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I mean, we were even down by eight, and they were still cheering ‘Let’s go Oakland,’ so you can tell they love Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, on the other side of town, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11988916/oakland-as-pitcher-michael-kelly-suspended-in-biggest-betting-scandal-in-decades\">the Oakland Athletics\u003c/a> hosted a crowd not much larger on Tuesday night, playing in front of 5,624 people at a Coliseum with a capacity of almost 50,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Ballers, an independent Pioneer League baseball team, were formed in part as an attempt to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11968536/new-oakland-ballers-baseball-team-aims-to-keep-the-sport-in-the-city\">fill the void left by the A’s\u003c/a>, who are set to leave for Sacramento after this season before relocating to a new stadium in Las Vegas as early as 2028.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Ballers have been like a ray of light, a real energizer for the city,” fan Jerome Sicat said after Tuesday’s game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11989044\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11989044\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240604-OAKLAND-BALLERS-AC-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240604-OAKLAND-BALLERS-AC-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240604-OAKLAND-BALLERS-AC-07-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240604-OAKLAND-BALLERS-AC-07-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240604-OAKLAND-BALLERS-AC-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240604-OAKLAND-BALLERS-AC-07-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240604-OAKLAND-BALLERS-AC-07-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Ballers fans take photos in front of the team logo outside of Raimondi Park in Oakland on June 4, 2024. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He called the loss of the A’s “heartbreaking” and said, “It’s amazing to have the B’s to come and check out and root for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11988883,news_11988762,news_11988916 label='related coverage']In preparation for their inaugural season, the Ballers invested $1.6 million to bring Raimondi Park up to league standards. Before that, the park wasn’t fit for Little League games, Oakland native and Ballers fan Anthony McNeal said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the Ballers came and waved their magic wand over this area, it just revitalized hope, excitement,” McNeal said. “And it couldn’t be at a better time, Oakland getting such a bad rap, and a lot of crime and things like that, and this is just a bright spot and one of many we hope to build in Oakland and in this neighborhood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Oakland is losing its major league team and the Ballers lost their home opener, it’s clear Oakland hasn’t lost its love for baseball.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Diego Padres infielder \u003ca style=\"font-weight: var(--font-weight-reg)\" href=\"https://apnews.com/hub/tucupita-marcano\">Tucupita Marcano\u003c/a> was banned from baseball for life for betting on the sport and four others, including Oakland Athletics pitcher, Michael Kelly, were suspended for one year by \u003ca style=\"font-weight: var(--font-weight-reg)\" href=\"https://apnews.com/hub/mlb\">Major League Baseball\u003c/a> on Tuesday in the game’s biggest gambling scandal in decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The A’s were disappointed to learn of the matter involving Michael Kelly. While we cannot comment on the details, this violation occurred prior to Michael joining the A’s organization and we fully support MLB’s sports betting policy and the need to adhere to all provisions of Rule 21,” the Oakland Athletics said in a statement to KQED. “We will continue to educate all members of our organization regarding their obligations under the policy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MLB said Marcano placed 387 baseball bets totaling more than $150,000 in October 2022 and from last July through November with a legal sportsbook. He became the first active player in a century to be banned for life because of gambling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland A’s pitcher Michael Kelly was suspended for one year for betting on baseball while in the minor leagues and three minor leaguers also were banned for one year for betting on big league games: pitchers Jay Groome of San Diego and Andrew Saalfrank of Arizona, and infielder José Rodríguez of Philadelphia. Each of those four players wagered under $1,000. Saalfrank and Rodríguez played previously in the majors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The strict enforcement of Major League Baseball’s rules and policies governing gambling conduct is a critical component of upholding our most important priority: protecting the integrity of our games for the fans,” baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said in a statement. “The longstanding prohibition against betting on Major League Baseball games by those in the sport has been a bedrock principle for over a century. We have been clear that the privilege of playing in baseball comes with a responsibility to refrain from engaging in certain types of behavior that are legal for other people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marcano is the first active major leaguer banned for life under the sport’s gambling provision since New York Giants outfielder Jimmy O’Connell in 1924. Pete Rose, baseball’s career hits leader, agreed to a lifetime ban in 1989 after an investigation concluded he bet on\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cincinnati Reds games while managing the team.[aside postID=news_11988883 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Kelsie-Whitmore-KQED-1020x680.jpg']Major League Rule 21, posted in every clubhouse, states betting on any baseball game in which a player, umpire, league official or team employee has no duty to perform results in a one-year suspension. Betting on a game in which the person has a duty to perform results in a lifetime ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marcano became the second North American athlete banned for gambling in recent months. \u003ca style=\"font-weight: var(--font-weight-reg)\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/nba-jontay-porter-banned-265ad5cb703d9483347037762ee90a8f\">The NBA gave Toronto’s Jontay Porter a lifetime ban in April\u003c/a> after concluding he disclosed confidential information to bettors and wagered on games, including on the Raptors losing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MLB said it was tipped off in March about the betting activity by a legal sports betting operator. None of the players punished played in any games on which they wagered, and all players denied to MLB they had inside information relevant to their bets or the games they gambled on — testimonies that MLB says align with the data received from the sportsbook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its announcement, MLB detailed the bets alleged for each player,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marcano’s 387 baseball bets included international games and 231 MLB-related wagers for $87,319 between Oct. 16, 2022, and last Nov. 1. Twenty-five of those bets included wagers on Pirates games while he was on the team’s major league roster. Now 24, Marcano has not played since tearing his right ACL last July 24 and was receiving medical treatment at PNC Park last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marcano bet almost exclusively on the outcomes of games and lost all of his parlay bets involving the Pirates, winning just 4.3% of his MLB-related bets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marcano made his major league debut on April 1, 2021, and has a .217 average with five homers, 34 RBIs and seven stolen bases in\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>149 games. He has played in both the infield and outfield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While the thorough investigation revealed no evidence of any games being compromised, influenced or manipulated in any way in this case, protecting the integrity of our game is paramount,” the Pirates said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other four players did not bet on games involving their assigned teams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly placed 10 bets on nine major league games from Oct. 5–17, 2021, while a minor league player was assigned to Houston’s Triple-A Sugar Land farm team. The bets included wagers on outcomes, over/under on runs and an individual pitcher’s strikeout total. Three of the nine games involved the major league Astros. His wagers totaled $99.22 and resulted in $28.30 of winnings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly, 31, was 3–2 with a 2.59 ERA in 28 games this season, last pitching on Saturday at Atlanta. The former first-round draft pick appeared in 46 games over the past three seasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Groome, a 25-year-old who had been on a minor league injured list since mid-April, placed 32 MLB-related bets from July 22, 2020, through July 24, 2021, including 24 on the Boston Red Sox major league team while he was assigned to Boston’s High-A team in Greenville, South Carolina. The sport detailed he wagered $453.74 on 30 MLB games and had a net loss of $433.54, receiving payouts on only two wagers. His betting included parlays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodríguez, 23, has been at Double-A Reading this season. He placed 31 bets on baseball on Sept. 30, 2021, and from June 5 through July 30 in, 2022, including 28 on MLB and three on college baseball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The total included seven involving the Chicago White Sox at the time he was assigned to their Double-A team in Birmingham, Alabama. Two of the White Sox bets involved outcomes and the others were on runs scored. 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"content": "\u003cp>The last few weeks have seen astonishing changes at West Oakland’s Raimondi Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Ballers have turned the park’s historic baseball field, which city officials described just two months ago as “unplayable” due to years of neglect, into an instant stadium that will welcome a sellout crowd of 4,000 for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pioneerleague.com/landing/index\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pioneer League\u003c/a> team’s first home game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the facilities the team says will be ready for those fans are three parking lots adjacent to the field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s about a thousand parking spaces in total,” says Paul Freedman, co-founder of the Oakland Ballers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988460\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-54-BL_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988460\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-54-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A smiling man wearing a black hoodie, holding a green helmet with a baseball diamond behind him, along with a green warehouse in the distance painted with a white 'B's'\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-54-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-54-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-54-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-54-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-54-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Ballers co-founder Paul Freedman talks with members of the Oakland Department of Transportation after a bicycle ride from City Hall to Raimondi Field, the new home of the Oakland Ballers baseball team, in West Oakland on May 28. The purpose of the ride was to observe and discuss improvements made to infrastructure in the area ahead of the Ballers Opening Day. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But while the team is providing parking at prices ranging from $8 to $20, Freedman says he hopes many fans leave their cars at home and find other ways to the ballpark. This season, the team says its goal is to have 25% of fans get to the ballpark without driving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freedman says the team’s transit goals are both climate-conscious and practical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been told by people who do parking and transportation management for the city that if we didn’t do anything, as many as 80 to 90% of people would drive,” Freedman says.[aside postID=\"news_11986294,arts_13956931,news_11968536\" label=\"Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preventing traffic jams has been an important part of planning for the ballpark. Freedman says he’s met with neighborhood groups about that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We heard tremendous excitement about the idea of activating this park with baseball, and then, concerns about parking, transportation and traffic,” Freedman says. “And the best way to solve those problems is to encourage people to use other methods.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On game days, the Ballers are running a \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandballers.com/information/transportation-and-parking\">free shuttle\u003c/a> to Raimondi Park from West Oakland BART. They’re providing a free bike and scooter valet for those who want to roll to the stadium and encouraging people to use AC Transit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For its part, the city of Oakland has repaved pothole-ridden streets, repaired sidewalks, removed derelict train tracks, and added high-visibility crosswalks in the immediate vicinity of the ballpark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988459\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-47-BL_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988459\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-47-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A group of smiling people riding bicycles along a tree-lined street approaches the camera\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-47-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-47-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-47-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-47-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-47-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the Oakland Department of Transportation lead a bicycle ride from City Hall to Raimondi Field, the new home of the Oakland Ballers baseball team, in Oakland on May 28. