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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 1:56 p.m. Tuesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>WEST SACRAMENTO — Every year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033938/as-welcomed-by-thousands-for-home-opener-in-west-sacramento\">opening day\u003c/a> brings baseball fans the joy of reuniting with their team after a long winter and the renewed hope of a fresh season. One like this, however, doesn’t happen very often.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the capital region and beyond, fans streamed into Sutter Health Park in West Sacramento on Monday night to see the Athletics’ home opener — the first of what’s expected to be a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982386/what-the-as-temporary-move-to-sacramento-means-for-fans\">three-season stay\u003c/a> at the minor league ballpark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A line had already formed three hours before first pitch, and an audible cheer rang out as the gates opened for the sold-out matchup with the Chicago Cubs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I grew up 20 minutes from the stadium that we’re playing at tonight, so it’s pretty surreal, and I couldn’t miss it,” said John Metz, a lifelong A’s fan who was raised in Elk Grove and Tracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This time, he flew in from his home in Seattle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ The drums, Stomper fun zones, being a little kid running the bases, Moneyball teams, all of it. I love it,” Metz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033964\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12033964 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_361-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_361-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_361-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_361-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_361-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_361-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_361-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Tower Bridge is illuminated in the background during the Oakland A’s season home opener at Sutter Health Park in West Sacramento on March 31, 2025. \u003ccite>(Andri Tambunan for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Katie White said she drove from South Lake Tahoe in a snowstorm to make it to the game with her husband and 3-year-old daughter. She empathized with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/liveblog/lastoaklandasgame\">A’s fans from the Bay Area who are upset about the team’s move\u003c/a>, but like many here, she just wanted to enjoy opening day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we can only really take the opportunity that we’ve been given here and try and keep supporting them wherever they’re moving through as a team,” White said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The A’s are set to play in West Sacramento for at least the next three seasons, while the team builds a $1.75 billion, 33,000-seat stadium in Las Vegas.[aside postID=news_12033094 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250327_As-Vendor-Fund_DMB_00007-1020x680.jpg']Construction of the proposed stadium \u003ca href=\"https://www.mlb.com/news/athletics-las-vegas-ballpark-agreements-approved\">gained momentum in December\u003c/a>, after the Las Vegas Stadium Authority approved the lease, non-relocation, development and community benefits agreements for the project. The team expects to break ground this spring, with the hopes of having its new home ready for the 2028 season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, the A’s will share a home at Sutter Health Park with the Giants’ Triple-A affiliate, the Sacramento River Cats. With a maximum capacity of just above 14,000 — a far cry from the Oakland Coliseum’s 63,000 — there’s no mistaking this for a major league ballpark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of outfield bleachers, there’s a lawn area where people can lie out on blankets or bring their own folding chairs. Picnic tables pepper other parts of the stadium. And the smaller venue means fans are close to the action — children have a great chance of enticing a player to toss them a ball during warmups, and from the lawn, it wouldn’t be difficult to carry on a conversation with the bullpen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the excitement of a new home opener, some of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13955419/oakland-as-athletics-booker-ruiz-wristbandgate\">fan protests\u003c/a> that became a hallmark of the A’s last season in Oakland continued. Chants of “Sell the team!” rang out during the game, which started badly for the A’s and only got worse in an 18-3 blowout loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033952\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12033952 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_135-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_135-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_135-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_135-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_135-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_135-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_135-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caty Hung poses for a portrait during the Oakland A’s season home opener at Sutter Health Park in West Sacramento on March 31, 2025. \u003ccite>(Andri Tambunan for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Caty Hung drove up from the Bay Area to cheer on the team but wore a shirt that said, “I’d rather be at the Oakland Coliseum.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I love the players, and I love this team, but I don’t love the ownership and the way that this club has been managed,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hung was born in November 2001, and five months later, her parents brought her to opening day at the Coliseum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I thought I was going to raise my kids at the Coliseum, too,” Hung said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033953\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033953\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_136-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_136-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_136-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_136-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_136-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_136-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_136-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Baseball fans anticipate to catch a foul ball as the Chicago Cubs warm up before the playing against the Oakland A’s at their season home opener at Sutter Health Park in West Sacramento on March 31, 2025. \u003ccite>(Andri Tambunan for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now, she’s wrestling with what it means to be an A’s fan when the team no longer represents her hometown. She’s preparing for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12004485/oakland-as-athletics-leaving-last-games\">another round of heartbreak\u003c/a> when the team heads to Las Vegas and feels the pain that Sacramento-area fans may soon experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I think it’s awesome that the Sactown people are excited about this, but they’re going to go through the same thing,” Hung said. “They’re probably going to get attached to our guys for three years, and then they’re going to be ripped out from under the rug.