and apartments with playgrounds within walking distance of a grocery store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past four years, Jacobson’s classes have collected surveys from more than 700 community members. Many students live in the area surrounding the Coliseum, and more than 99% of the school’s population is low-income, according to EdData. Nearly 98% identify as a member of a minority group, according to DataQuest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They have plenty of big ideas to share with the developers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think everybody assumes that because rent is so expensive that everybody wants — and everybody does want — affordable housing, but we need more than that to actually grow the local economy,” Jacobson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003027\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12003027\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/OaklandColiseumSaleAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/OaklandColiseumSaleAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/OaklandColiseumSaleAP-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/OaklandColiseumSaleAP-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/OaklandColiseumSaleAP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/OaklandColiseumSaleAP-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/OaklandColiseumSaleAP-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fans walk outside of the Oakland Coliseum before a baseball game between the Oakland Athletics and the San Francisco Giants on Aug. 5, 2023. With the Coliseum sale finalized, an East Bay community group urges the new owners to “commit to a strong, legally binding agreement prioritizing East Oakland residents and workers.” \u003ccite>(Jeff Chiu/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since 2020, juniors at Castlemont High School have spent a semester simulating the development process. They have walked through the Coliseum and interviewed Ray Bobbitt, the AASEG founder. They collected community feedback, designed 3-D renderings of the site and presented their final plans at a 2023 showcase that Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao and multiple city council members attended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oftentimes, those young people’s voices aren’t part of the discussion, and that’s really what this project is for,” said Shonda Scott, one of the entertainment group’s members. “It’s not for us to sit under the shade of the trees; it’s for us to put the trees up and then have shade for the next generation. This is a legacy project.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AASEG’s deal with the city requires community input. The organization has to negotiate a bundle of community benefits with community coalitions, which Bobbitt said will include students, along with legacy groups like the Black Cultural Zone, Elderhood of Brothers, local youth centers and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s important to us that people who have historically not been at the table, that have historically been impacted by the developments, are at the table,” Bobbitt, AASEG’s managing partner, told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12003029 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/450906876_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AASEG has already committed to making 25% of any housing built affordable. Other requirements will be hammered out beginning in the next five years. Eventually, the group will sign an agreement with a subset of these stakeholders, legally requiring them to include certain elements in their development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s important to Bobbitt that there are a lot of voices around the bargaining table when these choices are made because, as Castlemont students have discovered, it’s not only the obvious things — affordable housing and jobs — that residents are hoping for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The No. 1 answer to Jacobson’s class survey, which asks people their top three priorities for the development, is access to food. More than 400 people want a nearby grocery store and restaurants. Survey respondents ranked a desire for commercial space and entertainment opportunities closely behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Young people want things to do in their own community, like movie theaters, arcade — things that are fun, because East Oakland does not have a lot of that,” she told KQED. “There’s been so much disinvestment that all of the fun stuff has left. Students have to go to San Leandro or Hayward to go to the movies or the mall.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oracle Arena is great, but my kids can’t always afford tickets to go to a big concert. They can go to a movie if there was a movie theater,” she continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, housing is also a priority for many people the students surveyed, and it’s a focus of the East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy, an organization of the Oakland United Coalition that AASEG is also working with on the benefits agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The three main issues that we would like to see in the community benefits agreement that we feel would have a long-lasting impact are creating job opportunities, creating stable housing and creating an environment that’s going to be healthy for our children and our elders,” said Saabir Lockett, EBASE’s deputy director of civic engagement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other priorities that ranked high on Castlemont’s study include community resources, job opportunities, libraries, medical centers, parks and pools. 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He was transferred to San Francisco General Hospital for treatment of his injuries, including a gunshot wound he suffered during a physical struggle with Pearsall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The teen’s parents were in the courtroom, as were representatives of Pearsall’s family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dunlap clarified that the teen would be held in San Francisco and would likely be sentenced in San Joaquin County, where he would face another unrelated charge. Dunlap couldn’t confirm what kind of gun was used in the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins charged the teen with attempted murder, assault with a semiautomatic weapon and attempted second-degree robbery. 