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oakland resident Tripper Ortman told KQED he plans to organize a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/ballersbiketotheballpark/\">Bike to the Ballpark\u003c/a>” group bicycle ride from Rockridge BART on weekend game days. He’s had success with this sort of thing before, as an organizer of “\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/rootsmarchtothematch/\">March to the Match\u003c/a>”, a 3.8-mile walk from Rockridge to Laney College to see Oakland Roots games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there’s a lot of bad press around biking in Oakland,” Ortman says. “I don’t know that I feel totally safe at night riding around, but in a big caravan during the day on the weekends, it feels like something safe you can do. And it’s fun.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Brian Culbertson, a member of the traffic safety advocacy group Traffic Violence Rapid Response who lives near Raimondi Park, people’s decisions on walking or biking to the game will be based on safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oakland has a traffic violence crisis where a lot of people who are walking or biking are being hit by cars,” Culbertson says, “It is a difficult decision to say, ‘I’m going to take my family and bike across Oakland and put myself in threat by the cars.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a \u003ca href=\"https://cao-94612.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/documents/CityofOakland_CrashAnalysis_Infographic_08.29.18.pdf\">citywide crash analysis \u003c/a>from the city, people who walk, bike or take public transit make up fewer than 30% of commute trips in the city but experience nearly 50% of severe and fatal injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Culbertson points to “multilane arterial streets,” of which there are more than one in the area around Raimondi, as the main problem areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988461\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-59-BL_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988461\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-59-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people stand at a railing with the green grass of a baseball diamond behind them\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-59-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-59-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-59-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-59-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-59-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the Oakland Department of Transportation look at Raimondi Field, the new home of the Oakland Ballers baseball team, in West Oakland on May 28, after a bicycle ride from City Hall to observe and discuss improvements made to infrastructure in the area ahead of the Ballers Opening Day. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If you have a lot of people on game day driving here, then you have a lot more people with cars interacting with people walking and biking,” Culbertson says. “So then a street like 18th, which is only really safe because hardly anyone uses it, will suddenly become a place for people to speed down and will become more dangerous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Culbertson says Oakland needs to install traffic-calming infrastructure, such as speed bumps, roundabouts, and concrete curbs, to slow drivers down not just in West Oakland but throughout the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not just up to the Ballers. It’s also up to the city of Oakland to plan that network of safe ways to get around Oakland to get here,” Culbertson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Traffic safety advocates hope improvements made to nearby \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/projects/8th-st-project\">8th Street\u003c/a>, where a soon-to-be-completed project has installed a number of traffic calming elements on a 1.1-mile stretch between Market and Pine streets, can become a template for future street redesigns in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few blocks away from Raimondi is Kilovolt Coffee. Andrea Mallea is the manager, and she takes the bus to work. Her advice for Ballers fans who want to take AC Transit to a game?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988457\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-28-BL_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988457\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-28-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people ride bicycles around a roundabout in a residential neighborhood\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-28-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-28-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-28-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-28-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-28-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the Oakland Department of Transportation lead a bicycle ride from City Hall to Raimondi Field, the new home of the Oakland Ballers baseball team, in Oakland on May 28. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’d say plan your time wisely because sometimes things get kind of dicey as far as buses even arriving on schedule,” Mallea says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four AC Transit routes, running every 15 to 30 minutes, depending on the day, will get you within walking distance of the ballpark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really think that there just needs to be an increase in routes and service if people are going to find that option to even be viable or appealing,” Mallea says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, it remains to be seen just how Ballers fans decide to get to the ballpark and how the neighborhood accommodates the new crowds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Ballers plan to use parking data to track how many people drive to the opening game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ballers’ co-founder Freedman says he’d love it if the new team could get fans excited about coming out to the ballpark during this first season while minimizing traffic impacts to the Raimondi neighborhood. If the Ballers can do that, he says, it would be a home run for the team and the community.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The last few weeks have seen astonishing changes at West Oakland’s Raimondi Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Ballers have turned the park’s historic baseball field, which city officials described just two months ago as “unplayable” due to years of neglect, into an instant stadium that will welcome a sellout crowd of 4,000 for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pioneerleague.com/landing/index\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pioneer League\u003c/a> team’s first home game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the facilities the team says will be ready for those fans are three parking lots adjacent to the field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s about a thousand parking spaces in total,” says Paul Freedman, co-founder of the Oakland Ballers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988460\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-54-BL_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988460\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-54-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A smiling man wearing a black hoodie, holding a green helmet with a baseball diamond behind him, along with a green warehouse in the distance painted with a white 'B's'\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-54-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-54-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-54-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-54-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-54-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Ballers co-founder Paul Freedman talks with members of the Oakland Department of Transportation after a bicycle ride from City Hall to Raimondi Field, the new home of the Oakland Ballers baseball team, in West Oakland on May 28. The purpose of the ride was to observe and discuss improvements made to infrastructure in the area ahead of the Ballers Opening Day. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But while the team is providing parking at prices ranging from $8 to $20, Freedman says he hopes many fans leave their cars at home and find other ways to the ballpark. This season, the team says its goal is to have 25% of fans get to the ballpark without driving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preventing traffic jams has been an important part of planning for the ballpark. Freedman says he’s met with neighborhood groups about that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We heard tremendous excitement about the idea of activating this park with baseball, and then, concerns about parking, transportation and traffic,” Freedman says. “And the best way to solve those problems is to encourage people to use other methods.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On game days, the Ballers are running a \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandballers.com/information/transportation-and-parking\">free shuttle\u003c/a> to Raimondi Park from West Oakland BART. They’re providing a free bike and scooter valet for those who want to roll to the stadium and encouraging people to use AC Transit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For its part, the city of Oakland has repaved pothole-ridden streets, repaired sidewalks, removed derelict train tracks, and added high-visibility crosswalks in the immediate vicinity of the ballpark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988459\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-47-BL_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988459\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-47-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A group of smiling people riding bicycles along a tree-lined street approaches the camera\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-47-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-47-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-47-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-47-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-47-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the Oakland Department of Transportation lead a bicycle ride from City Hall to Raimondi Field, the new home of the Oakland Ballers baseball team, in Oakland on May 28. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oakland resident Tripper Ortman told KQED he plans to organize a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/ballersbiketotheballpark/\">Bike to the Ballpark\u003c/a>” group bicycle ride from Rockridge BART on weekend game days. He’s had success with this sort of thing before, as an organizer of “\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/rootsmarchtothematch/\">March to the Match\u003c/a>”, a 3.8-mile walk from Rockridge to Laney College to see Oakland Roots games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there’s a lot of bad press around biking in Oakland,” Ortman says. “I don’t know that I feel totally safe at night riding around, but in a big caravan during the day on the weekends, it feels like something safe you can do. And it’s fun.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Brian Culbertson, a member of the traffic safety advocacy group Traffic Violence Rapid Response who lives near Raimondi Park, people’s decisions on walking or biking to the game will be based on safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oakland has a traffic violence crisis where a lot of people who are walking or biking are being hit by cars,” Culbertson says, “It is a difficult decision to say, ‘I’m going to take my family and bike across Oakland and put myself in threat by the cars.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a \u003ca href=\"https://cao-94612.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/documents/CityofOakland_CrashAnalysis_Infographic_08.29.18.pdf\">citywide crash analysis \u003c/a>from the city, people who walk, bike or take public transit make up fewer than 30% of commute trips in the city but experience nearly 50% of severe and fatal injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Culbertson points to “multilane arterial streets,” of which there are more than one in the area around Raimondi, as the main problem areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988461\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-59-BL_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988461\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-59-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people stand at a railing with the green grass of a baseball diamond behind them\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-59-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-59-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-59-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-59-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-59-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the Oakland Department of Transportation look at Raimondi Field, the new home of the Oakland Ballers baseball team, in West Oakland on May 28, after a bicycle ride from City Hall to observe and discuss improvements made to infrastructure in the area ahead of the Ballers Opening Day. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If you have a lot of people on game day driving here, then you have a lot more people with cars interacting with people walking and biking,” Culbertson says. “So then a street like 18th, which is only really safe because hardly anyone uses it, will suddenly become a place for people to speed down and will become more dangerous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Culbertson says Oakland needs to install traffic-calming infrastructure, such as speed bumps, roundabouts, and concrete curbs, to slow drivers down not just in West Oakland but throughout the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not just up to the Ballers. It’s also up to the city of Oakland to plan that network of safe ways to get around Oakland to get here,” Culbertson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Traffic safety advocates hope improvements made to nearby \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/projects/8th-st-project\">8th Street\u003c/a>, where a soon-to-be-completed project has installed a number of traffic calming elements on a 1.1-mile stretch between Market and Pine streets, can become a template for future street redesigns in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few blocks away from Raimondi is Kilovolt Coffee. Andrea Mallea is the manager, and she takes the bus to work. Her advice for Ballers fans who want to take AC Transit to a game?