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move to West Sacramento — and, ultimately, Las Vegas — has been a long time in the making.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2023, the 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 binding agreement to purchase land for a ballpark in Las Vegas\u003c/a>, ending its years-long search for a new stadium that saw ideas floated for Fremont, San José and the Howard Terminal site at the Port of Oakland. That year, then-Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao accused the team of “using the city of Oakland as leverage” to get a better deal on a stadium in Las Vegas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033945\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033945\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_44-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_44-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_44-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_44-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_44-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_44-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_44-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mel Switzer poses for a portrait before the start of the Oakland A’s season home opener at Sutter Health Park in West Sacramento on March 31, 2025. \u003ccite>(Andri Tambunan for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lovingly dubbed “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12006567/photos-fans-flood-coliseum-to-bid-emotional-farewell-at-as-last-game-in-oakland\">Baseball’s Last Dive Bar\u003c/a>,” the no-frills, brutalist Coliseum had played home to the A’s since 1968. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I grew up 20 minutes from the stadium that we’re playing at tonight, so it’s pretty surreal, and I couldn’t miss it,” said John Metz, a lifelong A’s fan who was raised in Elk Grove and Tracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This time, he flew in from his home in Seattle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ The drums, Stomper fun zones, being a little kid running the bases, Moneyball teams, all of it. I love it,” Metz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033964\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12033964 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_361-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_361-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_361-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_361-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_361-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_361-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_361-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Tower Bridge is illuminated in the background during the Oakland A’s season home opener at Sutter Health Park in West Sacramento on March 31, 2025. \u003ccite>(Andri Tambunan for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Katie White said she drove from South Lake Tahoe in a snowstorm to make it to the game with her husband and 3-year-old daughter. She empathized with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/liveblog/lastoaklandasgame\">A’s fans from the Bay Area who are upset about the team’s move\u003c/a>, but like many here, she just wanted to enjoy opening day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we can only really take the opportunity that we’ve been given here and try and keep supporting them wherever they’re moving through as a team,” White said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The A’s are set to play in West Sacramento for at least the next three seasons, while the team builds a $1.75 billion, 33,000-seat stadium in Las Vegas.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Construction of the proposed stadium \u003ca href=\"https://www.mlb.com/news/athletics-las-vegas-ballpark-agreements-approved\">gained momentum in December\u003c/a>, after the Las Vegas Stadium Authority approved the lease, non-relocation, development and community benefits agreements for the project. The team expects to break ground this spring, with the hopes of having its new home ready for the 2028 season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, the A’s will share a home at Sutter Health Park with the Giants’ Triple-A affiliate, the Sacramento River Cats. With a maximum capacity of just above 14,000 — a far cry from the Oakland Coliseum’s 63,000 — there’s no mistaking this for a major league ballpark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of outfield bleachers, there’s a lawn area where people can lie out on blankets or bring their own folding chairs. Picnic tables pepper other parts of the stadium. And the smaller venue means fans are close to the action — children have a great chance of enticing a player to toss them a ball during warmups, and from the lawn, it wouldn’t be difficult to carry on a conversation with the bullpen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the excitement of a new home opener, some of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13955419/oakland-as-athletics-booker-ruiz-wristbandgate\">fan protests\u003c/a> that became a hallmark of the A’s last season in Oakland continued. Chants of “Sell the team!” rang out during the game, which started badly for the A’s and only got worse in an 18-3 blowout loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033952\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12033952 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_135-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_135-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_135-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_135-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_135-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_135-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_135-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caty Hung poses for a portrait during the Oakland A’s season home opener at Sutter Health Park in West Sacramento on March 31, 2025. \u003ccite>(Andri Tambunan for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Caty Hung drove up from the Bay Area to cheer on the team but wore a shirt that said, “I’d rather be at the Oakland Coliseum.