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They’ll play at least the next three years at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982386/what-the-as-temporary-move-to-sacramento-means-for-fans\">a minor league park in West Sacramento\u003c/a> as they plan to build a ballpark on the Las Vegas Strip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But before any of that happens, the A’s still have a handful of games left at the Oakland Coliseum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team announced \u003ca href=\"https://www.si.com/mlb/athletics/news/a-s-announce-final-game-at-coliseum-is-sold-out-01j4sfc0ahkn\">a few weeks ago\u003c/a> that the final game, a Thursday afternoon contest against the Texas Rangers, was sold out. But the sellout isn’t all it appears to be, as the team chose not to open the Coliseum’s so-called Mount Davis with its 8,100 seats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003138\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12003138\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240818_LastBoB_GC-42_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240818_LastBoB_GC-42_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240818_LastBoB_GC-42_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240818_LastBoB_GC-42_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240818_LastBoB_GC-42_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240818_LastBoB_GC-42_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240818_LastBoB_GC-42_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fans cheer during the final Battle of the Bay game between the A’s and the Giants at the Oakland Coliseum on Aug. 18, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The apparent reason is that Mount Davis, erected in the mid-1990s to accommodate the Oakland Raiders’ return from Los Angeles and colloquially named for late Raiders’ owner Al Davis, has been closed since before the pandemic and reportedly requires a significant cleanup to be fit for fans. We say “apparent” and “reportedly” because the A’s have declined to comment on the record about their decision to keep the section closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team’s public silence hasn’t stopped a group of superfans from launching a campaign to persuade A’s ownership to change its mind and throw Mount Davis open for one last game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fans Bryan Johansen, Steven Leighton and Gabriel Cullen issued an open letter with a proposal for A’s ownership: If the team agreed to open Mount Davis for the Sept. 26 game, they’d help prepare the stands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We composed an email and sent it to them and said, ‘OK, we’re going to offer you entirely free labor to clean it up before the game, after the game, and all you got to do is open it,” Johansen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/LastDiveBar/status/1829179653719986320\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johansen, co-founder of a Coliseum-themed apparel brand called Last Dive Bar and someone who is relentlessly critical of A’s owner John Fisher and president Dave Kaval, said at least 50 people have volunteered for the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s stuff that’s been just put up there like storage or trash,” Johansen said. “That stuff just needs to be moved out of the way, do a simple power washing and that’s it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11999833 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/S2A6703-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johansen concedes opening Mount Davis won’t be quite that simple. The team would need to provide ushers and security, for instance. But as an organizer of last year’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11952845/oakland-as-fans-swing-to-save-oakland-baseball\">reverse boycott \u003c/a>and other A’s fan events, he said he doesn’t feel that would be a heavy lift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One thing that’s been clear the entire time we started the whole movement and the protests and the boycotts, there’s not been one single recorded police incident ever, not a single incident of violence or vandalism,” he said. “So you don’t need many people to police the fans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johansen also acknowledges that Mount Davis wouldn’t offer the ideal fan experience. It’s likely that concession stands and even restrooms would be closed, meaning ticket holders would have to take a hike to other parts of the ballpark for their hot dogs and beer and bio-relief. 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"content": "\u003cp>The Oakland Ballers are welcoming their fans as business partners, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11993723/oakland-ballers-give-fans-a-chance-to-own-a-piece-of-the-team\">offering not only a financial stake\u003c/a> in the independent minor league baseball club but also a say in how the team is run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Pioneer League team \u003ca href=\"https://invest.oaklandballers.com/\">began selling fan shares\u003c/a> on Wednesday morning through online crowdfunding platform DealMaker, putting up $1.235 million in fan stock with a minimum investment of $170.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fan shareholders will have a voice in major decisions about team operations in two ways, the Ballers say: through a new fan-elected member of the team’s board of directors and by direct shareholder votes on decisions like hiring or firing the team’s head of baseball operations and whether the team will relocate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re doing something novel here, which is allowing fans representation on the board of directors, who is responsible for all governance decisions and will be in the room with a seat at the table and a voice,” Ballers CEO Paul Freedman said in an interview ahead of the stock sale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Giving the fans a direct say, even a limited one, is a direct response to the treatment Oakland A’s faithful have received at the hands of that team’s management over the last two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, the team sought to leave Oakland before setting its sights on a new stadium on the city’s waterfront. Then, when the team failed to win all it wanted in tax incentives and other concessions from the city and Alameda County, it engineered a move to Las Vegas. After \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12000643/giants-and-as-fans-gather-for-one-last-battle-of-the-bay\">finishing this season at the Oakland Coliseum\u003c/a>, the team plans to play the next three years in Sacramento in the meantime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001182\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001182\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/L1006014_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/L1006014_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/L1006014_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/L1006014_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/L1006014_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/L1006014_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/L1006014_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fans pose for photos with Oakland Ballers players before their game in Raimondi Park in Oakland, California, on June 4, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">All the while, fans’ anger mounted — including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11952845/oakland-as-fans-swing-to-save-oakland-baseball\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an ongoing campaign\u003c/a> to shame A’s owner, John Fisher, into selling the team to interests that would keep it in the East Bay.