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From 1973–76, he went 77–48 and 0–3 in the World Series.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948728\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-72343526.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11948728\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-72343526-800x943.jpg\" alt=\"A vintage black and white photo of a Black man dressed in a baseball uniform getting ready throw a baseball.\" width=\"800\" height=\"943\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-72343526-800x943.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-72343526-160x189.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-72343526.jpg 869w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vida Blue, No. 14 for the Oakland Athletics, pitching during a game at County Stadium in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1974. \u003ccite>(Ronald C. Modra/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 1975, he pitched the first five innings of a no-hitter against the California Angels, but was pulled early by manager Alvin Dark to rest him for the playoffs in a game finished by Glenn Abbott, Paul Lindblad and Rollie Fingers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Blue clashed publicly with Finley, the A’s owner traded Blue twice only to be blocked each time by baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finley attempted in June 1976 to trade Blue to the New York Yankees for $1.5 million and Joe Rudi and Rollie Fingers to the Boston Red Sox for $1 million each. Kuhn vetoed the deals under the commissioner’s authority to act in the “best interest of baseball.” In December 1977, Kuhn stopped Finley from trading Blue to Cincinnati for $1.75 million and minor league first baseman Dave Revering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blue was traded to the Giants the following March in a deal that brought Oakland seven players, including outfielder Gary Thomasson and catcher Gary Alexander. Blue was dealt to the Royals in March 1982 and released in August 1983.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His death comes weeks after the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11947211/oakland-mayor-says-as-fans-deserve-better-after-team-announces-deal-to-buy-vegas-stadium\">A’s announced plans to move the team to Las Vegas\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a big business, and getting traded is a part of the business,” said Blue in an interview with KQED last year about the team potentially leaving Oakland. “Teams come and teams go, and hopefully they get something resolved and the A’s can stay in Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Brian Watt contributed reporting to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>A six-time All-Star and three-time 20-game winner, Blue helped pitch the Swingin’ A’s, as Charley Finley’s colorful, mustachioed team was known, to consecutive World Series titles from 1972–74. Since then, only the 1998–2000 New York Yankees have accomplished the feat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are few players with a more decorated career than Vida Blue,” the A’s said in a statement. “Vida will always be a franchise legend and a friend.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Selected by the then-Kansas City Athletics on the second round of the 1967 amateur draft, Blue made his big league debut with Oakland on July 20, 1969, about a week shy of his 20th birthday. He made four starts and 12 relief appearances, then spent most of 1970 at Triple-A Iowa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Called up when rosters expanded, he pitched a one-hit shutout at Kansas City in his second start. In his fourth start, Blue pitched a no-hitter against Minnesota on Sept. 21 at 21 years, 55 days, which made him the youngest pitcher to throw a no-hitter since the live-ball era started in 1920.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He held out after his MVP season and signed a $50,000 one-year deal. Blue didn’t make his first start until May 24 and went 6–10. From 1973–76, he went 77–48 and 0–3 in the World Series.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948728\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-72343526.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11948728\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-72343526-800x943.jpg\" alt=\"A vintage black and white photo of a Black man dressed in a baseball uniform getting ready throw a baseball.\" width=\"800\" height=\"943\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-72343526-800x943.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-72343526-160x189.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-72343526.jpg 869w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vida Blue, No. 14 for the Oakland Athletics, pitching during a game at County Stadium in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1974. \u003ccite>(Ronald C. Modra/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 1975, he pitched the first five innings of a no-hitter against the California Angels, but was pulled early by manager Alvin Dark to rest him for the playoffs in a game finished by Glenn Abbott, Paul Lindblad and Rollie Fingers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Blue clashed publicly with Finley, the A’s owner traded Blue twice only to be blocked each time by baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finley attempted in June 1976 to trade Blue to the New York Yankees for $1.5 million and Joe Rudi and Rollie Fingers to the Boston Red Sox for $1 million each. Kuhn vetoed the deals under the commissioner’s authority to act in the “best interest of baseball.” In December 1977, Kuhn stopped Finley from trading Blue to Cincinnati for $1.75 million and minor league first baseman Dave Revering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blue was traded to the Giants the following March in a deal that brought Oakland seven players, including outfielder Gary Thomasson and catcher Gary Alexander. Blue was dealt to the Royals in March 1982 and released in August 1983.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His death comes weeks after the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11947211/oakland-mayor-says-as-fans-deserve-better-after-team-announces-deal-to-buy-vegas-stadium\">A’s announced plans to move the team to Las Vegas\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a big business, and getting traded is a part of the business,” said Blue in an interview with KQED last year about the team potentially leaving Oakland. “Teams come and teams go, and hopefully they get something resolved and the A’s can stay in Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Brian Watt contributed reporting to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A sports team is nothing without a community that supports it. Many Oakland A’s fans are still processing the news that their beloved team \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11947211/oakland-mayor-says-as-fans-deserve-better-after-team-announces-deal-to-buy-vegas-stadium\">signed a deal\u003c/a> to build a new stadium near the Las Vegas Strip. If all these plans go through, it seems like the A’s could leave their hometown altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Die-hard fans told KQED that they believed A’s leadership when it boasted its #RootedInOakland campaign. Now, many say they feel betrayed. There are fans who grew up going to the ballpark and who introduced their children to the excitement of baseball. Some have even proposed to their partners at the Coliseum. As Oakland stands to lose yet another sports team to Las Vegas, A’s fans share their heartfelt reactions and genuine memories of what the team has meant to The Town for more than five decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2006 during Game 3 of the opening round of the American League playoffs, Sean McKissick remembers, the A’s absolutely dismantled the Minnesota Twins and advanced to the next round of the playoffs. He said it’s one of his top memories next to the birth of his children. But it was one of those electrifying games that was made better by being part of a roaring crowd alongside his wife, his brothers and his parents.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Sean McKissick, longtime Oakland A’s fan\"]‘You’ve got such a fan base here. You’ve got such a history here. It’s the home of Rickey Henderson. How do the A’s leave the town where Rickey Henderson grew up?’[/pullquote]“I remember being in that crowd … we’ve already got the lead, but the bases are loaded for Marco Scutaro. He clears the bases with a double. The entire crowd, 50,000 strong, is chanting Scu-ta-ro, Scu-ta-ro,” McKissick said. “It was a high. I won’t say it’s better than the birth of my kids, but if you put that aside, it’s pretty high up on my most treasured memories.