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I love the players, and I love this team, but I don’t love the ownership and the way that this club has been managed,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hung was born in November 2001, and five months later, her parents brought her to opening day at the Coliseum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I thought I was going to raise my kids at the Coliseum, too,” Hung said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033953\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033953\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_136-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_136-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_136-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_136-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_136-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_136-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_136-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Baseball fans anticipate to catch a foul ball as the Chicago Cubs warm up before the playing against the Oakland A’s at their season home opener at Sutter Health Park in West Sacramento on March 31, 2025. \u003ccite>(Andri Tambunan for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now, she’s wrestling with what it means to be an A’s fan when the team no longer represents her hometown. She’s preparing for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12004485/oakland-as-athletics-leaving-last-games\">another round of heartbreak\u003c/a> when the team heads to Las Vegas and feels the pain that Sacramento-area fans may soon experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I think it’s awesome that the Sactown people are excited about this, but they’re going to go through the same thing,” Hung said. “They’re probably going to get attached to our guys for three years, and then they’re going to be ripped out from under the rug.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move to West Sacramento — and, ultimately, Las Vegas — has been a long time in the making.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2023, the 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 binding agreement to purchase land for a ballpark in Las Vegas\u003c/a>, ending its years-long search for a new stadium that saw ideas floated for Fremont, San José and the Howard Terminal site at the Port of Oakland. That year, then-Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao accused the team of “using the city of Oakland as leverage” to get a better deal on a stadium in Las Vegas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033945\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033945\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_44-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_44-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_44-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_44-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_44-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_44-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_44-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mel Switzer poses for a portrait before the start of the Oakland A’s season home opener at Sutter Health Park in West Sacramento on March 31, 2025. \u003ccite>(Andri Tambunan for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lovingly dubbed “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12006567/photos-fans-flood-coliseum-to-bid-emotional-farewell-at-as-last-game-in-oakland\">Baseball’s Last Dive Bar\u003c/a>,” the no-frills, brutalist Coliseum had played home to the A’s since 1968. Despite the lack of flashy aesthetics, the team awarded its fans many memorable moments, including winning the World Series three years in a row, from 1972 to 1974, and showcasing some of the greats in baseball, including the “Man of Steal” \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12006231/how-oakland-style-empowered-as-great-rickey-henderson-and-other-athletes\">Rickey Henderson\u003c/a>, the all-time record holder for most stolen bases in a career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Monday’s game, some Sacramento area fans expressed hope that, against all odds, the A’s would stay in West Sacramento to make more memories here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got to make sure that they stay here in Sacramento area because moving to Las Vegas is a bad idea,” said Mel Switzer, who was also at the A’s opening day at the Coliseum in 1968 but now lives outside Sacramento in Lincoln. “I think it’s a great fit. The only thing [A’s owner John Fisher] has to do is sell the team to the right owner. It could happen. It really could.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many Bay Area A’s fans have a less rosy outlook. After being burned by the team once, they have accepted that the team is set to leave the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, it is what it is,” said Ron Coffee Jr. of Vacaville, who said he cried when the A’s played their last game at the Coliseum. “It’s sad, but I’ll still be an A’s fan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A correction was made to this story at 1:56 p.m., April 1, 2025, to update the spelling of Caty Hung’s name. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When the A’s packed their bags and left the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland-coliseum\">Oakland Coliseum\u003c/a> for good last September, longtime ballpark workers like Erica Quinonez looked forward to a token of appreciation from the team. The A’s had created a $1 million “Oakland Coliseum Vendor Assistance Fund”, intended to help alleviate the financial hardship caused by the team’s departure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was like, ‘Yes! This is going to help me move,” said Quinonez, a former supervisor for Allied Universal, which provided security services during A’s games at the Coliseum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But her excitement quickly turned to despair and anger when her application was denied. It felt like a slap in the face, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I could have used that money. It really could have helped,” said Quinonez, who said the loss of income resulting from professional sports teams — like the A’s and Raiders — leaving Oakland made her decide to move away from the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just had a baby 11 months ago,” Quinonez said. “When we didn’t get the money, I was like, ‘Oh man, what are we going to do now?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quinonez is one of four workers who told KQED they were upset by their experience applying to the fund. They described a variety of outcomes ranging from outright rejection of their application, to lack of a response, to disappointment over paltry amounts of cash. For some, the financial hardship will extend into the upcoming baseball season, as the A’s home opener is set for Monday at Sutter Health Park in West Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033408\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033408\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250327_As-Vendor-Fund_DMB_00042.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250327_As-Vendor-Fund_DMB_00042.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250327_As-Vendor-Fund_DMB_00042-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250327_As-Vendor-Fund_DMB_00042-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250327_As-Vendor-Fund_DMB_00042-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250327_As-Vendor-Fund_DMB_00042-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250327_As-Vendor-Fund_DMB_00042-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julie Silva, a member of Teamsters Local 853, shows off her lanyard with pins and memorabilia from her time working for the Oakland A’s. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The application and eligibility requirements for the Oakland Coliseum Vendor Assistance Fund appeared to be straightforward. According to a letter sent to workers, employees of third-party vendors — Aramark, Allied Universal, ASM, Fanatics and ProPark — had two and a half months to apply online to the fund, which would disburse a payout of between $250 and $2,500 in the form of a taxable grant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Applicants had to be employed by one of the five vendors, have provided gameday services at the Oakland Coliseum and have worked a minimum number of hours between the 2023 and 2024 seasons. Relief Fund Services Group, a company that aims to streamline aid disbursement, administered the website where workers applied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quinonez told KQED she worked security for Allied Universal at the Coliseum “every game she could” from 2017 to 2024. After she applied for the fund, she found out she was denied for reasons not listed in the application.[aside postID=news_12032881 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250322_Roots_4275_qed-1020x680.jpg']An email sent to Quinonez from Oakland A’s People Operations and obtained by KQED stated the following: “In order to be eligible for the grant, employees needed to be regularly stationed at the Oakland branch, not Union City or Chase Center.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because Quinonez worked out of Allied Universal’s Union City office, not the Oakland branch, she was denied funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When KQED reached out to the A’s for comment, a spokesperson initially requested “additional details” but, after multiple follow-up messages, stopped responding to emails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Relief Fund Services Group did not respond to interview requests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two other employees of Allied Universal who worked out of the Union City branch said they also applied for the Vendor Assistance Fund but did not hear back and never received any money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ There was a lot of us that worked every single game they let us work, and it wasn’t acknowledged in any way, shape or form,” said one worker, who is currently employed by Allied Universal and asked not to be named due to concerns of professional repercussions. The employee estimated that a few dozen other workers could have also been denied funds because they were based in Union City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006733\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006733\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-23-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-23-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-23-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-23-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-23-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-23-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-23-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A fan holds a sign at the A’s last home game at the Oakland Coliseum in Oakland on Sept. 26, 2024.. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Even if it was $500, just something to acknowledge our hard work there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allied Universal did not respond to interview requests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between 400 and 450 security officers represented by SEIU-USWW worked at the Coliseum and were employed by Allied Universal, according to Stephen Boardman, communications director for the union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any SEIU-USWW member who worked at the Coliseum and feels they were wrongly denied this benefit should contact the union right away,” Boardman said in an email to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bob Rosenthal, who worked at the Coliseum since the first A’s game there in 1968, most recently as a merchandise vendor at a fan store for the concessionaire Fanatics, applied to the fund and received money.[aside postID=news_12030157 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240818_LastBoB_GC-53_qed-1020x680.jpg']Rosenthal declined to say how much he was awarded but said it “ wasn’t a ton of money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It did help as far as putting food on the table because obviously I was unemployed at the time,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosenthal is a member of Teamsters Local 853, which represented about 60 Coliseum vendors last baseball season. He said he hadn’t heard of anyone else being denied by the fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody I’m close to, that I work with, all got theirs,” he added. “This is news to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Julie Silva, another member of Teamsters Local 853 who worked for the A’s as an employee of Aramark and Fanatics over 15 years doing retail and warehouse work, received $1,500 from the fund but was offended by the lack of support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I really felt like they could have done better, especially for a lot of the people that have been there since the stadium opened,” Silva said. “It wasn’t even a hundred dollars for every year that I worked there, and I just felt like that was kind of cheap.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947217\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947217\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS54992_005_KQED_BaseballFanEvent_04062022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An Oakland A's baseball fan holds a special green and yellow book that chronicles 50 years of the team. 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And I think that’s to be expected a little bit. But like anything where you might be feeling grief or sadness, it’s kind of come in waves and unexpected moments. And earlier in the game, I got a chance to speak with one of our colleagues, Brian Watt, and we were speaking about my dad and how much I’m connected to the A’s through him and his memory. And he passed away last October. It’s just been kind of a whirlwind of a day emotionally. But that was kind of to be expected. I just don’t know when it’s going to arrive and when it’s going to when it’s going to subside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Jeironemo Thomas \u003c/strong>[00:13:01] And then I think it’s just tough because a lot of people, when they think of the Bay Area, it’s very specifically San Francisco and we love Frisco, but the town is something different. 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So they’re just kind of doing a lot of nostalgic things like this today at the stadium. And it does pull on your heartstrings. And throughout the day, I’ve just felt a lot of emotion. But it’s come at different times. You know, a little bit of tears in the morning because it’s just sad looking at the stadium, knowing you’re not coming back to see more A’s games. And then later on, after getting in here and getting some food and hanging out with my brother a little bit, you notice that, you know, it’s starting to get very emotional and sad about what’s being lost. And the cheers are starting up again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Radio announcer: \u003c/strong>[00:15:25] 2-2. Ripped into the gap, left center on the run. Bleday dives big on it. What a catch by JJ Bleday. 