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freedman said he believes the A’s departure is part of a trend in which the “social contract” between pro sports teams and their fans has broken down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, for decades, major U.S. baseball, basketball, football and hockey leagues have been replete with examples of teams relocating without a thought for their fans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11989078 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240604-OAKLAND-BALLERS-AC-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Challenged on that point, Freedman noted Walter Haas Jr., the Levi’s heir and CEO who bought the A’s from Charlie Finley in 1980 and kept them in Oakland. Haas sold the team in 1995.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We believe that a lot of the value of a team comes from the fans themselves, the energy that they produce,” Freedman said. “That’s what’s fun about the game is enjoying it with your community. Right? And so whether it’s ever been there or not, we believe this is a pathway to create a social contract between fans and their communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As is customary in crowdfunding, the Ballers are also offering a series of perks to those who invest more than the minimum. Those include early access to team merchandise at the $200 investment level, discounted tickets for those who buy $500 in shares, and invitations to attend spring training for investors who pony up $25,000 or more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SEC filing that accompanied the share offering discloses how the team has been financed to date and lays out several financial challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In joining the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pioneerleague.com/landing/index\">Pioneer League\u003c/a> last year, Freedman and Ballers co-founder Bryan Carmel needed to start two new teams so the league could maintain an even number of teams and a balanced schedule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The league’s fee for each of the new franchises — the Ballers and its sister team, the Yolo High Wheelers — was $1.75 million, according to the SEC document. The Ballers’ owners financed the Yolo franchise fee with a loan from the league at 10% interest. An $875,000 payment on that loan is due in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The filing also discloses that most of the teams’ expenses so far, including the estimated $1.6 million the Ballers paid to refurbish West Oakland’s Raimondi Park and erect a temporary stadium there, have been met with a $5 million loan from Freedman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Ballers have generated lots of social media buzz in their first year, a level of enthusiasm not strongly reflected in attendance to date. Though a just-concluded six-game homestand marked the team’s strongest attendance since \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989078/oakland-ballers-sold-out-opener-a-ray-of-light-for-city-that-still-loves-baseball\">opening night in June\u003c/a>, the team has drawn an average of 1,820 to its 4,100-seat ballpark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team currently ranks eighth among 10 Pioneer League teams that are reporting attendance this year, mostly small-town franchises in Montana, Idaho, Colorado and Utah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Baseball fans from both sides of the Bay took to the Oakland Coliseum on Sunday, hot dogs and beer in hand, to mark the end of an era for Bay Area baseball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The game was the final meeting of the San Francisco Giants and the Oakland A’s, a matchup known for decades as the “Battle of the Bay” or the “Bay Bridge Series,” before the A’s head to their temporary new home in West Sacramento next season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12000672\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12000672 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-38_qed.jpg\" alt=\"A fan waving a yellow towl in Oakland\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-38_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-38_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-38_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-38_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-38_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-38_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Renato Almanzor cheers for the A’s during the final Battle of the Bay game between the A’s and the Giants at the Oakland Coliseum on Aug. 18, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The mood was festive and friendly, with dancing, tailgating and a tinge of wistfulness from A’s fans. Some tailgating parties had mixed-family allegiances to both teams. Samantha Quiñones, Angelina Castro and Myra Martinez drove up from San José with several family members, both A’s and Giant’s fans, to grill and watch the game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quiñones described the Battle of the Bay as an authentic Bay Area experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just being able to take Bart up here and hop off and get to the Coliseum,” Quiñones said. “We really do have strong roots here in Oakland. And that’s definitely gonna be something I’m really gonna miss.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12000665\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12000665 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-51_qed.jpg\" alt=\"A young kid stands with back to camera with an green Oakland jacket. The green of the baseball field can be seen in the background. \" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-51_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-51_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-51_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-51_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-51_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-51_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">JJ Ramos, 4, watches the final Battle of the Bay game between the A’s and the Giants at the Oakland Coliseum on Aug. 18, 2024.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A’s ownership is continuing to work on securing a new home in Las Vegas for the team, but getting a stadium built there is likely to take a few more years. A’s owner John Fisher announced in April that the team will relocate to Sacramento next season and play at the home of the minor league \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11981876/oakland-as-relocate-to-sacramento-river-cats-home-stadium-for-3-seasons\">Sacramento River Cats\u003c/a> for at least three years in the meantime.