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988457\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-28-BL_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988457\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-28-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people ride bicycles around a roundabout in a residential neighborhood\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-28-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-28-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-28-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-28-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-28-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the Oakland Department of Transportation lead a bicycle ride from City Hall to Raimondi Field, the new home of the Oakland Ballers baseball team, in Oakland on May 28. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’d say plan your time wisely because sometimes things get kind of dicey as far as buses even arriving on schedule,” Mallea says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four AC Transit routes, running every 15 to 30 minutes, depending on the day, will get you within walking distance of the ballpark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really think that there just needs to be an increase in routes and service if people are going to find that option to even be viable or appealing,” Mallea says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, it remains to be seen just how Ballers fans decide to get to the ballpark and how the neighborhood accommodates the new crowds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Ballers plan to use parking data to track how many people drive to the opening game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The new Oakland Ballers independent baseball team hopes to incorporate a bit of Oakland sports history in its renovated ballpark as the club prepares for its opener next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An expansion team in the independent Pioneer League, the “B’s,” are inquiring about purchasing some or all of the approximately 5,000 unused bleacher seats that formerly were brought in for Raiders games at the Oakland Coliseum. The bleachers have been stored outside near a parking lot on the southeast side of the formally dual-purpose stadium since the Raiders departed for Las Vegas after the 2019 season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11981232,news_11949532\" label=\"Related Stories\"]Ballers co-founder and CEO Paul Freedman sent a letter Tuesday to Oakland City Councilmember and Vice Mayor Rebecca Kaplan, who is chair of the Oakland-Alameda Coliseum Authority JPA Commission. It is a joint powers agency established by the City of Oakland and the County of Alameda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an innovative and worthwhile idea that I am excited to pursue with the Ballers and with my colleagues at the coliseum authority,” Kaplan said in an email. “Being able to put the previously used seats into positive and productive new use to serve the community would be a win-win example of recycling and creative reuse. I’m glad the Ballers are proposing it and that they are dedicated to being rooted in Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1995, the Raiders built a new upper deck section of seats called Mount Davis after late owner Al Davis, a move to lure the team back from Los Angeles to Oakland. However, these seats took away picturesque views of the Oakland Hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The moveable bleachers added for game days were part of the transition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These seats are pretty significant for folks who follow Oakland sports. For me, these are the seats that started it all, like started all the downhill,” Freedman said in a phone interview. “These are the seats that were brought in because the Raiders made a ton of promises about what was going to happen. These are the seats that contributed to, I think, diminishing the Coliseum.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Ballers will play their first two weeks on the road before they host the Yolo High Wheelers in their home opener on June 4 at Oakland’s Raimondi Park. The team has invested $1.6 million into renovating the park to accommodate 4,000 fans and upgrade the surrounding area — including a playground — for youth baseball, softball and other activities such as movie nights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Coliseum seats would be incorporated for next year, the club’s second season. Temporary grandstands and infrastructure are going up for the inaugural season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As we prepare for Year 1, we are at the same time looking ahead to our long-term future. We hope to continue playing at Raimondi Park after our inaugural season and are planning for what the ballpark will look like in subsequent seasons as we establish our permanent home,” Freedman wrote in the letter, viewed by The Associated Press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To that end, we think there is a great opportunity to repurpose these seats for our future seasons at Raimondi Park. While we anticipate that some of the seats may have experienced deterioration over the years due to exposure to the elements and lack of use, we believe that many seats remain functional. We see the installation of these seats at Raimondi Park as an excellent opportunity to pay tribute to the legacy of Oakland’s major league teams while ensuring that a part of their history lives on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Ballers are prepared to pay $45 per seat, minus removal costs, after researching the value, Freedman said, and they checked with the new Oakland Roots soccer team, and it didn’t have a use for the seats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Additionally, this initiative presents the Commission with the opportunity to realize several significant benefits, including generating revenue from the sale of the seats, which could be reinvested in enhancing public safety in the area and eliminating the public eyesore that the seats have become,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Major League Baseball owners unanimously approved the A’s relocation to Las Vegas in November, and the team plans to move into a new stadium on the Las Vegas Strip in 2028. The A’s are scheduled to play the next three seasons in Sacramento from 2025-27.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The B’s announced their new team last November, with a similar font to the A’s and plans to carry on the city’s green-and-gold color scheme.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freedman can’t wait to see his team continue to honor Oakland’s proud history — with acquiring these seats being another part of that process. He knows they might generate mixed emotions in fans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can bring them back and make sure baseball is watched in those seats,” he said. “For those who follow the details of the Oakland sports saga, these seats have a specific significance, and thus, it’s really important for us to try to reclaim them as part of the belief baseball needs to continue in the town.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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But it left a lasting impact on a few attendees that day — a group of former Santa Clara University baseball players who were struck by the glowing treatment of Newsom’s resume.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s kind of the standing joke that Newsom played on the team,” said Vince Machi, who arrived at Santa Clara in 1985, the same year as Newsom, and played baseball for three years. “There’s always been kind of a joke between the guys who stay in touch.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty years later, as the Giants kick off their latest home season Friday, Newsom is now a national political figure — not just an \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2023/11/newsom-desantis-debate/\">outspoken champion of the Democratic Party\u003c/a> but a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2022/10/gavin-newsom-campaign-president/\">potential future presidential contender\u003c/a>. He regularly appears on cable news to discuss California policies and attack Republicans. Lately he has traveled the country as a leading surrogate for President Biden’s re-election campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through his rise over the intervening two decades, his baseball career has provided Newsom a triumphant narrative to push back on the perception that his upbringing was privileged and easy: The high school standout scouted by the major leagues, who overcame his dyslexia and academic shortcomings to earn a partial scholarship to Santa Clara University before an injury forced him to find a new purpose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has become so closely associated with Newsom that “Saturday Night Live” \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpNCwUzIPtU\">opened a show in March with a sketch\u003c/a> where the Democratic governor, portrayed by Michael Longfellow, defends President Biden’s mental fitness by recounting: “The other day he was taking a nap and I whipped a baseball at him and he caught it like De Niro in ‘Awakenings.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Vince Machi, former Santa Clara baseballer\"]‘It’s kind of the standing joke that Newsom played on the team.’[/pullquote]Newsom told the story himself again in January on \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIn1YknOSsc#t=1h00m38s\">the podcast Pod Save America\u003c/a>: Because of poor test scores, he was headed to community college until he got a call from the Santa Clara University baseball coaches. “It was literally the ticket to a four-year university. It changed my life, my trajectory,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But former coaches and teammates said that biography, repeated again and again through interviews and glossy magazine profiles and coverage of his 2021 \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/09/30/gov-newsom-writes-childrens-book-inspired-by-personal-experience-with-dyslexia/\">baseball-themed children’s book\u003c/a> on overcoming dyslexia, has inflated Newsom’s baseball credentials, giving the impression that he was a more accomplished player than he was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most notably, Newsom never played an official game for Santa Clara University; he was a junior varsity recruit who played only during the fall tryouts his freshman and sophomore years, then left the baseball program before the regular season began. He does not appear on the Broncos’ \u003ca href=\"https://santaclarabroncos.com/sports/2023/6/20/all-time-roster-bold-indicates-current-player-bb.aspx\">all-time roster\u003c/a> or in media guides published by the athletic department to preview the upcoming season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982110\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982110\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/040224_Snow_Survey_Newsom_FG_CM_02-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged white man wearing jeans and a blue buttoned shirt and sunglasses throws a snowball with snow and trees in the background.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1046\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/040224_Snow_Survey_Newsom_FG_CM_02-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/040224_Snow_Survey_Newsom_FG_CM_02-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/040224_Snow_Survey_Newsom_FG_CM_02-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/040224_Snow_Survey_Newsom_FG_CM_02-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/040224_Snow_Survey_Newsom_FG_CM_02-copy-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom tosses a snowball after the California Department of Water Resources conducted a media snow survey at Phillips Station in the Sierra Nevada on April 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Fred Greaves/California Department of Water Resources)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A deeper look at his recruitment also reveals that Newsom’s admission to Santa Clara University — like \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-pol-ca-gavin-newsom-san-francisco-money/\">so many of his formative opportunities\u003c/a> — was substantially boosted by friends and acquaintances of his father, William Newsom, a San Francisco judge and financial adviser to the Gettys, the wealthy oil family. One associate connected Newsom to the baseball program when he was in high school, while his father’s best friend, then a member of the university’s board of regents, wrote him a letter of recommendation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Cummins, the assistant coach at Santa Clara while Newsom was there, said the governor has “embellished his baseball career a little bit at times.