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McKissick grew up in the East Bay and said he spent his infancy in the Coliseum cheering on the A’s. He now lives in Fair Oaks, a suburb of Sacramento. But despite the distance, he was still making the drive to Oakland to attend A’s games with his family. He said being at the ballpark over the last 40 years truly shaped a significant part of his life. Now that the team is leaving, he’s unsure how to feel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just didn’t make sense to me. You’ve got such a fan base here. You’ve got such a history here. It’s the home of Rickey Henderson. How do the A’s leave the town where Rickey Henderson grew up?” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947301\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947301\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Courtesy-Michael-Garcia-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A family of four stand with Oakland A's mascot Stomper.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1928\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Courtesy-Michael-Garcia-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Courtesy-Michael-Garcia-800x602.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Courtesy-Michael-Garcia-1020x768.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Courtesy-Michael-Garcia-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Courtesy-Michael-Garcia-1536x1157.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Courtesy-Michael-Garcia-2048x1542.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Courtesy-Michael-Garcia-1920x1446.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland A’s fan Michael Garcia (far right) poses with (from left) his father, nephew and niece with A’s mascot Stomper. The family attended a game against the Kansas City Royals on June 17, 2022 — the first-ever MLB game Garcia’s niece and nephew attended. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Michael Garcia)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Michael Garcia, an application developer, said he has been going to the Coliseum for 20 years with his dad and still can’t believe the news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have experienced countless heartbreaks. Whether it was our favorite players getting traded or tolerating where all we could hope for was having at least a .500 season, we’ve been through it all.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Michael Garcia, longtime A’s fan\"]‘Despite the sadness and frustration that I feel, I am still thankful for all the wonderful memories that the A’s have given us over the years. Those are the memories that I will continue to cherish, even when we are no longer the Oakland Athletics.’[/pullquote]“The recent news regarding the A’s moving to Las Vegas was the biggest heartbreak by far. Despite the sadness and frustration that I feel, I am still thankful for all the wonderful memories that the A’s have given us over the years. Those are the memories that I will continue to cherish, even when we are no longer the Oakland Athletics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Medina, a former military member, said there were times during his service when he followed A’s games even when he had little to no reception. He kept up with the team because he cared about the sport and loved the A’s that much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been an A’s fan my entire life, but after this decision, I simply can’t watch or support them anymore,” he said. “It’s as if we’ve been backstabbed by a team that pushed the ‘Rooted in Oakland’ narrative. My family and friends were in utter shock by this decision because they were more than a team to us. They were a part of Oakland and our lives, and like the roots they claimed were there, they simply dug them out and chose to put them somewhere else and didn’t even bother to cover up the hole.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Longtime fan Brice Robinson-Wasley told KQED he cheered on the A’s from his small town in the Sierra Nevada foothills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I was a boy in the ’90s, the Giants were looking to relocate to Tampa. I was in Little League and the Giants were doing zero outreach to the community. The A’s, however, had every intention of staying. They had a Little League day where we got to watch a game, walk on the field, have the experience of a lifetime. I certainly have remembered it all my life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have been an A’s fan ever since. It occurs to me that the roles have been reversed: The Giants are now [the] ones with no intention to move and the A’s are the team looking for a way out (and they’ve gotten it). Even if by some miracle they do stay, who are the A’s building as lifelong fans like they did 25–30 years ago?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947298\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947298\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/CourtesyOaklandAs.jpg\" alt=\"Two men wearing green and gold baseball jerseys along with green baseball hats, smile from behind the golden Oakland A's 1972 World Champions trophy.\" width=\"1500\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/CourtesyOaklandAs.jpg 1500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/CourtesyOaklandAs-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/CourtesyOaklandAs-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/CourtesyOaklandAs-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/CourtesyOaklandAs-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Strat (left) and Jacob Vides met at an A’s game and became best buds. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Jacob Vides)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jacob Vides said the Oakland Coliseum is a place where fellow A’s fans bond over their team pride and become lifelong friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Michael and I] became best friends after we met at an A’s game in 2016. And have attended many more games together since. We have Oakland to thank for many great and fun memories,” Vides said. “We are devastated to learn about the potential move and feel let down by the A’s and to a lesser degree the city of Oakland. Our message is owners should veto this move, and MLB Commissioner Manfred should not waive the $2 billion relocation fee.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Vides weighed Oakland’s loss, other fans such as Michael Melland, an Oakland resident since 1988, say good riddance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“See ya. Wouldn’t want to be ya. They’ve destroyed this baseball team. They’ve insulted all of the fans. The owner is a billionaire … it’s like, OK, go ahead. We don’t want you here. … He ruined a whole brand here. I mean, look at these guys. What have they won? Three games and it’s already the last half of April. It’s terrible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why should the poor taxpayers of Oakland who can’t even keep the schools, or the police, or health care going, why should they have to pony up just so he can make even more money? It’s insane.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/pquinton99/status/1649160482866233354\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a dedicated A’s fan for more than 30 years, Connie Voss said she’s hurt just like everyone else, but looks forward to the upcoming soccer season and women’s sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m hurt that they’re leaving us. The way they’re leaving us. I was devastated … It really, really, really hurt. We kind of thought they were going to leave us, but hoping they weren’t,” she said. “But I’m trying to think positive and deal with the new kinds of sports that are coming: the soccer games and the women’s teams. I’m looking forward to all of that. I don’t want to live in the past. 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It’s a bit entitled, if you ask me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That whole ‘Rooted in Oakland’ thing is kind of like a slap in the face when you use that as a marketing strategy to promote your brand and, of course, that got you money, but now where’s that whole philosophy? Hearing [that] the Warriors, the Raiders and now the A’s are going to be leaving Oakland, it’s a bit of a slap in the face to a community who always stood behind their teams through rough, rough times. Now they’re gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947322\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947322\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS54998_012_KQED_BaseballFanEvent_04062022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An Oakland Athletics baseball fan wears the team's green and gold jersey. 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His family have been die-hard fans ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been something each generation’s been proud of and had in common. We’ve gone to games for years — some of my earliest memories are at the Coliseum hearing Dick Callahan’s voice. My grandpa especially watched nearly every game he could on TV until he passed this December. If he was still around, I know he’d be madder than he usually got watching what he would say [A’s owner John] Fisher thinks passes for a franchise these days and what Manfred enables in the league.