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There’s players on the field, you know, warming up, but also tossing balls out to the to the fans in the stands like a lot of baseballs are thrown out because it’s the last chance to do that for a fan in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Jenny Cavnar \u003c/strong>[00:08:38] Game 4493 will be played right here in Oakland between the athletics and the Texas Rangers. We welcome to the broadcast booth here at the Coliseum one last time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>TV announcer \u003c/strong>[00:08:59] The second baseman. Number two, Marcus Simeon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Jenny Cavnar \u003c/strong>[00:09:03] And. Langford coming home, Lawrence Butler coming home, it’s 2-0.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha \u003c/strong>[00:09:21] So we just finished the bottom of the third hour. 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In 2017, the team named its diamond Rickey Henderson Field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henderson played for the A’s in the 1980s through the 1990s and was a product of the Oakland sports hotbed going back generations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the thing that made Rickey the greatest leadoff man of all time … was just that combination of speed, power, and obviously, the thing that people pay most attention to in baseball now, his eye,” said Howard Bryant, a sports historian and author of “Rickey: The Life and Legend of an American Original.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henderson’s family was from Arkansas but followed the path of many African American families who moved West during the Second Great Migration between 1940 and 1970 — ending up in West Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In telling the story of Henderson, Bryant points to Huey Newton, who founded the Black Panthers and lived on the same Oakland Street as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13916840/the-day-bill-russell-roasted-me-at-mcclymonds\">iconic basketball player Bill Russell\u003c/a>. Russell and Newton’s families lived in the same neighborhood in Monroe, Louisiana, before settling in West Oakland. The migration stories of Henderson, as well as of other famous athletes — Paul Silas, Dave Stewart, Gary Pettis, Lloyd Moseby and more — all mirror that movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bryant spoke with KQED’s Brian Watt about what made Henderson a special player and how growing up in Oakland helped shape him as an athlete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This interview has been edited for length and clarity\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On how Rickey Henderson’s feats on the field made him a legend\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>What it is with him is the style, the confidence, the fearlessness in which he played baseball. When I look at the type of player that Rickey would be today and other eras, he wouldn’t be a leadoff hitter. He would be in the middle of the order with all the other power hitters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he was just such a unique player who could do anything he wanted on a baseball field. You couldn’t keep your eyes off him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006247\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006247\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-88770054.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1296\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-88770054.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-88770054-800x540.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-88770054-1020x689.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-88770054-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-88770054-1536x1037.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rickey Henderson takes off to steal second base against the California Angles, tying former St. Louis Cardinals Lou Brocks’ record of 938 career stolen bases during a game on April 28, 1991, at the Coliseum.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>On how Rickey Henderson and the way he got to Oakland became part of the city’s history\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>We always talk about Oakland as one of the great sports cities in terms of the development of the players. Where are they from? And that’s what I wanted to do with the first couple of chapters of this book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The players all come from Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas. That pipeline coming out of World War II all the way to West Oakland. And it wasn’t a migration to Oakland; it was a migration specifically to West Oakland. When you think about the concentration of African Americans in that one neighborhood, what also came with that was a massive concentration of athletic talent. It’s an unbelievable story in terms of talent for a town that is not very big.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On the concentration of athletes in Oakland\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>And all of these players are coming from a great distance. They are playing on the same Little League teams as kids. And then they end up playing in the major leagues together, and they’re on All-Star teams together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it was amazing to me talking to these players and asking, Rickey, When did you realize you had world class talent? And he was like, I don’t know, fifth or sixth grade? It’s incredible. But part of the reason that he had that much confidence was the legacy of Oakland sports — there were so many great players there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006250\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-12006250\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-88769995-1020x1511.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"948\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-88769995-1020x1511.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-88769995-800x1185.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-88769995-160x237.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-88769995-1037x1536.jpg 1037w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-88769995.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rickey Henderson hits during an early 1990s game at the Coliseum. \u003ccite>(Focus on Sport/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t rare for those guys to see players be that good and to feel like, well, if Joe Morgan could make the big leagues, I could make the big leagues. 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And, to have the heart and soul of America ripped out of Oakland is wrong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12004485 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-1425516638-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Giesler has been bringing her 15-year-old son to games for most of his life. During a recent game, they stocked up on merchandise and jerseys that read “Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We refuse to buy anything that says ‘Athletics,’” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Hernandez of Novato also attended Saturday’s game and brought a yellow poster board that read, “I’ll Miss You All.” The A in “all” was written in the A’s font. 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A Yankees fan poured beer on his head and threw the empty cup at him — \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYvXP4rEu_8\">a moment that turned into a viral video.