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He never played in a varsity game. He may have played in some scrimmages,” said Cummins, who is now the \u003ca href=\"https://eastbaypioneers.com/staff-directory/mike-cummins/193\">head baseball coach\u003c/a> at California State University, East Bay. “He’s embellished it. It’s half-truths. He was recruited to Santa Clara, he was there in the fall, but he never played. He didn’t have a varsity career there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The misconception has been propelled as much by what Newsom doesn’t say as what he does — a polished sweep over his time at Santa Clara University that rarely gets more detailed than, “I played a little baseball. Just my first and second year,” as he told The Santa Clara, the student newspaper, in \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20090426073753/http:/media.www.thesantaclara.com/media/storage/paper946/news/2008/02/14/News/San-Franciscos.Gavin.Newsom.Sits.Down.With.The.Santa.Clara-3210314.shtml\">a 2008 interview\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not for the first time in his career, Newsom has allowed a more flattering version of events to develop in the public discourse while being slow to clear up the inaccuracies. During his first gubernatorial campaign in 2018, he acknowledged that \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article209176644.html\">he never attended rehab\u003c/a>, as was widely reported more than a decade earlier after he pledged to seek treatment for problems with alcohol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Broncos players from the era, who said they still regularly get asked about Newsom when people find out they played baseball at Santa Clara, wanted to correct the record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He didn’t earn it. He didn’t earn the right to say it,” said Kevin Schneider, who pitched for two seasons and now runs a pitching academy in San Francisco. “I worked my ass off. So did everyone else on that team. For him to just go all these years, to say he did something he didn’t that takes not just talent but also dedication and effort and sacrifice, it’s not right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spokespeople for Newsom rejected multiple requests to interview the governor about his baseball career. They said Newsom had never exaggerated his experience at Santa Clara University and that it was not his job to fix whatever mistaken assumptions the public may have developed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s been very honest and consistent about what happened to him in college and more personable than you would get from most politicians,” spokesperson Bob Salladay said. “He is not responsible for other people’s impressions or interpretations of him and his life. He is doing his job, and he cannot spend his entire day correcting people when they make errors about him. He’s moved on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom speaks about his baseball journey with “emotional, real truth that is visceral to him,” said Nathan Click, another spokesperson for the governor. “We all go through life and remember the emotions we feel about things, not, you know, facts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He chooses to talk about the emotional side of it, because he thinks that is the place that young people in particular, who are going through struggles, people with dyslexia, can find themselves in his story,” Click said. “That matters way more than, you know, whether he was a rostered player or what his stats were in the fall ball, JV, freshman year, Santa Clara University season.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>From high school standout to Santa Clara University\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>By all accounts, Newsom was a talented baseball player at Redwood High School in Marin County, where he was also a star on the basketball team before graduating in 1985. His name appears in the \u003cem>San Francisco Examiner\u003c/em>’s prep coverage from the time — banging home runs, hitting a game-winning single in the Marin County Athletic League championship his senior year and being named to the all-league first team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Publications including \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/05/gavin-newsom-the-next-head-of-the-california-resistance\">\u003cem>The New Yorker\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/27/sports/baseball/27mayors.html\">\u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.marinij.com/2007/07/08/dave-albee-sf-mayor-takes-his-licks-at-att-park/\">the \u003cem>Marin Independent Journal\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20091127090647/http:/www.mensjournal.com/newsom\">Men’s Journal\u003c/a> \u003c/em>have reported over the years that the Texas Rangers drafted, recruited or showed interest in Newsom in high school.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>In 2009, a Newsom spokesperson \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20090430051404/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/cityinsider/detail?entry_id=39062\">clarified\u003c/a> to the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> that he had merely been scouted, not drafted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Nathan Click, spokesperson for Gavin Newsom\"]‘He chooses to talk about the emotional side of it, because he thinks that is the place that young people in particular, who are going through struggles, people with dyslexia, can find themselves in his story.’[/pullquote]Newsom was among the hundreds of high school players across the country whom the Rangers organization looked at while preparing for the annual amateur draft, according to a spokesperson for the team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spokesperson John Blake wrote in an email that the Rangers’ chief California scout from the time “said that we did watch Governor Newsom play in high school, but he doesn’t remember us specially scouting him.” He said major league teams are very thorough in scouting California and “it is likely there were several players on this particular high school team that our scouts had interest in seeing, including Governor Newsom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom spokesperson Click said the governor received business cards from those scouts after they watched him play, which he has spoken about in past interviews. “They made a point to come up to him and introduce themselves, which means something,” Click said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom headed down the Peninsula to Santa Clara University, a private Jesuit college where he was a freshman in the fall of 1985. Having struggled in high school, with a reported SAT score of 960 out of 1600, Newsom has long \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/01/us/college-sports-gavin-newsom.html\">credited baseball\u003c/a> with securing his admission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a pretty severe learning disability, dyslexia, struggled academically, and the only reason Santa Clara University would have ever accepted me was because I was a left-handed first baseman who could hit fairly well,” he \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/01/us/college-sports-gavin-newsom.html\">told \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a> in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982126\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982126\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-SOCIAL-CM-01-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A young high school male with baseball uniform crouches on one knee and leans on a baseball bat.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-SOCIAL-CM-01-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-SOCIAL-CM-01-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-SOCIAL-CM-01-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-SOCIAL-CM-01-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-SOCIAL-CM-01-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom played baseball and graduated from Redwood High School in 1985. \u003ccite>(Photo from Gavin Newsom’s social media via CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Newsom also had help from several well-connected alumni.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill Connolly, a San Francisco investment banker and associate of William Newsom who played baseball at Santa Clara in the 1960s, put the younger Newsom on the team’s radar, according to Cummins, the former assistant coach. Connolly \u003ca href=\"https://magazine.scu.edu/classnote/bill-connolly/\">died in 2017\u003c/a>, and his widow could not be reached for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Connolly “was a very good supporter of us at the time, money-wise,” Cummins said, and pushed the coaches to check Newsom out. “That was pretty normal at the time,” Cummins said, especially in a pre-internet era when recruiting was more regional and word-of-mouth. He said the baseball team was not a “backdoor” to admit Newsom into the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Click said Newsom does not remember his family asking Connolly to recommend him to Santa Clara University “and if it’s true, it would be news to him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alongside then-head coach John Oldham, who died in February, Cummins eventually visited Newsom at home and recruited him to Santa Clara. The team had a junior varsity squad at the time, which it used as a “minor league,” Cummins said, so Newsom had a guaranteed spot in the program, but would have to perform well enough to play in varsity games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was offered a scholarship of $500 in October 1985, during fall quarter of his freshman year, according to a photograph of a section of the paperwork provided by Click, though it’s unclear if that’s the only payment he received. Click said Newsom was unable to locate the original document. The cost of attendance for Santa Clara University that year was $10,251, including tuition, room and board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eager to ensure his spot, Newsom’s family also solicited letters of recommendation \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article7965822.html\">from former Gov. Jerry Brown\u003c/a>, who attended Santa Clara University for one year and appointed William Newsom to the Superior Court and the state Court of Appeal during his first term as governor, and from John Mallen, an attorney who served on Santa Clara’s board of regents at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mallen, who described William Newsom as “my best friend for 75 years,” said he did not frequently write letters of recommendation for applicants while he was on the board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982127\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982127\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Newsom-Baseball-Headlines-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Illustration with newspaper clippings.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Newsom-Baseball-Headlines-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Newsom-Baseball-Headlines-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Newsom-Baseball-Headlines-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Newsom-Baseball-Headlines-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Newsom-Baseball-Headlines-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A series of newspaper clippings that highlight Newsom’s baseball accomplishments during high school. \u003ccite>(Illustration by Miguel Gutierrez Jr./CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“In fact, I may not have helped anybody else get in,” Mallen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though he does not have a copy of the letter anymore, Mallen said it was probably addressed to the president of the university and would have been a character reference for the younger Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, I’d known him since birth,” Mallen said. “He was a good athlete. That I remember.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mallen said it “absolutely” would have been “hugely influential” in helping Newsom gain admission to Santa Clara: “I think it was a big help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Click denied that the letters of recommendations played any role in Newsom’s acceptance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Baseball was the reason he got into university and the partial baseball scholarship shows it,” Click said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>College baseball cut short by elbow injury\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Newsom has previously said he played baseball his first two years at Santa Clara University before injuring his throwing arm and reevaluating his path, a timeline repeated in major profiles of Newsom, most recently by \u003ca href=\"https://lamag.com/featured/gavin-newsom-recall\">Los Angeles Magazine\u003c/a> in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ultimately, I had an ulnar nerve issue and threw out my arm and had a surgery and really didn’t come back,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/onlyagame/2019/10/18/california-governor-gavin-newsom-lebron-james-fair-pay-to-play-act\">he told WBUR\u003c/a>, a Boston public radio station, in 2019. “And then I had to make that tough choice of, ‘What the hell do I do with my life?’ Because I was just so consumed by baseball.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To report this story, CalMatters reached out to coaches and teammates listed on the Broncos rosters for the 1986 and 1987 seasons. They\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>said Newsom played only during the fall tryout periods of his freshman and sophomore years, when prospective players trained and rotated into practice games against other local universities, and no official statistics were kept.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several people recalled that Newsom was around\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>for just the first few weeks, perhaps as much as six weeks, as a freshman. He did not make the 1986 roster, as reflected in the game program and media guide “The Boys of Spring.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982130\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982130\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Santa-Clara-Baseball-Roster-CM-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A team roster on an illustrated background.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1960\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Santa-Clara-Baseball-Roster-CM-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Santa-Clara-Baseball-Roster-CM-copy-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Santa-Clara-Baseball-Roster-CM-copy-1020x1275.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Santa-Clara-Baseball-Roster-CM-copy-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Santa-Clara-Baseball-Roster-CM-copy-1229x1536.jpg 1229w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom does not appear on the 1986 Santa Clara University baseball roster. \u003ccite>(Illustration by Miguel Gutierrez Jr./CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Newsom was not one of the standout prospects that year — “We would have known he was a big scholarship player who crapped out,” said Jim Flynn, who was a freshman pitcher — but no one interviewed by CalMatters disputes his athletic ability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Victor Cole, a freshman in the 1986 season who split his time pitching and playing outfield for the varsity team and playing outfield for the junior varsity team, said Newsom “was a good athlete” and “he looked like somebody who could play college ball.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone who was recruited had talent. So he had talent,” said Cole, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.espn.com/mlb/player/_/id/2695/victor-cole\">briefly played\u003c/a> for the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1992 and \u003ca href=\"https://cbubucs.com/sports/baseball/roster/coaches/victor-cole/504\">now coaches\u003c/a> at Christian Brothers University in Memphis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Machi, who also arrived in 1985, said Newsom caught his attention because they were competing for the same spot, playing first base.