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I helped Dave Kaval and others with their live Q&A sessions they held on our subreddit, and whenever he’d speak to the media for the past few years, the A’s leadership would always stress how they were ‘#RootedInOakland’ and committed to the community, fans, and working to get a deal. After today, it seems the only commitment the organization has is to driving the franchise into the ground …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A’s fans are generally a hardy lot, and range from overly forgiving to very fickle, but I think it’s safe to say that almost everyone is going to be unified on feeling betrayed and hurt on this one. Personally, I don’t know if I’m going to be able to watch the game after this … and it won’t necessarily be as simple as ‘pick another team.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/pquinton99\">Phoebe Quinton\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/fjhabvala\">Farida Jhabvala Romero\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/bwatt\">Brian Watt\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/agonzalez\">Alexander Gonzalez\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Yet, it is clear to me that the A’s have no intention of staying in Oakland and have simply been using this process to try to extract a better deal out of Las Vegas. I am not interested in continuing to play that game — the fans and our residents deserve better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am incredibly proud of what we have accomplished as a City, including securing a fully entitled site and over $375 million in new infrastructure investment that will benefit Oakland and its Port for generations to come. In a time of budget deficits, I refuse to compromise the safety and well-being of our residents. 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But we have been unable to achieve success or make enough progress.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team is 3–16 this season and has been outscored by 86 runs — the worst mark through 19 games since 1899. The average attendance through 12 home games this season is 11,027 for the lowest mark in the majors and less than half of the league average of about 27,800. The A’s haven’t drawn 2 million fans at home since 2014 — their only year reaching the mark since 2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the A’s leave Oakland, the city with a rich sports tradition would have no major pro sports teams, with the NFL’s Raiders having moved to Las Vegas in 2020 and the NBA’s Warriors moving across the bay to San Francisco in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao\"]‘I don’t believe that this city is defined by Major League Baseball. I think that this city is defined by its great people, its great culture …’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know it’s a difficult message for our folks in Oakland,” Kaval said. “Obviously we’re grateful for all the hard work that went into the waterfront. But we have been unable to achieve success or make enough progress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Las Vegas is quickly becoming a sports mecca after years of being considered a pariah because of ties to the gambling industry. With gambling legalized in much of the country, the city now could have a baseball team to join the NHL’s Golden Knights, who began as an expansion team in 2017, and the Raiders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t believe that this city is defined by Major League Baseball. 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"content": "\u003cp>After a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/04/07/1091448541/mlb-opening-day-baseball\">delay\u003c/a> caused by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/03/11/1085979676/major-league-baseballs-lockout-ends-after-both-sides-reach-a-deal\">second-longest strike in MLB history\u003c/a>, baseball has returned today, Friday, to the Bay Area. On Opening Day, the Giants host the Miami Marlins at Oracle Park. The A’s play in Philadelphia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both teams are dealing with major changes this season: The Giants are missing their star catcher Buster Posey, who announced his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13905846/buster-posey-retirement-sf-giants-baseball-mlb\">retirement\u003c/a> last season, while the A’s have traded away several productive players — Chris Bassitt, Matt Olson and Matt Chapman — and beloved manager Bob Melvin, who left to manage the San Diego Padres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11910567\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11910567\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54997_011_KQED_BaseballFanEvent_04062022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A man and Women hold Oakland A's Fan Gear on a sunny day\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54997_011_KQED_BaseballFanEvent_04062022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54997_011_KQED_BaseballFanEvent_04062022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54997_011_KQED_BaseballFanEvent_04062022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54997_011_KQED_BaseballFanEvent_04062022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54997_011_KQED_BaseballFanEvent_04062022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland A’s fans Tom and Joanne Hall hold their memorabilia during a fan event in San Francisco on April 6, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re all a little bit disconcerted because we’ve gotten attached to the players and Melvin,” said Joanne Hall, a longtime A’s fan, on Wednesday during a Giants-A’s joint event outside San Francisco’s Ferry Building to promote Opening Day. “But the A’s have a long history of building a good team, and I think we’re going to be starting a new one.”[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Vida Blue, former A's pitcher\"]‘Teams come and teams go. Hopefully, they can get something resolved, and the A’s can stay in Oakland.’[/pullquote]Standing near her team’s mascot, Stomper the elephant, she addressed the other elephant in the dugout, so to speak: whether yet another Oakland sports team will relocate. The team wants to build a new \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/01/19/oakland-as-waterfront-ballpark-proposal-can-move-forward-after-vote-on-environmental-review/\">waterfront ballpark\u003c/a>, but owners also are checking out options in Las Vegas, where Oakland’s former NFL team, the Raiders, currently resides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11910704\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11910704\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55055_20220318_GiantsOpeningDay-21-7-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two women smile wearing giants gear while posing for a photo outside Giants Stadium\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55055_20220318_GiantsOpeningDay-21-7-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55055_20220318_GiantsOpeningDay-21-7-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55055_20220318_GiantsOpeningDay-21-7-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55055_20220318_GiantsOpeningDay-21-7-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55055_20220318_GiantsOpeningDay-21-7-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nett and London pose for a portrait before going in to watch the Giants’ play on Opening Day on Apr. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards, KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It makes no sense to build a stadium out at the port when we’ve got a perfectly good site at the Coliseum and BART goes right to it. I think a lot of fans feel that way,” she said, holding a copy of “50 Years of Oakland A’s Baseball.” She hoped legendary A’s pitcher Vida Blue would sign it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11910565\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11910565\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54995_007_KQED_BaseballFanEvent_04062022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Former A's Pitcher Vida Blue smiles while sitting on a bench\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Oakland Athletics pitcher Vida Blue during a fan event in San Francisco on April 6, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Blue, who also played for the Giants, appeared at Wednesday’s event. He weighed in on the future of the A’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a big business. Getting traded is part of the business,” he said. “Teams come and teams go. Hopefully, they can get something resolved, and the A’s can stay in Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Relocation can be a touchy subject for many A’s fans. Some tweeted outrage that Wednesday’s event, meant to promote both Bay Area teams, took place in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Hey \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Athletics?