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honestly, I was just so proud to rep Oakland and rep the A’s at that moment,” he said. “And then I moved back here a couple years ago and was so excited to go to games. Now I’m devastated at the situation we’re in. What can you do?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One caller, Robin, said she remembered attending the first game the A’s played in the Coliseum in 1968 when then California Gov. Ronald Reagan threw the first pitch. After she retired 10 years ago, she took a part-time job at the stadium and will be one of several hundred people who will lose work after the team leaves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the A’s came to Oakland, she said, “I fell in love. And the saddest thing is the kids. (Team owners) are taking (the team) away from the young kids. They’re not going to have them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006331\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006331\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240818_LastBoB_GC-48_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240818_LastBoB_GC-48_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240818_LastBoB_GC-48_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240818_LastBoB_GC-48_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240818_LastBoB_GC-48_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240818_LastBoB_GC-48_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240818_LastBoB_GC-48_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two young sisters attend the final Battle of the Bay game, between the A’s and the Giants at the Oakland Coliseum, on August 18. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sports teams become an idea and a brand for a city, said Pendarvis Harshaw, KQED columnist and lifelong A’s fan who spoke on \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11947286,news_11981876,news_11981232\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Culture is a tool, and civic engagement comes from a common shared identity,” he said. “I understand that fully … but it makes me scratch my head. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Giesler has been bringing her 15-year-old son to games for most of his life. During a recent game, they stocked up on merchandise and jerseys that read “Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We refuse to buy anything that says ‘Athletics,’” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Hernandez of Novato also attended Saturday’s game and brought a yellow poster board that read, “I’ll Miss You All.” The A in “all” was written in the A’s font. He said he was done being angry about the team’s upcoming departure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is what I’m going to miss,” he said, gesturing to a crowded corridor in the Coliseum near the concession stands. “I’m going to miss the team and the winning and all of that, but more than anything, I’ll miss coming here and seeing all these people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006327\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006327\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240818_LastBoB_GC-42_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240818_LastBoB_GC-42_qed-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240818_LastBoB_GC-42_qed-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240818_LastBoB_GC-42_qed-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240818_LastBoB_GC-42_qed-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240818_LastBoB_GC-42_qed-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240818_LastBoB_GC-42_qed-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fans cheer during the final Battle of the Bay game between the A’s and the Giants at the Oakland Coliseum on August 18. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>, listeners shared fond memories at the Coliseum: going to games as kids, arriving early for an elephant Beanie Babies giveaway, and enjoying the party atmosphere during pregame tailgates in the parking lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John from Oakland, a lifelong A’s fan, called in to talk about the time he lived in New York five years ago and went to an A’s game at Yankee Stadium. A Yankees fan poured beer on his head and threw the empty cup at him — \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYvXP4rEu_8\">a moment that turned into a viral video.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honestly, I was just so proud to rep Oakland and rep the A’s at that moment,” he said. “And then I moved back here a couple years ago and was so excited to go to games. Now I’m devastated at the situation we’re in. What can you do?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One caller, Robin, said she remembered attending the first game the A’s played in the Coliseum in 1968 when then California Gov. Ronald Reagan threw the first pitch. After she retired 10 years ago, she took a part-time job at the stadium and will be one of several hundred people who will lose work after the team leaves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the A’s came to Oakland, she said, “I fell in love. And the saddest thing is the kids. (Team owners) are taking (the team) away from the young kids. They’re not going to have them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006331\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006331\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240818_LastBoB_GC-48_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240818_LastBoB_GC-48_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240818_LastBoB_GC-48_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240818_LastBoB_GC-48_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240818_LastBoB_GC-48_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240818_LastBoB_GC-48_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240818_LastBoB_GC-48_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two young sisters attend the final Battle of the Bay game, between the A’s and the Giants at the Oakland Coliseum, on August 18. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sports teams become an idea and a brand for a city, said Pendarvis Harshaw, KQED columnist and lifelong A’s fan who spoke on \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Culture is a tool, and civic engagement comes from a common shared identity,” he said. “I understand that fully … but it makes me scratch my head. Like, maybe the foul is on us where we are supporting this franchise?