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do recall him being a fairly athletic guy. It wasn’t like he was a fish out of water,” Machi said. “As a competitor, you’re always looking around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But within a few weeks, Newsom had “just disappeared,” Machi said. “He didn’t have any accolades on the field.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Gavin Newsom\"]‘I had to make that tough choice of, ‘What the hell do I do with my life?’ Because I was just so consumed by baseball.’[/pullquote]Struggling with pain in his left elbow, Newsom underwent ulnar nerve surgery in late 1985 and took the rest of the season off, Click said. Dr. \u003ca href=\"https://www.poadocs.com/provider/michael-f-dillingham-md\">Michael Dillingham\u003c/a>, an orthopedic surgeon in Daly City who was the team doctor at the time, confirmed to CalMatters that he performed the operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the surgery, however, Newsom did not rehabilitate his arm through the Santa Clara baseball program, recalled Larry Donahe, then a freshman pitcher who also sat out the 1986 season recovering from an elbow operation for the same injury as Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If he had a bad elbow and was hurt and was doing any sort of rehab, I probably would have seen him,” said Donahe, who had a full-ride scholarship and continued to play for the Broncos through other surgeries his sophomore and junior years. “He never came into the training room.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Click said Newsom was in a cast and then physical therapy for several months and did not begin training seriously to return to baseball until the summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He tried out for the Broncos again in fall 1986 as a sophomore but “couldn’t make it work” because of continued elbow pain, Click said. Before the regular season began, Newsom gave up his beloved sport for good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Players said Newsom was not particularly close to his teammates and they were uncertain of the circumstances of his departure. Many wondered if he lost interest in baseball because of the fierce demands of Santa Clara’s program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the NCAA had not yet \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/10/sports/ncaa-cuts-practice-scholarships-and-seasons.html\">established limits on student-athletes’ time\u003c/a>, players described the team in that era as a full-time job, even during fall tryouts: multiple games each week; practices that ran from the early afternoon until after the dining hall stopped serving dinner and all day on the weekends; extra training including 5 a.m. workouts; and vision strengthening and success visualization classes, where players would lie on the floor with their eyes closed and imagine how to improve their technique.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you had a life, you chose to do something else. If you were a baseball lifer you loved it,” Matt Toole, who played baseball at Santa Clara from 1985 to 1989 and then two seasons in the minor leagues, wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom “actually played well enough to make our team both years,” he wrote. “He had a lot of potential but he chose not to play.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982131\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982131\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-SOCIAL-CM-02-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of a young boy in baseball uniform with a hat and bat.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-SOCIAL-CM-02-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-SOCIAL-CM-02-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-SOCIAL-CM-02-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-SOCIAL-CM-02-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-SOCIAL-CM-02-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A young Gavin Newsom in a baseball uniform. \u003ccite>(CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Click said Newsom may not have felt comfortable sharing his injury publicly at the time because he was ashamed not to live up to the success he experienced earlier in his baseball career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was really a crushing moment for him,” Click said, “especially somebody who had been really hyped up by everyone around him in Little League, in high school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the legend of Newsom’s feats on the diamond\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>endured. In a 2010 story previewing the Giants-Rangers World Series, The New York Times \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/27/sports/baseball/27mayors.html\">contrasted the baseball careers\u003c/a> of the mayors for the two teams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert joked about his brief stint playing junior varsity at Claremont McKenna College: “They put me in when it was time for the outfielders to do wind sprints.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Times called Newsom “more serious about the game,” noting the then-San Francisco mayor played for two years at Santa Clara University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was your standard 6-foot-3-inch first baseman,” Newsom told the paper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Newsom told the story himself again in January on \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIn1YknOSsc#t=1h00m38s\">the podcast Pod Save America\u003c/a>: Because of poor test scores, he was headed to community college until he got a call from the Santa Clara University baseball coaches. “It was literally the ticket to a four-year university. It changed my life, my trajectory,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But former coaches and teammates said that biography, repeated again and again through interviews and glossy magazine profiles and coverage of his 2021 \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/09/30/gov-newsom-writes-childrens-book-inspired-by-personal-experience-with-dyslexia/\">baseball-themed children’s book\u003c/a> on overcoming dyslexia, has inflated Newsom’s baseball credentials, giving the impression that he was a more accomplished player than he was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most notably, Newsom never played an official game for Santa Clara University; he was a junior varsity recruit who played only during the fall tryouts his freshman and sophomore years, then left the baseball program before the regular season began. He does not appear on the Broncos’ \u003ca href=\"https://santaclarabroncos.com/sports/2023/6/20/all-time-roster-bold-indicates-current-player-bb.aspx\">all-time roster\u003c/a> or in media guides published by the athletic department to preview the upcoming season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982110\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982110\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/040224_Snow_Survey_Newsom_FG_CM_02-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged white man wearing jeans and a blue buttoned shirt and sunglasses throws a snowball with snow and trees in the background.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1046\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/040224_Snow_Survey_Newsom_FG_CM_02-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/040224_Snow_Survey_Newsom_FG_CM_02-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/040224_Snow_Survey_Newsom_FG_CM_02-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/040224_Snow_Survey_Newsom_FG_CM_02-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/040224_Snow_Survey_Newsom_FG_CM_02-copy-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom tosses a snowball after the California Department of Water Resources conducted a media snow survey at Phillips Station in the Sierra Nevada on April 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Fred Greaves/California Department of Water Resources)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A deeper look at his recruitment also reveals that Newsom’s admission to Santa Clara University — like \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-pol-ca-gavin-newsom-san-francisco-money/\">so many of his formative opportunities\u003c/a> — was substantially boosted by friends and acquaintances of his father, William Newsom, a San Francisco judge and financial adviser to the Gettys, the wealthy oil family. One associate connected Newsom to the baseball program when he was in high school, while his father’s best friend, then a member of the university’s board of regents, wrote him a letter of recommendation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Cummins, the assistant coach at Santa Clara while Newsom was there, said the governor has “embellished his baseball career a little bit at times.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He never played in a varsity game. He may have played in some scrimmages,” said Cummins, who is now the \u003ca href=\"https://eastbaypioneers.com/staff-directory/mike-cummins/193\">head baseball coach\u003c/a> at California State University, East Bay. “He’s embellished it. It’s half-truths. He was recruited to Santa Clara, he was there in the fall, but he never played. He didn’t have a varsity career there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The misconception has been propelled as much by what Newsom doesn’t say as what he does — a polished sweep over his time at Santa Clara University that rarely gets more detailed than, “I played a little baseball. Just my first and second year,” as he told The Santa Clara, the student newspaper, in \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20090426073753/http:/media.www.thesantaclara.com/media/storage/paper946/news/2008/02/14/News/San-Franciscos.Gavin.Newsom.Sits.Down.With.The.Santa.Clara-3210314.shtml\">a 2008 interview\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not for the first time in his career, Newsom has allowed a more flattering version of events to develop in the public discourse while being slow to clear up the inaccuracies. During his first gubernatorial campaign in 2018, he acknowledged that \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article209176644.html\">he never attended rehab\u003c/a>, as was widely reported more than a decade earlier after he pledged to seek treatment for problems with alcohol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Broncos players from the era, who said they still regularly get asked about Newsom when people find out they played baseball at Santa Clara, wanted to correct the record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He didn’t earn it. He didn’t earn the right to say it,” said Kevin Schneider, who pitched for two seasons and now runs a pitching academy in San Francisco. “I worked my ass off. So did everyone else on that team. For him to just go all these years, to say he did something he didn’t that takes not just talent but also dedication and effort and sacrifice, it’s not right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spokespeople for Newsom rejected multiple requests to interview the governor about his baseball career. They said Newsom had never exaggerated his experience at Santa Clara University and that it was not his job to fix whatever mistaken assumptions the public may have developed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s been very honest and consistent about what happened to him in college and more personable than you would get from most politicians,” spokesperson Bob Salladay said. “He is not responsible for other people’s impressions or interpretations of him and his life. He is doing his job, and he cannot spend his entire day correcting people when they make errors about him. He’s moved on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom speaks about his baseball journey with “emotional, real truth that is visceral to him,” said Nathan Click, another spokesperson for the governor. “We all go through life and remember the emotions we feel about things, not, you know, facts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He chooses to talk about the emotional side of it, because he thinks that is the place that young people in particular, who are going through struggles, people with dyslexia, can find themselves in his story,” Click said. “That matters way more than, you know, whether he was a rostered player or what his stats were in the fall ball, JV, freshman year, Santa Clara University season.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>From high school standout to Santa Clara University\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>By all accounts, Newsom was a talented baseball player at Redwood High School in Marin County, where he was also a star on the basketball team before graduating in 1985. His name appears in the \u003cem>San Francisco Examiner\u003c/em>’s prep coverage from the time — banging home runs, hitting a game-winning single in the Marin County Athletic League championship his senior year and being named to the all-league first team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Publications including \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/05/gavin-newsom-the-next-head-of-the-california-resistance\">\u003cem>The New Yorker\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/27/sports/baseball/27mayors.html\">\u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.marinij.com/2007/07/08/dave-albee-sf-mayor-takes-his-licks-at-att-park/\">the \u003cem>Marin Independent Journal\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20091127090647/http:/www.mensjournal.com/newsom\">Men’s Journal\u003c/a> \u003c/em>have reported over the years that the Texas Rangers drafted, recruited or showed interest in Newsom in high school.