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Athletics\u003c/a>… The comments on this tweet are overwhelmingly negative. The Giants haven’t tweeted anything about it. Are they even aware of it? Serious question… Who’s the genius in the FO that thought this was a good idea? \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/I90OiA5Yjx\">https://t.co/I90OiA5Yjx\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— CoachⓋShawn (@shawcochrane) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/shawcochrane/status/1511355413723332614?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 5, 2022\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Hall said she doesn’t mind seeing Stomper far from the Coliseum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We let him go over the bridge once in a while,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Giants fan Robin Shaw pointed out, “Baseball brings out this kind of joy.” He’s excited for the return of baseball — especially after the recent strike and the intense couple of years brought on by COVID, which put a halt on professional sports for a while.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11910705\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11910705\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55047_20220318_GiantsOpeningDay-21-1-qut-800x550.jpg\" alt=\"3 people pose for a selfie outside giants stadium\" width=\"800\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55047_20220318_GiantsOpeningDay-21-1-qut-800x550.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55047_20220318_GiantsOpeningDay-21-1-qut-1020x701.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55047_20220318_GiantsOpeningDay-21-1-qut-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55047_20220318_GiantsOpeningDay-21-1-qut-1536x1055.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55047_20220318_GiantsOpeningDay-21-1-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ketnia Palacios, Angela Valle, and DJ Lando take a selfie together before heading into Oracle Park for the Giants’ Opening Day of the season on Apr. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards, KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Seeing your friends get sick and your elderly friends or relatives die, it affects people,” he said. “Baseball did its darndest to entertain us, and offered us a distraction and gave us hope.”[aside postID=arts_13910698 label=\"More On Oakland A's\"]As for the future of the Giants, which had a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcsports.com/bayarea/giants/giants-clinch-2021-nl-west-title-franchise-record-107th-win\">franchise-record number of wins\u003c/a> last season, Shaw said the team could still sneak in as a wild card with Posey gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a tall order,” he added. “It’s going to be another one of those seasons where we have our own unique sets of trials and tribulations that we’ll have to overcome and that will hopefully steel our resolve.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>The University of San Francisco's highly ranked men's basketball team will play in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncaa.com/march-madness-live/bracket\">NCAA \"March Madness\u003c/a>\" playoffs this month for the first time since 1998. But campus jubilation at the Dons' success on the court is tempered this week by an emerging scandal involving the men's baseball team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, associate baseball coach Troy Nakamura was fired after complaints of wildly inappropriate and sexually graphic language and behavior. Head coach Nino Giarratano was initially reprimanded but allowed to remain. But he, too, was fired on Sunday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/college/article/USF-baseball-coach-fired-after-ex-players-16998516.php\">following a lawsuit filed against Nakamura, Giarratano, USF and the NCAA\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://www.lieffcabraser.com/pdf/USF-NCAA-Complaint-20220311-stamped.pdf\">the 113-page class-action lawsuit\u003c/a> filed on Friday in a federal court in San Francisco, three former baseball players allege that USF knew about the coaches' alleged problematic behavior, and that USF and the NCAA failed to protect the health and safety of student athletes who they say were exposed to an \"intolerable sexualized environment\" that was allowed to continue under Giarratano, who has been at USF for over 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the complaint, the coaches \"created a culture where, in the light of the day, it was 'normal' to see Coach [Nakamura] naked on the field or in a window, swinging his penis in a helicopter fashion while the entire team — and Coach [Giarratano] — watched.\" According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/college/article/Intolerable-sexualized-environment-Ex-USF-16994972.php\">reporting from The San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a>, Nakamura was seen mingling with coaches at a practice last week, nearly two months after he was fired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Julia Morales, USF junior\"]'I think the most surprising thing to us was that it took so long for something to happen. It took, what ... months for someone to actually be fired like the head coach and not just be reprimanded?'[/pullquote]In an interview with KQED, USF President Rev. Paul Fitzgerald said at this point the school is focused on helping players cope with the situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our first concern right now is for the current members of the team,\" Fitzgerald said. \"So we're prioritizing their access to mental health counseling and speaking directly to their parents. Their parents are concerned about their sons and their overall well-being, as are we.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fitzgerald dismissed the notion that Giarratano's firing was prompted by the filing of the class-action lawsuit, and instead pinned it on letting Nakamura attend practice last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The class-action lawsuit was not the reason why we terminated the head coach,\" Fitzgerald said. \"We terminated the head coach because he allowed the former assistant coach [Nakamura] back onto the field. And our former assistant coach had no business being on the field with our athletes, with our coaches.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Elizabeth Fegan, one of the attorneys representing the three former baseball players, isn't buying that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I find it particularly galling that President Fitzgerald is trying to overlook the larger issues of abuse of student-athletes on his watch in recasting why he fired Coach Giarratano,\" she said in a statement to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is nothing more than debate intended to shirk responsibility – I would think he should be more concerned about being transparent about what happened to allow the coaches’ abhorrent behavior to grow and fester within the baseball program.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>USF student Julia Morales, a junior biology major who participates on the track team, told KQED she and her fellow students wonder why it took the school so long to act after receiving complaints about the atmosphere around the baseball team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think the most surprising thing to us was that it took so long for something to happen, or for any information to be put out there,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And now that an article has been published and people are finding out that all of this has happened,\" Morales said, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/college/article/Intolerable-sexualized-environment-Ex-USF-16994972.php\">referencing the Chronicle's reporting\u003c/a>, \"and it took, what ... months later for someone to actually be fired like the head coach and not just be reprimanded? It was concerning that it took this much time and effort to make something happen.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When told of Morales's concerns, Fitzgerald said, \"I'm proud of that student for her moral outrage at the mistreatment of any student by a coach at USF or at any school. So I think her heart and her mind are in exactly the right place.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11908332\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11908332\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/4.21.16-Paul-Fitzgerald-0856-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"profile of Jesuit reverend with cityscape in background\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/4.21.16-Paul-Fitzgerald-0856-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/4.21.16-Paul-Fitzgerald-0856-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/4.21.16-Paul-Fitzgerald-0856-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/4.21.16-Paul-Fitzgerald-0856-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/4.21.16-Paul-Fitzgerald-0856-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/4.21.16-Paul-Fitzgerald-0856-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/4.21.16-Paul-Fitzgerald-0856-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">USF President Rev. 