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Coliseum also functioned as a town square where different groups of people could come together to root for the same banner, whether it was the Raiders, the A’s or the Warriors. Within a decade, all three teams have left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Margaret from Redwood City wrote in to say, “What is lost goes far beyond just high-fiving a stranger or neighbor. It is actually more cynical than that. The wealthy white owner following the wealth and taking away a financial, community-building resource from a historically Black community is just an example of the continuing inequity that still, in this day and age, leaves underserved communities struggling just like they always have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another fan wrote in, “My two older kids basically grew up at the Oakland Coliseum, watching the A’s. My husband and I married young and money was tight. But, we always managed to save a few bucks to go to at least a couple of games a season. Our holiday email always included a family photo at an A’s game at the Coliseum … It’s sad. The whole situation is tragic and wrong and selfish. Yet, I’m so grateful for the memories that this team has gifted my family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The A’s final home game in Oakland is scheduled at 12:37 p.m. on Thursday against the Texas Rangers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he Oakland A’s will play their final home game this week — a long-anticipated, sold-out event that will be an adventure in mass catharsis: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12004485/oakland-as-athletics-leaving-last-games\">surges of grief\u003c/a> and anger and loss mixed with waves of gratitude from the team’s tight-knit community of fans for everything A’s players and Coliseum workers have given them over the past 57 seasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It couldn’t be more different from the A’s departure from Philadelphia, their original hometown: Hardly anyone came to say goodbye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a gloomy September Sunday 70 years ago, near the end of a season \u003cem>The\u003c/em> \u003cem>Philadelphia Inquirer\u003c/em> summed up with one word — “dismal” — the Athletics lost to the Yankees in a virtually empty ballpark. On the team’s next opening day, they were playing halfway across the continent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why wasn’t the scene at Philadelphia’s Connie Mack Stadium even a little dramatic as the Athletics’ time in the city ended?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long before the end of the 1954 season, Philadelphians knew the A’s were in trouble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006261\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 989px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006261\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-515249186-e1727219834744.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"989\" height=\"665\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-515249186-e1727219834744.jpg 989w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-515249186-e1727219834744-800x538.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-515249186-e1727219834744-160x108.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 989px) 100vw, 989px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Connie Mack, the Philadelphia Athletics’ 86-year-old owner and manager, emerges from the dugout at New York’s Yankee Stadium during an event held in his honor, Aug. 21, 1949. \u003ccite>(Bettmann/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The team, owned by legendary manager Connie Mack and two of his sons, Roy and Earle, was broke. City officials and community leaders joined in a “Save the A’s” campaign to stoke enthusiasm for a team with a storied past: nine American League pennants, five World Series championships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The A’s let it be known in mid-season that if they could draw 550,000 paying customers, they’d have a shot at avoiding bankruptcy and a sale that could well result in the team moving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the A’s were a very bad team that had been, with few exceptions, very bad for a very long time. In the previous 20 seasons, the team had won more games than it lost only four times and never finished better than fourth in the eight-team league. The team’s customary finish was last place, and in 1954, it was headed there again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The A’s kept announcing, ‘We need so many people per game to come so we can reach our 550,000 fans,’ and the fans just kept ignoring it,” says Bob Warrington, a Philadelphia baseball historian who’s \u003ca href=\"https://sabr.org/journal/article/departure-without-dignity-the-athletics-leave-philadelphia/\">written about the A’s departure\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think what the A’s failed to realize, certainly Roy and Earle, was that baseball fans are not customers,” Warrington says. “They’re fans, they’re supporters. And you can’t threaten them into coming to the ballpark by saying, ‘If you don’t come, you know, we may not be here next year.’ You’ve got to encourage them to come.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006259\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006259\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-493927566.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"794\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-493927566.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-493927566-800x620.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-493927566-1020x791.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-493927566-160x124.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Philadelphia Athletics’ Jimmy Foxx is congratulated after hitting a home run during Game 4 of the 1931 World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals at Shibe Park, Oct. 6, 1931. \u003ccite>(The Stanley Weston Archive/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So the “Save the A’s” campaign fizzled, even as an out-of-town bidder made a highly publicized offer to buy the team and relocate to Kansas City. As autumn neared and the New York Yankees arrived for the season’s last home series, attendance stood at just under 300,000 — a little more than half what the A’s said they’d need to avoid financial disaster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Yankees won the first two games in front of tiny crowds on Friday and Saturday. The attendance on Sunday, Sept. 19 was even lower — just 1,715 fans pushed through the turnstiles — as the Yankees swept the series. It was just another loss in a season that everyone wanted to forget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within days, the American League would open talks on the future of the franchise. In early November, Connie Mack and his sons sold the team to — and the league approved the franchise’s transfer to — Kansas City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why did it come to this? Did the A’s have to leave? Here are some of the major factors:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Dismantling the champions\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Connie Mack had built two dynasties during his half-century running the A’s — one that reigned from 1910–14, the other from 1929–1931. Driven by concerns over the team’s financial prospects, he dismantled both. After 1931, Bob Warrington says, “Mack decided that he could do what he had done before with the first dynasty — sell off his best players and then build a new one. The problem is it didn’t work this time. The selloff of the second dynasty signaled the end of the Athletics as a team that could compete for the American League pennant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006270\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006270\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-515287368.