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>In 2009, a Newsom spokesperson \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20090430051404/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/cityinsider/detail?entry_id=39062\">clarified\u003c/a> to the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> that he had merely been scouted, not drafted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Newsom was among the hundreds of high school players across the country whom the Rangers organization looked at while preparing for the annual amateur draft, according to a spokesperson for the team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spokesperson John Blake wrote in an email that the Rangers’ chief California scout from the time “said that we did watch Governor Newsom play in high school, but he doesn’t remember us specially scouting him.” He said major league teams are very thorough in scouting California and “it is likely there were several players on this particular high school team that our scouts had interest in seeing, including Governor Newsom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom spokesperson Click said the governor received business cards from those scouts after they watched him play, which he has spoken about in past interviews. “They made a point to come up to him and introduce themselves, which means something,” Click said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom headed down the Peninsula to Santa Clara University, a private Jesuit college where he was a freshman in the fall of 1985. Having struggled in high school, with a reported SAT score of 960 out of 1600, Newsom has long \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/01/us/college-sports-gavin-newsom.html\">credited baseball\u003c/a> with securing his admission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a pretty severe learning disability, dyslexia, struggled academically, and the only reason Santa Clara University would have ever accepted me was because I was a left-handed first baseman who could hit fairly well,” he \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/01/us/college-sports-gavin-newsom.html\">told \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a> in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982126\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982126\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-SOCIAL-CM-01-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A young high school male with baseball uniform crouches on one knee and leans on a baseball bat.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-SOCIAL-CM-01-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-SOCIAL-CM-01-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-SOCIAL-CM-01-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-SOCIAL-CM-01-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-SOCIAL-CM-01-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom played baseball and graduated from Redwood High School in 1985. \u003ccite>(Photo from Gavin Newsom’s social media via CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Newsom also had help from several well-connected alumni.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill Connolly, a San Francisco investment banker and associate of William Newsom who played baseball at Santa Clara in the 1960s, put the younger Newsom on the team’s radar, according to Cummins, the former assistant coach. Connolly \u003ca href=\"https://magazine.scu.edu/classnote/bill-connolly/\">died in 2017\u003c/a>, and his widow could not be reached for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Connolly “was a very good supporter of us at the time, money-wise,” Cummins said, and pushed the coaches to check Newsom out. “That was pretty normal at the time,” Cummins said, especially in a pre-internet era when recruiting was more regional and word-of-mouth. He said the baseball team was not a “backdoor” to admit Newsom into the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Click said Newsom does not remember his family asking Connolly to recommend him to Santa Clara University “and if it’s true, it would be news to him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alongside then-head coach John Oldham, who died in February, Cummins eventually visited Newsom at home and recruited him to Santa Clara. The team had a junior varsity squad at the time, which it used as a “minor league,” Cummins said, so Newsom had a guaranteed spot in the program, but would have to perform well enough to play in varsity games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was offered a scholarship of $500 in October 1985, during fall quarter of his freshman year, according to a photograph of a section of the paperwork provided by Click, though it’s unclear if that’s the only payment he received. Click said Newsom was unable to locate the original document. The cost of attendance for Santa Clara University that year was $10,251, including tuition, room and board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eager to ensure his spot, Newsom’s family also solicited letters of recommendation \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article7965822.html\">from former Gov. Jerry Brown\u003c/a>, who attended Santa Clara University for one year and appointed William Newsom to the Superior Court and the state Court of Appeal during his first term as governor, and from John Mallen, an attorney who served on Santa Clara’s board of regents at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mallen, who described William Newsom as “my best friend for 75 years,” said he did not frequently write letters of recommendation for applicants while he was on the board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982127\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982127\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Newsom-Baseball-Headlines-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Illustration with newspaper clippings.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Newsom-Baseball-Headlines-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Newsom-Baseball-Headlines-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Newsom-Baseball-Headlines-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Newsom-Baseball-Headlines-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Newsom-Baseball-Headlines-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A series of newspaper clippings that highlight Newsom’s baseball accomplishments during high school. \u003ccite>(Illustration by Miguel Gutierrez Jr./CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“In fact, I may not have helped anybody else get in,” Mallen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though he does not have a copy of the letter anymore, Mallen said it was probably addressed to the president of the university and would have been a character reference for the younger Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, I’d known him since birth,” Mallen said. “He was a good athlete. That I remember.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mallen said it “absolutely” would have been “hugely influential” in helping Newsom gain admission to Santa Clara: “I think it was a big help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Click denied that the letters of recommendations played any role in Newsom’s acceptance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Baseball was the reason he got into university and the partial baseball scholarship shows it,” Click said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>College baseball cut short by elbow injury\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Newsom has previously said he played baseball his first two years at Santa Clara University before injuring his throwing arm and reevaluating his path, a timeline repeated in major profiles of Newsom, most recently by \u003ca href=\"https://lamag.com/featured/gavin-newsom-recall\">Los Angeles Magazine\u003c/a> in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ultimately, I had an ulnar nerve issue and threw out my arm and had a surgery and really didn’t come back,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/onlyagame/2019/10/18/california-governor-gavin-newsom-lebron-james-fair-pay-to-play-act\">he told WBUR\u003c/a>, a Boston public radio station, in 2019. “And then I had to make that tough choice of, ‘What the hell do I do with my life?’ Because I was just so consumed by baseball.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To report this story, CalMatters reached out to coaches and teammates listed on the Broncos rosters for the 1986 and 1987 seasons. They\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>said Newsom played only during the fall tryout periods of his freshman and sophomore years, when prospective players trained and rotated into practice games against other local universities, and no official statistics were kept.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several people recalled that Newsom was around\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>for just the first few weeks, perhaps as much as six weeks, as a freshman. 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Gavin Newsom does not appear on the 1986 Santa Clara University baseball roster. \u003ccite>(Illustration by Miguel Gutierrez Jr./CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Newsom was not one of the standout prospects that year — “We would have known he was a big scholarship player who crapped out,” said Jim Flynn, who was a freshman pitcher — but no one interviewed by CalMatters disputes his athletic ability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Victor Cole, a freshman in the 1986 season who split his time pitching and playing outfield for the varsity team and playing outfield for the junior varsity team, said Newsom “was a good athlete” and “he looked like somebody who could play college ball.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone who was recruited had talent. So he had talent,” said Cole, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.espn.com/mlb/player/_/id/2695/victor-cole\">briefly played\u003c/a> for the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1992 and \u003ca href=\"https://cbubucs.com/sports/baseball/roster/coaches/victor-cole/504\">now coaches\u003c/a> at Christian Brothers University in Memphis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Machi, who also arrived in 1985, said Newsom caught his attention because they were competing for the same spot, playing first base.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do recall him being a fairly athletic guy. It wasn’t like he was a fish out of water,” Machi said. “As a competitor, you’re always looking around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But within a few weeks, Newsom had “just disappeared,” Machi said. “He didn’t have any accolades on the field.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Dr. \u003ca href=\"https://www.poadocs.com/provider/michael-f-dillingham-md\">Michael Dillingham\u003c/a>, an orthopedic surgeon in Daly City who was the team doctor at the time, confirmed to CalMatters that he performed the operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the surgery, however, Newsom did not rehabilitate his arm through the Santa Clara baseball program, recalled Larry Donahe, then a freshman pitcher who also sat out the 1986 season recovering from an elbow operation for the same injury as Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If he had a bad elbow and was hurt and was doing any sort of rehab, I probably would have seen him,” said Donahe, who had a full-ride scholarship and continued to play for the Broncos through other surgeries his sophomore and junior years. “He never came into the training room.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Click said Newsom was in a cast and then physical therapy for several months and did not begin training seriously to return to baseball until the summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He tried out for the Broncos again in fall 1986 as a sophomore but “couldn’t make it work” because of continued elbow pain, Click said. Before the regular season began, Newsom gave up his beloved sport for good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Players said Newsom was not particularly close to his teammates and they were uncertain of the circumstances of his departure. Many wondered if he lost interest in baseball because of the fierce demands of Santa Clara’s program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the NCAA had not yet \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/10/sports/ncaa-cuts-practice-scholarships-and-seasons.html\">established limits on student-athletes’ time\u003c/a>, players described the team in that era as a full-time job, even during fall tryouts: multiple games each week; practices that ran from the early afternoon until after the dining hall stopped serving dinner and all day on the weekends; extra training including 5 a.m. workouts; and vision strengthening and success visualization classes, where players would lie on the floor with their eyes closed and imagine how to improve their technique.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you had a life, you chose to do something else. If you were a baseball lifer you loved it,” Matt Toole, who played baseball at Santa Clara from 1985 to 1989 and then two seasons in the minor leagues, wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom “actually played well enough to make our team both years,” he wrote. “He had a lot of potential but he chose not to play.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982131\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982131\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-SOCIAL-CM-02-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of a young boy in baseball uniform with a hat and bat.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-SOCIAL-CM-02-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-SOCIAL-CM-02-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-SOCIAL-CM-02-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-SOCIAL-CM-02-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-SOCIAL-CM-02-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A young Gavin Newsom in a baseball uniform. \u003ccite>(CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Click said Newsom may not have felt comfortable sharing his injury publicly at the time because he was ashamed not to live up to the success he experienced earlier in his baseball career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was really a crushing moment for him,” Click said, “especially somebody who had been really hyped up by everyone around him in Little League, in high school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the legend of Newsom’s feats on the diamond\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>endured. In a 2010 story previewing the Giants-Rangers World Series, The New York Times \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/27/sports/baseball/27mayors.html\">contrasted the baseball careers\u003c/a> of the mayors for the two teams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert joked about his brief stint playing junior varsity at Claremont McKenna College: “They put me in when it was time for the outfielders to do wind sprints.