[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interleague games between the A’s and Giants didn’t start until 1997, but the competition dates back to the infamous 1989 World Series.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12000649\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12000649 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-1_qed.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing an A's jersey and a necklace with a large A's pendant poses for the camera.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-1_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-1_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-1_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-1_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-1_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-1_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Louie Maldonado, from Tracy, wears an A’s chain necklace for the last Battle of the Bay game at the Oakland Coliseum on Aug. 18, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As World Series go, the one in 1989 was not a particularly grueling competition. The A’s swept the series 4-0, winning it in the minimum number of games. But when the Loma Prieta Earthquake struck just before the start of game three, the cross-bay contest was cemented in local history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Television coverage at Candlestick Park \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/P5fJdM69pbQ?si=V8GJnpHVWj10BqVc&t=129\">was already underway,\u003c/a> with ABC Sports replaying part of game two when the earthquake interrupted the feed. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/121413/inside-candlestick-park-on-the-night-the-earth-shook\">KQED’s Scott Shafer\u003c/a> recalls being there, feeling the shaking and seeing then-mayor of San Francisco, Art Agnos, flown out of the arena by helicopter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12000667\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12000667 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-33_qed.jpg\" alt=\"A woman in a baseball hat smiles for the camera with a green fanny pack and jeans. \" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-33_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-33_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-33_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-33_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-33_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-33_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dianna Jess, 84, poses for a photo at the Oakland Coliseum during the final Battle of the Bay game on Aug. 18, 2024. Jess was at the 1989 game between the A’s and the Giants during the earthquake. She has been attending games since 1972. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dianna Jess, 84, said she has been coming to games at the Coliseum since 1972 and has been an A’s season ticket holder for 40 years. She also remembers being at Candlestick Park when the Loma Prieta earthquake struck, “All of a sudden, it just sounded like a roar in the ballpark,” Jess recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the A’s headed to West Sacramento next season, Jess said she probably won’t go to that many games, “It’s a little bit far to travel because I don’t like to drive that much.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12000655\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12000655 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-2_qed.jpg\" alt=\"A person takes a photo of two people posing at a baseball game.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-2_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-2_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-2_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-2_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-2_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-2_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland A’s fans pose for photo outside of the Oakland Coliseum for the last Battle of the Bay game on Aug. 18, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Self-described A’s “superfan” Andy Ngim came to the game with 40 family members. He says he doesn’t plan on going to see the team play in West Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being a lifelong A’s fan and growing up in Oakland, it just doesn’t feel right,” Ngim said of the possibility of continuing to attend games in Sacramento or Las Vegas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12000673\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12000673 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-53_qed.jpg\" alt=\"A green baseball field with blue sky\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-53_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-53_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-53_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-53_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-53_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-53_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland Coliseum stadium hosts the final Battle of the Bay game between the A’s and the Giants at the Oakland Coliseum on Aug. 18, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sunday’s game went scoreless for five innings until the A’s Miguel Andujar hit an RBI single in the 6th inning. Next inning, the Giants’ Heliot Ramos responded with a well-hit 448-foot solo home run to tie the game. The game went into extra innings tied at one run a piece.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 10th, the Giants took control of the game with a 2-run homer by Jerar Encarnacion and another solo home run by Michael Conforto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The A’s Max Schuemann kept the team’s hopes alive with an RBI single in the bottom of the tenth to bring the score to 4 to 2, but Giants relief pitcher Ryan Walker was able to hold the A’s to just that one run to finish the game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12000671\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12000671 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-47_qed.jpg\" alt=\"Fans wearing green in the stands at the Oakland Coliseum.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-47_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-47_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-47_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-47_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-47_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-47_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fans wave to Stomper during the final Battle of the Bay game between the A’s and the Giants at the Oakland Coliseum on Aug. 18, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Battle of the Bay has spanned 148 regular season games. The A’s have the winning record in that series, with 76 wins and 72 losses to the Giants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that time, fans on both sides have seen tremendous victories and outrageous losses. In a June 2005 game, the A’s dominated with a final score of 16-0. In another 2006 game, Barry Bonds hit his 714th home run, tying him with Babe Ruth for second place in the sport’s history of career home runs on Oakland’s home turf.