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"content": "\u003cp>It’s almost game time. The 107-win Giants and 106-win Dodgers are gearing up for battle in a best-of-five National League Division Series, starting tonight in the City by the Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s among the fiercest rivalries in professional sports, and tonight is technically the first time the two teams have faced off in the NLDS (although they did play two tiebreaking division series in 1951 and 1962, from both of which the Giants emerged victorious).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a momentous matchup in a decades-old, and often bitter, clash between two of the best teams in baseball. But for Dave Edlund, it’s just another night bobbing on the bay in McCovey Cove outside San Francisco’s Oracle Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCovey Cove Dave, as he’s widely known, will most certainly be in attendance on Friday — as he is for most home games — cutting through the chop atop his kayak, eagerly awaiting the next “splash hit” — when a home run sails outside the park and into the water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Edlund also plucks the occasional, history-adjacent flailing foul balls — he’s not that picky.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the fastest kayak at McCovey Cove, even though I’m probably the oldest guy. 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He started catching splash hits as far back as 2001, he says, but has been a steady presence in the waters here since the Giants World Series win in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And just how many stitched cowhides has he claimed? Edlund proudly rattles off the numbers: 43 splash hits and more than 60 foul balls over nearly 600 games, totaling more than 100 game balls — so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Been a fan of the Giants for over 50 years, but I’m a pretty good kayaker and I love the home run, and the tickets are free. You can come to McCovey Cove and get a home run ball without paying a dime,” he says. “And I’ve done it for a long time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get them, Edlund uses nearly as much strategy as a major league pitcher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He starts by hitting the stats, analyzing past homers that players have belted out of the park and identifying where exactly those balls hit the water — to determine where best to position himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope the ball’s going to come where they’ve hit historically,” Edlund says. But, he adds, “you have to pay attention.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s got that part covered, or rather his ears are covered — with headphones — as he listens to the play-by-play, waiting eagerly for that signature crack of the bat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11891596\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11891596 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/IMG_1711.jpg\" alt='A hand holds a baseball with writing on it that says: \"Hit by LaMonte Wade into McCovey Cove.\" Blurry city landscape with water beyond it.' width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/IMG_1711.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/IMG_1711-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/IMG_1711-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/IMG_1711-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/IMG_1711-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/IMG_1711-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the many home run balls caught by Dave Edlund, known as McCovey Cove Dave. \u003ccite>(Brian Watt/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’m listening to every play, but you do a bunch of things: You shift, you are alert,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edlund only really gets to rest when right-handed batters are up, as the left-handers tend to hit the majority of the homers, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of his water-bound strategies have served him well in snagging balls from historic blasts. 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It’s living population, on the other hand? \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/popest/2010s-total-cities-and-towns.html#tables\">The 2020 census puts the population at 1,792 residents.\u003c/a> In July of this year, I became one of those “aboveground” residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While cutting my hair one day, my barber asked me if I knew of any famous people buried in Colma. It got me wondering, so I called up Michael Svanevik, a local historian and co-author of \u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6325025-city-of-souls\">“City of Souls: San Francisco’s Necropolis at Colma.”\u003c/a> He told me there’s two categories of famous dead folks in Colma: the household names and the people who’ve made a mark on San Francisco in particular.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Find a map of these graves at the bottom of this post.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Joshua Abraham Norton, aka Emperor Norton\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11653321\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 522px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11653321 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/His-Imperial-Majesty-Emperor-Norton-I-portrait-crop-e1519862812657-JJJH.jpg\" alt=\"A black-and-white photo of a man with puffy hair and a puffy beard wearing a Civil War-era cap.\" width=\"522\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/His-Imperial-Majesty-Emperor-Norton-I-portrait-crop-e1519862812657-JJJH.jpg 522w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/His-Imperial-Majesty-Emperor-Norton-I-portrait-crop-e1519862812657-JJJH-160x124.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/His-Imperial-Majesty-Emperor-Norton-I-portrait-crop-e1519862812657-JJJH-240x186.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/His-Imperial-Majesty-Emperor-Norton-I-portrait-crop-e1519862812657-JJJH-375x291.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/His-Imperial-Majesty-Emperor-Norton-I-portrait-crop-e1519862812657-JJJH-520x403.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 522px) 100vw, 522px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joshua Abraham Norton, better known as San Francisco’s Emperor Norton. \u003ccite>(Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Joshua Abraham Norton arrived in San Francisco just before he turned 30. He had done business in South Africa before immigrating and started investing in commodities when he arrived in San Francisco. He was quite wealthy and influential during the early years of the Gold Rush. But a bad investment and subsequent legal battles left him bankrupt at the age of 38. Norton went quiet for a time, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11652705/americas-emperor-san-franciscos-treasure-who-was-emperor-norton\">reemerged on the scene by proclaiming himself to be the first emperor of the United States\u003c/a> in San Francisco’s Daily Evening Bulletin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He issued many proclamations after that, many of them quite progressive for his time. He was a well-known character around town, so when he collapsed on the street and died of a suspected stroke, thousands of people attended his funeral. By then he was a poor man, but his old friends in the business community interceded and paid for his burial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since his death more than 140 years ago, Emperor Norton has become a beloved San Francisco icon. Respected for his panache and tolerant views, he has captured the imaginations of generations of San Franciscans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>His grave is at Woodlawn Memorial Park Cemetery.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Francis Joseph “Lefty” O’Doul\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11891301\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 381px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11891301\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Lefty-odoul.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white photo of a man with black baseball cap looking into the distance.\" width=\"381\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Lefty-odoul.jpg 381w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Lefty-odoul-160x235.