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Times called Newsom “more serious about the game,” noting the then-San Francisco mayor played for two years at Santa Clara University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was your standard 6-foot-3-inch first baseman,” Newsom told the paper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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They displayed “Sell” T-shirts and flags, threw beanbags at caricatures of team executives — including owner John Fisher and president Dave Kaval — and danced to live music while munching on dinner from food trucks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Hal Gordon, economist and former Coliseum hot dog vendor\"]‘We’re raising money to fight back. We’re urging people not to go in so they have less money to build their stadium.’[/pullquote]“Everyone’s in such a good mood because we’re all here for the same thing,” said Edward Silva, a student at San José State and a lifelong A’s fan. “Everyone knows the score. So everyone’s on the same page and just creating a wonderful atmosphere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The A’s opened gates to parking lots just two hours before the game to align with what they said was the expected attendance, but fan groups that organized the boycott, including the Oakland 68’s and The Last Dive Bar, said it was an attempt to limit the protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dennis Biles, an organizer with the Oakland 68’s, said at a rally in the parking lot that Thursday was the first A’s home game he missed in five years. Biles, a season ticket holder since 2007, chose to attend college locally so he could still go to A’s games. He noted that other fans probably made similar sacrifices to support the club, small or large.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For a long time, I really believed that the A’s were actually dedicated to the community,” Biles said. “And I really bought into that whole spiel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981236\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981236\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/GettyImages-2113299436.jpg\" alt=\"An older man with sunglasses and green and yellow hat watches through a net, another man with the same hat stands a little to his left.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/GettyImages-2113299436.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/GettyImages-2113299436-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/GettyImages-2113299436-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/GettyImages-2113299436-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A’s manager Mark Kotsay watches batting practice before the game against the Guardians at RingCentral Coliseum on Thursday, March 28. \u003ccite>(Lachlan Cunningham/MLB Photos via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The A’s plan to relocate to Las Vegas in 2028, but where they will play after this season remains uncertain, as their lease at the Coliseum expires. Sacramento and Salt Lake City have been floated as options, as has sharing Oracle Park with the San Francisco Giants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland 68’s and the Oakland United Coalition called at the rally for the Alameda County Board of Supervisors to back out of their agreement to sell their 50% stake of the Coliseum to the A’s. At another booth were organizers at Schools Over Stadiums, a group attempting to block public funding for the Las Vegas stadium in favor of money for education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thursday was the second large action taken by A’s fans during home games after plans to move to Las Vegas were announced. Last June, fans packed the Coliseum for a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/oakland-as-fans-reverse-boycott-sell-492340255543278241c63de72e2ddf77\">reverse boycott,\u003c/a> urging Fisher to sell the team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt like that was for us to know that it was important,” said Hal Gordon, an economist and former hot dog vendor at the Coliseum who became a fan favorite before he left in 2022. “This time, we’re fighting. We’re fighting back. We’re raising money to fight back. 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"content": "\u003cp>In the 1970s and ’80s, baseball fans got used to Steve Garvey smashing winning home runs and clutch hits in key games. In 1981, Garvey led the Los Angeles Dodgers to a World Series victory. In a nearly two-decade baseball career, Garvey was named MVP for the Dodgers and, later, the San Diego Padres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the former first baseman is headed to a very different kind of competition, a runoff election for an open U.S. Senate seat in California against Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garvey hopes to become the first Republican elected to represent California in the Senate since 1988. That won’t be easy in a state where \u003ca href=\"https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/ror/15day-presprim-2024/complete-ror.pdf\">registered Democrats heavily outnumber Republicans\u003c/a> by nearly two to one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"edTag\">A political outsider hopes to leverage discontent\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Marva Diaz, a political strategist who owns \u003ca href=\"https://californiatargetbook.com/\">California Target Book,\u003c/a> a nonpartisan publication tracking elections in California, said while Garvey hit a home run in the primary, a low turnout affair that skewed older and more Republican, that was the easy part.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“November is a whole new ballgame, right? That turnout is going to be different. There are different things on the ballot that they’re going to be turning out for,” Diaz said, suggesting that a larger November voter turnout will help Schiff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Lanhee Chen, director of domestic policy studies, Hoover Institute Public Policy Program at Stanford\"]‘His candidacy represents something very different, I think, for California Republicans. … He also has an opportunity, I think, to draw a line on issues that (are) probably a little bit more centrist, a little bit closer to the median California voter.’[/pullquote]Adding to his challenges, Diaz said the RNC is unlikely to spend major amounts of money on a long shot campaign like Garvey’s when there are other more competitive races they are facing in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet Lanhee Chen, who ran an unsuccessful bid as the Republican candidate for California’s state controller two years ago, said Garvey’s emergence despite his odds is significant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His candidacy represents something very different, I think, for California Republicans,” said Chen, who is now a fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chen thinks Garvey can win over undecided voters by appealing to their dissatisfaction with politics as usual. In a \u003ca href=\"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/46g7q3hk\">recent poll \u003c/a>from the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies, 57% of voters think the state is “off on the wrong track.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He also has an opportunity, I think, to draw a line on issues that (are) probably a little bit more centrist, a little bit closer to the median California voter,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a debate earlier this year, he said he would vote against a national ban on abortions. Yet Garvey has not provided a lot of specifics on other policy positions, focusing instead on trying to evoke nostalgia for what he sees as a prior golden era, promising a return to the “good old days.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11979594\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11979594\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/gettyimages-51469828_slide-862dac329cea3889068f494018dbf6f6bb4eb33e-s1600-c85-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1066\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/gettyimages-51469828_slide-862dac329cea3889068f494018dbf6f6bb4eb33e-s1600-c85-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/gettyimages-51469828_slide-862dac329cea3889068f494018dbf6f6bb4eb33e-s1600-c85-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/gettyimages-51469828_slide-862dac329cea3889068f494018dbf6f6bb4eb33e-s1600-c85-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/gettyimages-51469828_slide-862dac329cea3889068f494018dbf6f6bb4eb33e-s1600-c85-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/gettyimages-51469828_slide-862dac329cea3889068f494018dbf6f6bb4eb33e-s1600-c85-copy-1536x1023.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve Garvey of the Los Angeles Dodgers bats against the New York Yankees during the World Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles in October 1981. \u003ccite>(Focus on Sport via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Garvey often notes that when he came to California in the 1960s, the state was “the heartbeat of America, but now it’s just a murmur.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was a Beach Boys era in Southern California history,” said GOP consultant Mike Madrid, an ardent opponent of former President Trump’s brand of Republicanism and a co-founder of the \u003ca href=\"https://lincolnproject.us/\">Lincoln Project, \u003c/a>adding that the state’s 1960s era no longer resonates with as many Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With the exception of Arnold Schwarzenegger, who sort of transcended partisan politics, that Republican ceiling has remained remarkably consistent for the better part of 25 years,” Madrid said, referring to the actor-turned-Republican governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"edTag\">Garvey faces long odds to ‘get back in the game’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In October, the low profile Garvey kept at his home near Palm Springs was interrupted when he released \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NC44seizfO8&t=2s\">a video\u003c/a> announcing a run for the U.S. Senate, promising to run a “common sense campaign” for the seat held by Dianne Feinstein until her death last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s time to get off the bench,” he said in the video. “It’s time to put the uniform back on. It’s time to get back in the game.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garvey entered a race dominated by three Democrats already representing California in Congress, Reps. Barbara Lee, Katie Porter and Adam Schiff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11979596\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11979596\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/ap24024076937939_slide-0f04130c8f15a675564791315f8157d985b4c0e6-s1600-c85-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1066\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/ap24024076937939_slide-0f04130c8f15a675564791315f8157d985b4c0e6-s1600-c85-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/ap24024076937939_slide-0f04130c8f15a675564791315f8157d985b4c0e6-s1600-c85-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/ap24024076937939_slide-0f04130c8f15a675564791315f8157d985b4c0e6-s1600-c85-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/ap24024076937939_slide-0f04130c8f15a675564791315f8157d985b4c0e6-s1600-c85-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/ap24024076937939_slide-0f04130c8f15a675564791315f8157d985b4c0e6-s1600-c85-copy-1536x1023.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Candidates, from left, Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.) and former baseball player Steve Garvey, stand on stage during a televised debate on Jan. 22 in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Damian Dovarganes/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As the only Republican when the candidates first faced off on the debate stage in January, Garvey sought to portray himself as a pragmatic, moderate Republican.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there was one problem with that portrayal. He voted for Donald Trump twice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a state where President Biden beat Trump by about 30 points in 2020, that matters. His support for Trump hounded him at all three debates before the March primary. When asked if he would vote for Trump against President Biden, Garvey replied, “I will look at the two opponents, I will determine what they did, and at that time, I will make my choice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11978232,news_11978528,news_11973349\"]That prompted this sarcastic response from Congresswoman Porter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, California, I think what they say is true. ‘Once a Dodger, always a Dodger,'” receiving laughs from the debate audience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Schiff, who built a national reputation as the former president’s leading adversary in Congress during his time as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, saw Garvey’s earlier support for Trump as an opportunity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under California’s primary system, the top two finishers in the March primary will face off in November, regardless of party. And Schiff — who led in pre-election polls — knew that facing the Republican Garvey would be a much easier lift than a runoff against another Democrat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schiff then spent millions of dollars on television ads highlighting Garvey’s votes for Trump and claimed that Garvey was “too conservative for California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ads helped raise his profile among Republicans, elevating Garvey over other GOP candidates on the primary ballot. Porter argued that the ads actually helped consolidate Republican votes for Garvey, a view widely shared by campaign professionals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it worked, perhaps even better than Schiff could have imagined. Not only did it boost Garvey into the top two and a November runoff, as \u003ca href=\"https://electionresults.sos.ca.gov/returns/us-senate\">ballots continue to be counted, \u003c/a>Garvey and Schiff are nearly tied for first place in two separate races for the open Senate seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Steve Garvey\"]‘What you are feeling tonight is what it’s like to hit a walk-off home run. Keep in mind, this is the first game of a doubleheader, so keep the evening of Nov. 5th open.’[/pullquote]In November, voters have two Senate elections to decide who will finish the rest of the late Sen. 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In a \u003ca href=\"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/46g7q3hk\">recent poll \u003c/a>from the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies, 57% of voters think the state is “off on the wrong track.