[aside tag=\"baseball\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, the cross-bay competition was memorialized through a trophy named “The Bridge.” The 30-pound steel prize was made from part of the East Span of the old Bay Bridge, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcsportsbayarea.com/mlb/giants-as-raise-the-stakes-of-the-bay-bridge-series-with-the-bridge-trophy/1294754/\">NBC Sports Bay Area\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Sunday’s game, both teams had held the trophy for three years each. It’s unclear if the tradition will continue after the A’s leave Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two teams will continue to face off, eventually as the San Francisco Giants versus the Las Vegas A’s, but it won’t be in Oakland, and it won’t be the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12000670\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12000670 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-14_qed.jpg\" alt=\"Several fans at the Oakland Coliseum.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-14_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-14_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-14_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-14_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-14_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-14_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An A’s fan takes a video during the last Battle of the Bay game between the A’s and the Giants at the Oakland Coliseum on Aug. 18, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Baseball fans from both sides of the Bay took to the Oakland Coliseum on Sunday, hot dogs and beer in hand, to mark the end of an era for Bay Area baseball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The game was the final meeting of the San Francisco Giants and the Oakland A’s, a matchup known for decades as the “Battle of the Bay” or the “Bay Bridge Series,” before the A’s head to their temporary new home in West Sacramento next season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12000672\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12000672 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-38_qed.jpg\" alt=\"A fan waving a yellow towl in Oakland\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-38_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-38_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-38_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-38_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-38_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-38_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Renato Almanzor cheers for the A’s during the final Battle of the Bay game between the A’s and the Giants at the Oakland Coliseum on Aug. 18, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The mood was festive and friendly, with dancing, tailgating and a tinge of wistfulness from A’s fans. Some tailgating parties had mixed-family allegiances to both teams. Samantha Quiñones, Angelina Castro and Myra Martinez drove up from San José with several family members, both A’s and Giant’s fans, to grill and watch the game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quiñones described the Battle of the Bay as an authentic Bay Area experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just being able to take Bart up here and hop off and get to the Coliseum,” Quiñones said. “We really do have strong roots here in Oakland. And that’s definitely gonna be something I’m really gonna miss.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12000665\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12000665 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-51_qed.jpg\" alt=\"A young kid stands with back to camera with an green Oakland jacket. The green of the baseball field can be seen in the background. \" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-51_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-51_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-51_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-51_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-51_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-51_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">JJ Ramos, 4, watches the final Battle of the Bay game between the A’s and the Giants at the Oakland Coliseum on Aug. 18, 2024.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A’s ownership is continuing to work on securing a new home in Las Vegas for the team, but getting a stadium built there is likely to take a few more years. A’s owner John Fisher announced in April that the team will relocate to Sacramento next season and play at the home of the minor league \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11981876/oakland-as-relocate-to-sacramento-river-cats-home-stadium-for-3-seasons\">Sacramento River Cats\u003c/a> for at least three years in the meantime.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interleague games between the A’s and Giants didn’t start until 1997, but the competition dates back to the infamous 1989 World Series.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12000649\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12000649 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-1_qed.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing an A's jersey and a necklace with a large A's pendant poses for the camera.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-1_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-1_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-1_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-1_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-1_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-1_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Louie Maldonado, from Tracy, wears an A’s chain necklace for the last Battle of the Bay game at the Oakland Coliseum on Aug. 18, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As World Series go, the one in 1989 was not a particularly grueling competition. The A’s swept the series 4-0, winning it in the minimum number of games. But when the Loma Prieta Earthquake struck just before the start of game three, the cross-bay contest was cemented in local history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Television coverage at Candlestick Park \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/P5fJdM69pbQ?si=V8GJnpHVWj10BqVc&t=129\">was already underway,\u003c/a> with ABC Sports replaying part of game two when the earthquake interrupted the feed. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/121413/inside-candlestick-park-on-the-night-the-earth-shook\">KQED’s Scott Shafer\u003c/a> recalls being there, feeling the shaking and seeing then-mayor of San Francisco, Art Agnos, flown out of the arena by helicopter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12000667\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12000667 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-33_qed.jpg\" alt=\"A woman in a baseball hat smiles for the camera with a green fanny pack and jeans. \" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-33_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-33_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-33_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-33_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-33_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-33_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dianna Jess, 84, poses for a photo at the Oakland Coliseum during the final Battle of the Bay game on Aug. 18, 2024. Jess was at the 1989 game between the A’s and the Giants during the earthquake. She has been attending games since 1972. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dianna Jess, 84, said she has been coming to games at the Coliseum since 1972 and has been an A’s season ticket holder for 40 years. She also remembers being at Candlestick Park when the Loma Prieta earthquake struck, “All of a sudden, it just sounded like a roar in the ballpark,” Jess recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the A’s headed to West Sacramento next season, Jess said she probably won’t go to that many games, “It’s a little bit far to travel because I don’t like to drive that much.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12000655\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12000655 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-2_qed.jpg\" alt=\"A person takes a photo of two people posing at a baseball game.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-2_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-2_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-2_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-2_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-2_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-2_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland A’s fans pose for photo outside of the Oakland Coliseum for the last Battle of the Bay game on Aug. 18, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Self-described A’s “superfan” Andy Ngim came to the game with 40 family members. He says he doesn’t plan on going to see the team play in West Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being a lifelong A’s fan and growing up in Oakland, it just doesn’t feel right,” Ngim said of the possibility of continuing to attend games in Sacramento or Las Vegas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12000673\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12000673 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-53_qed.jpg\" alt=\"A green baseball field with blue sky\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-53_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-53_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-53_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-53_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-53_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-53_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland Coliseum stadium hosts the final Battle of the Bay game between the A’s and the Giants at the Oakland Coliseum on Aug. 18, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sunday’s game went scoreless for five innings until the A’s Miguel Andujar hit an RBI single in the 6th inning. Next inning, the Giants’ Heliot Ramos responded with a well-hit 448-foot solo home run to tie the game. The game went into extra innings tied at one run a piece.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 10th, the Giants took control of the game with a 2-run homer by Jerar Encarnacion and another solo home run by Michael Conforto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The A’s Max Schuemann kept the team’s hopes alive with an RBI single in the bottom of the tenth to bring the score to 4 to 2, but Giants relief pitcher Ryan Walker was able to hold the A’s to just that one run to finish the game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12000671\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12000671 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-47_qed.jpg\" alt=\"Fans wearing green in the stands at the Oakland Coliseum.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-47_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-47_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-47_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-47_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-47_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-47_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fans wave to Stomper during the final Battle of the Bay game between the A’s and the Giants at the Oakland Coliseum on Aug. 18, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Battle of the Bay has spanned 148 regular season games. The A’s have the winning record in that series, with 76 wins and 72 losses to the Giants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that time, fans on both sides have seen tremendous victories and outrageous losses. In a June 2005 game, the A’s dominated with a final score of 16-0. In another 2006 game, Barry Bonds hit his 714th home run, tying him with Babe Ruth for second place in the sport’s history of career home runs on Oakland’s home turf.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, the cross-bay competition was memorialized through a trophy named “The Bridge.” The 30-pound steel prize was made from part of the East Span of the old Bay Bridge, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcsportsbayarea.com/mlb/giants-as-raise-the-stakes-of-the-bay-bridge-series-with-the-bridge-trophy/1294754/\">NBC Sports Bay Area\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Sunday’s game, both teams had held the trophy for three years each. It’s unclear if the tradition will continue after the A’s leave Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two teams will continue to face off, eventually as the San Francisco Giants versus the Las Vegas A’s, but it won’t be in Oakland, and it won’t be the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12000670\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12000670 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-14_qed.jpg\" alt=\"Several fans at the Oakland Coliseum.