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 381px) 100vw, 381px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo of Lefty O’Doul, a San Francisco baseball icon. \u003ccite>(Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Born in the Bayview-Hunter’s Point neighborhood of San Francisco in 1897, \u003ca href=\"https://leftyodoulsabr.com/chapter-information/about-lefty-odoul/#:~:text=He%20ended%20his%20career%20in,in%2011%20major%20league%20seasons.\">Joseph “Lefty” O’Doul was known for his pitching and hitting\u003c/a> while playing baseball for the San Francisco Seals, a Pacific Coast League team. Eventually he was drafted into the major league and moved to the East Coast. O’Doul spent time playing for the New York Giants, Brooklyn Dodgers, Phillies and Yankees throughout the 1920s and ‘30s. In 1935, O’Doul took a job managing the San Francisco Seals, solidifying his status as a hometown hero. He was also a baseball ambassador to Japan both before and after World War II. He was inducted into both the U.S. and Japanese Halls of Fame. Look for Lefty’s name on the Oracle Park entrance near the Third Street drawbridge, which is also named after O’Doul.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>O’Doul is buried at Cypress Lawn Memorial Park.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Joe DiMaggio\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Born in Martinez and raised in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood, Joe DiMaggio is a celebrated baseball player known for his hitting. He started his career as a player with the San Francisco Seals. In 1935, \u003ca href=\"https://www.joedimaggio.com/the-man/childhood/\">DiMaggio became the Pacific Coast League MVP\u003c/a> after helping the Seals win the team’s ninth consecutive championship. This was the same time that “Lefty” O’Doul was managing the team. DiMaggio went on to play professionally for the New York Yankees, becoming a household name after the team’s 56-game winning streak. He’s also known for his marriage to film star Marilyn Monroe — the couple were even married at San Francisco City Hall — although the marriage lasted less than a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>DiMaggio is buried in Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Hearst family (George, Phoebe and William Randolph)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Many in the Hearst family have achieved fame and fortune, starting with George, a miner who made smart investments in gold, silver and copper mines. He acquired large swaths of land in California and the West, and soon became a millionaire. George bought The San Francisco Examiner in 1880 and then went on to serve as a U.S. senator. George’s wife, Phoebe Apperson Hearst, used the family’s wealth to fund local philanthropic projects. \u003ca href=\"https://www.ucberkeleyfoundation.org/history-mission/\">She put up a big portion of the money that started the University of California, Berkeley.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>George and Phoebe’s son, William Randolph, took over ownership of The San Francisco Examiner from his father. He built the paper into a successful enterprise and then expanded into the East Coast media market when he purchased The New York Daily Journal. Today, Hearst Communications owns more than 360 businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Hearst family is buried in a mausoleum in Cypress Lawn Memorial Park that looks like part of the Acropolis in Athens, Greece, and is made entirely of marble.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Local people history forgot\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While there’s at least a chance you’ve heard of Joe DiMaggio or William Randolph Hearst, chances are you may not have heard of some other local legends buried in Colma. They may not be as famous nationally, but they made a mark locally.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Lincoln Beachey\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11891302\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11891302\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Lincoln_Beachey_at_Grant_Park_in_1911.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white photo of a man sitting on an early model airplane.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"818\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Lincoln_Beachey_at_Grant_Park_in_1911.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Lincoln_Beachey_at_Grant_Park_in_1911-800x639.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Lincoln_Beachey_at_Grant_Park_in_1911-1020x815.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Lincoln_Beachey_at_Grant_Park_in_1911-160x128.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lincoln Beachey was a famous stunt pilot in his day. \u003ccite>(Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Born in San Francisco in 1887, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nationalaviation.org/our-enshrinees/beachey-lincoln/\">Beachey was a well-known stunt pilot\u003c/a>. He was best known for a trick called the “suicide dive,” in which he would fly as high as he could, turn off his engine and then hurtle toward the ground. Just before impact, he would switch the engine back on and pull out of the dive. The trick gave crowds a thrill. He performed it at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915 in front of thousands of fans. Sadly, this would be his last attempt. When Beachy went to restart the motor after his free fall it malfunctioned and he crashed to his death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Beachy is buried at Cypress Lawn Memorial Park. Look for a grave with a biplane engraved on it.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The dual: U.S. Senator David C. Broderick\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When you have beef with someone, hopefully you settle it peacefully. Back in the day, you might have settled it with guns. Dueling was illegal in San Francisco in 1859, so \u003ca href=\"https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=The_Duel\">when U.S. Senator David C. Broderick and California Supreme Court Justice David S. Terry had an argument, they took it over the San Mateo County line\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local historian Svanevik says, “This duel was a personal thing.” It may have been a personal dislike, but it also was political. The two men were members of opposite political parties and regularly argued about the issue of slavery, then a hotly debated topic throughout the country. Both men had written harsh things about one another in the press, and their arguments were highly publicized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The opponents met at Lake Merced on September 13, 1859, along with a surgeon and witnesses. 3 … 2 … 1 … boom! Terry fired a fatal bullet, puncturing Broderick’s lung. The senator would die three days later and be buried in Lone Mountain Cemetery in San Francisco under a huge monument. When the city of San Francisco dug up its buried bodies, Broderick was transferred to Cypress Lawn Memorial Park in Colma. There’s a monument marking \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/Broderick-Terry+Duel+Site/@37.7080262,-122.4839742,15z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0xc893cb70461ff213!8m2!3d37.7080262!4d-122.4839742\">the site of the duel near Lake Merced\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Arthur Brown\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11891304\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11891304\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/cityhall.jpg\" alt=\"Rainbow flags fly in front of an impressive white stone building with a dome.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/cityhall.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/cityhall-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/cityhall-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/cityhall-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/cityhall-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arthur Brown designed San Francisco City Hall. \u003ccite>(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some of the Bay Area’s most iconic buildings are the work of architect, and local notable, Arthur Brown. San Francisco City Hall, the War Memorial Opera House, Berkeley City Hall and Hoover Tower at Stanford all are his designs. He also was involved with designing Coit Tower. Svanevik calls Brown “the architect that designed San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Brown is buried in Cypress Lawn Memorial Park.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Betty Ong\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Born and raised in San Francisco’s Chinatown, \u003ca href=\"https://www.911memorial.org/connect/blog/remembering-911-hero-flight-attendant-betty-ong\">Betty Ong was a flight attendant on American Airlines Flight 11\u003c/a>, the first plane to be hijacked on September 11, 2001. She became a national hero after alerting authorities about what was going on, leading the Federal Aviation Administration to close the national airspace. The information she provided also helped the FBI in their investigation of the attacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Ong’s body was never found, but her family has memorialized her at Cypress Lawn Memorial Park.