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He also has an opportunity, I think, to draw a line on issues that (are) probably a little bit more centrist, a little bit closer to the median California voter,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a debate earlier this year, he said he would vote against a national ban on abortions. 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The measure must now be approved by the state Assembly and the governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952972\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11952972 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66248__DSC3948-KQED.jpg\" alt='A man in a lime green shirt that reads \"sell\" points and smiles at the camera while standing in a parking lot.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66248__DSC3948-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66248__DSC3948-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66248__DSC3948-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66248__DSC3948-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66248__DSC3948-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66248__DSC3948-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matthew Wohl at the reverse boycott at the Oakland Coliseum on June 13, 2023. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I feel like my heart is being ripped out. It’s the worst feeling in the world, really,” Matthew Wohl, a lifelong A’s fan, said during a tailgate party before the game Tuesday night. “I’ve barely been watching baseball this year, but I know more than likely they’re leaving. Watching them leave is just killing me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Baseball needs to be in Oakland,” he insisted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the A’s defy the odds and manage to stay “rooted in Oakland,” as its supporters are demanding, the team would face an already bruised and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11947286/devastated-oakland-as-fans-react-to-teams-vegas-move\">devastated fan base\u003c/a> that has united in condemning Fisher and team president Dave Kaval. Both executives, they say, have poorly managed the team and are betraying a city the A’s have called home since moving from Kansas City in 1968.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now, the owner owns the team, but it’s not theirs, it’s the community’s,” said Jorge Leon, president of A’s fan group the Oakland ’68s, at the Coliseum last week. “The A’s [management] have been alienating the fan base for a while. It’s nothing new. And so, now it’s the last straw — and people are tired of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland ’68s are known for sitting in the right-field bleachers, spiritedly rooting for their team. Since news of the potential A’s Vegas move, the group has taken to chanting brazen sentiments such as, “Sell the team,” as they beat on drums.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952927\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66260_DSC03329-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11952927\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66260_DSC03329-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A large crowd of people wearing Oakland A's clothing fill an outdoor parking lot.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66260_DSC03329-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66260_DSC03329-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66260_DSC03329-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66260_DSC03329-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66260_DSC03329-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66260_DSC03329-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fans of the Oakland A’s gather at the Oakland Coliseum as part of a reverse boycott to protest the ownership of the team. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the last few months, the group raised more than $27,000 from fans in Oakland and farther afield, and teamed up with local clothing company Oaklandish to produce the “Sell” T-shirts that go for $5 a pop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adrian Batres, who drove down from Sacramento for Tuesday’s event, was among the thousands donning the green T-shirts. “I’ve had a big love affair with the A’s over the Giants for quite some time. And I felt that it was kind of a personal thing, especially when I consider them my team,” said Batres, who’s been a die-hard fan for four decades. “So even suggesting the fact they’re going to move to Las Vegas is kind of a big deal to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952915\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-02-AC-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11952915\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-02-AC-KQED.jpg\" alt='Three men stand beside a car with t-shirts that read \"sell\" drinking beer, eating snacks and talking to each other.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-02-AC-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-02-AC-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-02-AC-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-02-AC-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-02-AC-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-02-AC-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adrian Batres (right) joins other Oakland A’s fans during a reverse boycott at the Oakland Coliseum. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Katie Callahan-Cisco said she and her older sister had come both to support the team and as tribute to their father, Dick Callahan, the longtime A’s public address announcer, who died in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so gratifying to see all of these people supporting the team and this reverse boycott,” she said. “The fans really initiated this and then it just really spread like wildfire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just before first pitch, the A’s announced they would donate all ticket revenue from the game to the Alameda County Community Food Bank and Oakland Public Education Fund — a total of $811,107.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952928\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11952928 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66268__DSC3917-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A group of seven people stand together to take a photo in an outdoor parking lot, all but one wear t-shirts reading "sell" and several wear Oakland A's hats.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66268__DSC3917-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66268__DSC3917-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66268__DSC3917-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66268__DSC3917-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66268__DSC3917-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66268__DSC3917-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Colleen Callahan (second from the right), Cary Kennerley (left of center) and Katie Callahan-Cisco (center) tailgate in the parking lot of the Oakland Coliseum with their families. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The fight to keep the A’s in Oakland comes just three years after the city lost the Raiders — also to Las Vegas. The year before, the Golden State Warriors jumped ship to a new stadium in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The A’s, who play in the American League West, currently sit at the bottom of their division and, at 19–50, have lost more games this season than any other team in the league. Still, they managed to beat the Rays — who have the best record in baseball — on Monday and Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952916\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-03-AC-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11952916 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-03-AC-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two young men wearing Oakland A's jerseys look at the camera while standing beside a car a large open parking lot.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-03-AC-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-03-AC-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-03-AC-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-03-AC-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-03-AC-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-03-AC-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacob and Joseph Palpallatoc join other fans of the Oakland A’s during a reverse boycott at the Oakland Coliseum to protest the ownership of the baseball team. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is ridiculous that they’re trying to move to Las Vegas. I think that we need to keep them here in Oakland,” said Annette Burt, 60, who has been an A’s fan since she was 5 years old. “It’s been a family pastime for me forever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burt said she understands the chances of the team staying here are slim, but is still holding out hope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think it’s a done deal,” she said. “I think there’s still enough interest, and it can be a very competitive team and it has been in the past. If we had owners backing us up, it would be very successful. And it would be successful for Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from KQED’s Phoebe Quinton and Matthew Green, and The Associated Press.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Oakland A’s fans swarmed into the Coliseum Tuesday night, many wearing green T-shirts emblazoned with the word “Sell” as part of a last-ditch effort to keep the team in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sell the team!” fans chanted thousands of times during the A’s 2–1 victory against the Tampa Bay Rays that gave Oakland a season-best seven-game winning streak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers of the so-called reverse boycott, which drew the biggest crowd of the season at 27,759, are calling for A’s owner John Fisher to sell the 55-year-old baseball franchise to a buyer committed to keeping the team in Oakland, rather than moving forward with plans to build a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11949532/oakland-as-signal-move-to-las-vegas-strip-after-reaching-an-agreement-for-potential-stadium-site\">$1.5 billion stadium on the Las Vegas Strip\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the proposed move to the desert came one step closer to reality Tuesday afternoon when the Nevada state Senate \u003ca href=\"https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/politics-and-government/nevada/2023-legislature/as-ballpark-funding-bill-approved-by-nevada-senate-2793296/\">voted in favor of an amended version\u003c/a> of a proposed $380 million public financing package for the new stadium. The measure must now be approved by the state Assembly and the governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952972\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11952972 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66248__DSC3948-KQED.jpg\" alt='A man in a lime green shirt that reads \"sell\" points and smiles at the camera while standing in a parking lot.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66248__DSC3948-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66248__DSC3948-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66248__DSC3948-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66248__DSC3948-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66248__DSC3948-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66248__DSC3948-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matthew Wohl at the reverse boycott at the Oakland Coliseum on June 13, 2023. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I feel like my heart is being ripped out. It’s the worst feeling in the world, really,” Matthew Wohl, a lifelong A’s fan, said during a tailgate party before the game Tuesday night. “I’ve barely been watching baseball this year, but I know more than likely they’re leaving. Watching them leave is just killing me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Baseball needs to be in Oakland,” he insisted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the A’s defy the odds and manage to stay “rooted in Oakland,” as its supporters are demanding, the team would face an already bruised and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11947286/devastated-oakland-as-fans-react-to-teams-vegas-move\">devastated fan base\u003c/a> that has united in condemning Fisher and team president Dave Kaval. Both executives, they say, have poorly managed the team and are betraying a city the A’s have called home since moving from Kansas City in 1968.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now, the owner owns the team, but it’s not theirs, it’s the community’s,” said Jorge Leon, president of A’s fan group the Oakland ’68s, at the Coliseum last week. “The A’s [management] have been alienating the fan base for a while. It’s nothing new. And so, now it’s the last straw — and people are tired of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland ’68s are known for sitting in the right-field bleachers, spiritedly rooting for their team. Since news of the potential A’s Vegas move, the group has taken to chanting brazen sentiments such as, “Sell the team,” as they beat on drums.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952927\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66260_DSC03329-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11952927\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66260_DSC03329-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A large crowd of people wearing Oakland A's clothing fill an outdoor parking lot.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66260_DSC03329-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66260_DSC03329-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66260_DSC03329-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66260_DSC03329-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66260_DSC03329-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66260_DSC03329-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fans of the Oakland A’s gather at the Oakland Coliseum as part of a reverse boycott to protest the ownership of the team. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the last few months, the group raised more than $27,000 from fans in Oakland and farther afield, and teamed up with local clothing company Oaklandish to produce the “Sell” T-shirts that go for $5 a pop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adrian Batres, who drove down from Sacramento for Tuesday’s event, was among the thousands donning the green T-shirts. “I’ve had a big love affair with the A’s over the Giants for quite some time. 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