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-14_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-14_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-14_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-14_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-14_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-14_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An A’s fan takes a video during the last Battle of the Bay game between the A’s and the Giants at the Oakland Coliseum on Aug. 18, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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According to USA Water Polo, the nonprofit federation that promotes the sport and selects the U.S. Olympic team, there are more than 50,000 affiliated members and 500 clubs nationwide. That number is dwarfed by other American sports, like baseball, which has more than 15 million amateur players across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the small footprint, water polo dominates in California. This year, all but 3 of the 26 players on the U.S. men’s and women’s Olympic teams are from the state. \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncsasports.org/mens-water-polo/colleges\">Three-quarters\u003c/a> of all high school players in the country live in California, according to Next College Student Athlete, a college athlete recruiting company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s definitely a California team. The state will have its stamp on the team culture for sure,” said Woodhead, whose position on the U.S. men’s team is attacker. “The Southern California guys definitely talk about traffic more than anyone else I’ve ever met.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11997462\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/IMG_4977-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11997462\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/IMG_4977-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Multiple people sit with their feet in the water at a pool.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/IMG_4977-scaled.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/IMG_4977-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/IMG_4977-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/IMG_4977-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/IMG_4977-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/IMG_4977-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Athletes on the UC Berkeley Men’s water polo team rest during practice on July 18, 2024. \u003ccite>(Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jenna Flynn, a Stanford sophomore who grew up in San José, attributes her success in making the Olympic team to the small scene for the sport in her hometown. She said there, she found a supportive community where she could hone her skills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that that’s something that we have over Southern California water polo,” said Flynn, a 20-year-old attacker on Team USA. “It’s an amazing opportunity to feel like I am a representative of NorCal water polo.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. women’s team is considered a top contender for a gold medal this year. They have won the gold medal in the past three Olympics and appear to be in good form after winning a gold medal at the World Aquatics Championships in Qatar this year. Flynn scored 11 goals in the competition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last time the U.S. men’s team won medals was in the 2008 Olympics, earning silver. This summer, the team to beat is Serbia, which has won the gold medal in the past two Olympics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the small following for water polo, the sport got a pop culture moment earlier this month. Rapper Flavor Flav from the group Public Enemy dropped by the women’s team’s practice and dove into the pool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was just like, ‘I’m gonna get in with you guys and see how hard this is!’” Flynn recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flav announced that he had signed a five-year sponsorship deal with the U.S. men’s and women’s senior national team and agreed to be the teams’ official hype man. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the small footprint, water polo dominates in California. This year, all but 3 of the 26 players on the U.S. men’s and women’s Olympic teams are from the state. \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncsasports.org/mens-water-polo/colleges\">Three-quarters\u003c/a> of all high school players in the country live in California, according to Next College Student Athlete, a college athlete recruiting company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s definitely a California team. 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Rapper Flavor Flav from the group Public Enemy dropped by the women’s team’s practice and dove into the pool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was just like, ‘I’m gonna get in with you guys and see how hard this is!’” Flynn recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flav announced that he had signed a five-year sponsorship deal with the U.S. men’s and women’s senior national team and agreed to be the teams’ official hype man. He \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CWpLnnTUMY&t=126s\">told CBS\u003c/a> he was moved to help the team after seeing an \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C6j4IeUsLvY/?utm--source=ig--web--copy--link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D&img_index=1\">Instagram post\u003c/a> by women’s team captain Maggie Steffens, a native of Danville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some may not know this, but most Olympians need a 2nd (or 3rd) job to support chasing the dream (myself included!) and most teams rely on sponsors for travel, accommodations, nutritional support, rent/lodging, and simply affording to live in this day and age,” Stephens posted on social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11997465\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/IMG_4980-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11997465\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/IMG_4980-scaled.jpg\" alt='Two plaques on a wall that say \"Olympians\" with a list of names.' width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/IMG_4980-scaled.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/IMG_4980-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/IMG_4980-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/IMG_4980-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/IMG_4980-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/IMG_4980-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A plaque at Spieker Pool on the UC Berkeley Campus shows the names of past students who competed in the Olympics, with room for additional names. \u003ccite>(Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Without a professional water polo league in the U.S., the pinnacle for many American players remains the Olympics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s two weeks, and that might be the only time anybody ever sees the sport of water polo,” said Kirk Everist, coach of the men’s water polo at UC Berkeley for the past 22 seasons and a former two-time Olympian himself. “But they’ve been playing in tournaments and playing a lot for four years to get there. 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