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://www.google.com/maps/d/embed?mid=1v_xNKp8QfkRWl62v8w6EOB4UeZkoouhY\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Cruise south of Daly City on El Camino Real and at some point you’ll notice a shift from business and apartment complexes to florists and cemeteries. You’ve entered the town of Colma, California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early 1920s, Colma’s land was set aside specifically for cemeteries. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10779164/why-are-so-many-dead-people-in-colma-and-so-few-in-san-francisco\">Over 100,000 bodies were exhumed and moved there\u003c/a> after the city of San Francisco evicted their dead to make room for more housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These days, there are more than a million dead buried in Colma. It’s living population, on the other hand? \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/popest/2010s-total-cities-and-towns.html#tables\">The 2020 census puts the population at 1,792 residents.\u003c/a> In July of this year, I became one of those “aboveground” residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While cutting my hair one day, my barber asked me if I knew of any famous people buried in Colma. It got me wondering, so I called up Michael Svanevik, a local historian and co-author of \u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6325025-city-of-souls\">“City of Souls: San Francisco’s Necropolis at Colma.”\u003c/a> He told me there’s two categories of famous dead folks in Colma: the household names and the people who’ve made a mark on San Francisco in particular.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Find a map of these graves at the bottom of this post.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Joshua Abraham Norton, aka Emperor Norton\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11653321\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 522px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11653321 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/His-Imperial-Majesty-Emperor-Norton-I-portrait-crop-e1519862812657-JJJH.jpg\" alt=\"A black-and-white photo of a man with puffy hair and a puffy beard wearing a Civil War-era cap.\" width=\"522\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/His-Imperial-Majesty-Emperor-Norton-I-portrait-crop-e1519862812657-JJJH.jpg 522w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/His-Imperial-Majesty-Emperor-Norton-I-portrait-crop-e1519862812657-JJJH-160x124.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/His-Imperial-Majesty-Emperor-Norton-I-portrait-crop-e1519862812657-JJJH-240x186.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/His-Imperial-Majesty-Emperor-Norton-I-portrait-crop-e1519862812657-JJJH-375x291.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/His-Imperial-Majesty-Emperor-Norton-I-portrait-crop-e1519862812657-JJJH-520x403.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 522px) 100vw, 522px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joshua Abraham Norton, better known as San Francisco’s Emperor Norton. \u003ccite>(Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Joshua Abraham Norton arrived in San Francisco just before he turned 30. He had done business in South Africa before immigrating and started investing in commodities when he arrived in San Francisco. He was quite wealthy and influential during the early years of the Gold Rush. But a bad investment and subsequent legal battles left him bankrupt at the age of 38. Norton went quiet for a time, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11652705/americas-emperor-san-franciscos-treasure-who-was-emperor-norton\">reemerged on the scene by proclaiming himself to be the first emperor of the United States\u003c/a> in San Francisco’s Daily Evening Bulletin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He issued many proclamations after that, many of them quite progressive for his time. He was a well-known character around town, so when he collapsed on the street and died of a suspected stroke, thousands of people attended his funeral. By then he was a poor man, but his old friends in the business community interceded and paid for his burial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since his death more than 140 years ago, Emperor Norton has become a beloved San Francisco icon. Respected for his panache and tolerant views, he has captured the imaginations of generations of San Franciscans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>His grave is at Woodlawn Memorial Park Cemetery.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Francis Joseph “Lefty” O’Doul\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11891301\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 381px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11891301\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Lefty-odoul.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white photo of a man with black baseball cap looking into the distance.\" width=\"381\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Lefty-odoul.jpg 381w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Lefty-odoul-160x235.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 381px) 100vw, 381px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo of Lefty O’Doul, a San Francisco baseball icon. \u003ccite>(Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Born in the Bayview-Hunter’s Point neighborhood of San Francisco in 1897, \u003ca href=\"https://leftyodoulsabr.com/chapter-information/about-lefty-odoul/#:~:text=He%20ended%20his%20career%20in,in%2011%20major%20league%20seasons.\">Joseph “Lefty” O’Doul was known for his pitching and hitting\u003c/a> while playing baseball for the San Francisco Seals, a Pacific Coast League team. Eventually he was drafted into the major league and moved to the East Coast. O’Doul spent time playing for the New York Giants, Brooklyn Dodgers, Phillies and Yankees throughout the 1920s and ‘30s. In 1935, O’Doul took a job managing the San Francisco Seals, solidifying his status as a hometown hero. He was also a baseball ambassador to Japan both before and after World War II. He was inducted into both the U.S. and Japanese Halls of Fame. Look for Lefty’s name on the Oracle Park entrance near the Third Street drawbridge, which is also named after O’Doul.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>O’Doul is buried at Cypress Lawn Memorial Park.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Joe DiMaggio\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Born in Martinez and raised in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood, Joe DiMaggio is a celebrated baseball player known for his hitting. He started his career as a player with the San Francisco Seals. In 1935, \u003ca href=\"https://www.joedimaggio.com/the-man/childhood/\">DiMaggio became the Pacific Coast League MVP\u003c/a> after helping the Seals win the team’s ninth consecutive championship. This was the same time that “Lefty” O’Doul was managing the team. DiMaggio went on to play professionally for the New York Yankees, becoming a household name after the team’s 56-game winning streak. He’s also known for his marriage to film star Marilyn Monroe — the couple were even married at San Francisco City Hall — although the marriage lasted less than a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>DiMaggio is buried in Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Hearst family (George, Phoebe and William Randolph)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Many in the Hearst family have achieved fame and fortune, starting with George, a miner who made smart investments in gold, silver and copper mines. He acquired large swaths of land in California and the West, and soon became a millionaire. George bought The San Francisco Examiner in 1880 and then went on to serve as a U.S. senator. George’s wife, Phoebe Apperson Hearst, used the family’s wealth to fund local philanthropic projects. \u003ca href=\"https://www.ucberkeleyfoundation.org/history-mission/\">She put up a big portion of the money that started the University of California, Berkeley.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>George and Phoebe’s son, William Randolph, took over ownership of The San Francisco Examiner from his father. He built the paper into a successful enterprise and then expanded into the East Coast media market when he purchased The New York Daily Journal. Today, Hearst Communications owns more than 360 businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Hearst family is buried in a mausoleum in Cypress Lawn Memorial Park that looks like part of the Acropolis in Athens, Greece, and is made entirely of marble.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Local people history forgot\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While there’s at least a chance you’ve heard of Joe DiMaggio or William Randolph Hearst, chances are you may not have heard of some other local legends buried in Colma. They may not be as famous nationally, but they made a mark locally.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Lincoln Beachey\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11891302\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11891302\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Lincoln_Beachey_at_Grant_Park_in_1911.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white photo of a man sitting on an early model airplane.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"818\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Lincoln_Beachey_at_Grant_Park_in_1911.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Lincoln_Beachey_at_Grant_Park_in_1911-800x639.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Lincoln_Beachey_at_Grant_Park_in_1911-1020x815.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Lincoln_Beachey_at_Grant_Park_in_1911-160x128.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lincoln Beachey was a famous stunt pilot in his day. \u003ccite>(Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Born in San Francisco in 1887, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nationalaviation.org/our-enshrinees/beachey-lincoln/\">Beachey was a well-known stunt pilot\u003c/a>. He was best known for a trick called the “suicide dive,” in which he would fly as high as he could, turn off his engine and then hurtle toward the ground. Just before impact, he would switch the engine back on and pull out of the dive. The trick gave crowds a thrill. He performed it at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915 in front of thousands of fans. Sadly, this would be his last attempt. When Beachy went to restart the motor after his free fall it malfunctioned and he crashed to his death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Beachy is buried at Cypress Lawn Memorial Park. Look for a grave with a biplane engraved on it.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The dual: U.S. Senator David C. Broderick\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When you have beef with someone, hopefully you settle it peacefully. Back in the day, you might have settled it with guns. Dueling was illegal in San Francisco in 1859, so \u003ca href=\"https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=The_Duel\">when U.S. Senator David C. 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"content": "\u003cp>Following hours of pleas from the public to keep the A's in Oakland, the Oakland City Council on Tuesday approved a non-binding financial plan for a new $12 billion waterfront stadium and village at Howard Terminal near Jack London Square.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the A's were quick to criticize the amended plan, leaving it unclear how much longer the team is willing to negotiate with the city before packing up and moving elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Dan Kalb, Oakland City Councilmember\"]'If I vote for this today, I’m going to be holding my nose and probably going to the bathroom, throwing up afterwards. I'm not very happy.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The current term sheet as it's constructed and its current language is not a business partnership that works for us,” Oakland Athletics President Dave Kaval said during the virtual meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the A's will take a close look at the city's term sheet, but was disappointed it differed so much from the term sheet the team submitted in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a departure from the A’s proposal, the new plan would require 35% of the project’s housing units be affordable, establish additional environmental protections and tenant anti-displacement safeguards, and include a community benefits fund to support neighborhoods in Chinatown and West Oakland impacted by the development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would also create a single large tax district — rather than the two proposed by the team — to generate additional revenue for infrastructure costs, and require the team to stay in the city for at least 25 years after playing its first game at the new stadium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To vote on something we have not been privy to and not had time to digest is a difficult thing for us,\" Kaval said. \"It’s hard to understand how that is a path forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even some of the six councilmembers who approved the deal expressed serious misgivings about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I will say this, if I vote for this today, I’m going to be holding my nose and probably going to the bathroom, throwing up afterwards. I'm not very happy,\" said Councilmember Dan Kalb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the plan included too many concessions to the team, including not requiring them to contribute to the estimated $352 million in off-site infrastructure and transportation costs, or help pay for the development of most planned affordable housing units. But approving it, he added, would at least \"move the negotiations forward\" and increase the odds of the team remaining in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And I want to be open to that, even though I have reservations about this site and some skepticism about whether it's actually going to happen or not,\" Kalb said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"oakland-as\"]The approved term sheet allows both parties to continue negotiating, with no set deadline, although pressure to make a deal is mounting quickly after years of often tense negotiations between the team and the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The A's recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11873231/mlb-tells-oakland-athletics-to-explore-relocation-if-no-new-ballpark\">received permission from Major League Baseball to start looking at other markets\u003c/a> if a deal with Oakland can't be reached, and have already met with officials in Las Vegas. Failing an agreement with the city, they would be the third professional sports team to leave Oakland since 2019 — following the departure of the Warriors and the Raiders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the meeting, Councilmember Carroll Fife, who represents the district where the proposed development would be, voiced her frustration with the A's, following Kaval's initial rejection of the proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm not exactly sure why we're even here today,\" said Fife, who ultimately abstained from voting. \"If the A's are not happy with what was produced today and are still talking about leaving — after the city has bent over backwards and provided some of their best work in the interest of Oakland residents and come up with all of these concessions, even about how these wealthy owners don't have to pay for off-site infrastructure — I don't know where we go from here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed project includes a privately financed $1 billion 35,000-seat ballpark at Howard Terminal, along with a village surrounding the stadium that the city says will be paid for through regional, state and federal funds. The development would include 3,000 housing units, over 1 million square feet of commercial and retail space, hotel rooms, an indoor performance venue and 18 acres of open space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing at the windy waterfront site of the proposed mega-development, Mayor Libby Schaaf on Wednesday morning championed the new plan, calling it a win-win for the city and team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/LibbySchaaf/status/1417928479555735555\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What the City Council approved yesterday is not just one of the most iconic ballparks that the world will ever see, but an entire, beautiful community-serving ballpark district,\" Schaaf said. \"A new neighborhood, with amazing union jobs, public parks, affordable housing and safety improvements.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also promised the plan would create significant tax revenue, ensuring the project's financial viability, unlike past sports deals gone bad; Oakland is still paying off the bonds that financed the remodeling of the Coliseum for the Raiders' return in 1995.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are doing everything within our power to move this process along in a way that is not just great for the A’s and our A’s fans and the community, but also responsible to the taxpayers,\" she said. \"We are never going to do a Raiders deal again.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team’s lease at the aging Oakland Coliseum in East Oakland runs through 2024. 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