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"799\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-515287368.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-515287368-800x624.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-515287368-1020x796.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-515287368-160x125.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Original caption: Cornelius MacGillicuddy, better known as Connie Mack, the famous manager of the Philadephia Athletics. \u003ccite>(Bettmann/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Lack of civic interest\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Retired University of Pennsylvania historian Bruce Kuklick says that one reason the Save the A’s campaign failed was the lack of interest on the part of Joe Clark, the mayor of Philadelphia, in 1954. Although Clark had signed on to the effort, Kuklick says his interest was half-hearted at best. “He was very much a Protestant aristocrat who … just didn’t give a shit about baseball.” Kuklick argues that the failure to do more to keep the team in Philadelphia was shortsighted and notes that many cities in the 1950s — including Kansas City — had realized the value of investing in professional sports as “an amenity” for residents. “One of my many gripes about what happened then is that he basically refused to have the city support the team in any way at all,” Kuklick says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Dynastic struggles\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mack’s longtime plan was to have his first male heirs, Earle and Roy, run the team when he was ready to step down. However, a disagreement over the direction of the A’s in 1950 led to a battle for control of the team. Roy and Earle succeeded in buying out other team shareholders and gaining, with their father, complete ownership of the team. But to raise the money, they were forced to mortgage the team’s stadium, Shibe Park, taking on a debt that would eventually sink them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006260\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006260\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-515142522.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"779\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-515142522.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-515142522-800x609.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-515142522-1020x776.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-515142522-160x122.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view of Shibe Park, the Philadelphia Athletics home from 1909-1954. The A’s played in seven World Series at the stadium: in 1910, 1911, 1913, 1914, 1929, 1930 and 1931. \u003ccite>(Bettmann/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Baseball’s changing landscape \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The National and American leagues and their 16 teams had been frozen in place for half a century through the early 1950s. That changed in the early 1950s as growing cities in the Midwest and West began seeking major league teams for themselves. Franchises in multi-team markets — New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston and St. Louis — were relocation candidates because, typically, one of the teams was struggling financially. Thus, the Boston Braves moved to Milwaukee in 1953, and the St. Louis Browns shifted to Baltimore and became the Orioles in 1954.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Mack in decline \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Connie Mack turned 80 at the end of 1942. As the decade progressed, historian Bruce Kuklick says, the “deterioration of Mack’s mind” became obvious in poor trade decisions, mistaken instructions to players during games, and eventually, failure of his memory. “By the late ’40s, he would call out the names of stars of bygone days to pinch-hit.” He was finally replaced as manager late in 1950.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite all of the factors weighing against the Athletics, though, the team’s sale and move out of Philadelphia was far from inevitable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of the 1954 season, American League owners, led by the New York Yankees, appeared ready to approve the sale of the team to a Chicago business executive and real estate speculator named Arnold Johnson, who was prepared to move the team to Kansas City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_12003029,news_12004485,news_11947286\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Macks were divided on whether to accept the offer and were twice granted more time to decide. With a league deadline approaching, Roy Mack agreed to join a group of local business owners who were ready to buy the A’s and keep the team in Philadelphia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But before the sale could be completed, Johnson intervened and promised Roy a bigger ownership stake in the team than he would have gotten from the Philadelphia group, along with a role running the team when it moved to Kansas City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As detailed in Warrington’s history of the deal, \u003cem>Departure Without Dignity: The Athletics Leave Philadelphia\u003c/em>, Roy essentially double-crossed his father, brother and the Philadelphia investors by voting against their proposal in a secret ballot of American League owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The A’s were Kansas City-bound.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Epilogue\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Kansas City scrambled to double the size of Municipal Stadium in time for the Athletics’ April home opener. The franchise beat its previous attendance record by nearly 50% in its first year in its new home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Kansas City version of the A’s was just as bad as its Philadelphia predecessor. Arnold Johnson didn’t field a competitive team after he moved the team in 1955, in large part because he developed a habit of trading away the team’s best young prospects to the New York Yankees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson died suddenly during spring training in 1960, and within a year, the Kansas City A’s had a new owner, Charles Oscar Finley, a Chicago-area insurance magnate who had been repeatedly frustrated in his bid to buy a team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the moment he gained ownership, he began trying to take the A’s elsewhere. The new homes he considered included Dallas-Fort Worth, Louisville, Milwaukee, Seattle and New Orleans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During seven seasons as the owner of the Kansas City A’s, he introduced colorful uniforms, adopted a mule as the team mascot, put sheep out to pasture beyond his stadium’s centerfield fence and watched as his team posted one lousy record after another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1967, the American League finally granted Finley permission to move to Oakland, leaving behind an angry Kansas City and beginning the 57-season era that ends in a mix of sorrow and outrage Thursday at the Coliseum. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">T\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>he Oakland A’s will play their final home game this week — a long-anticipated, sold-out event that will be an adventure in mass catharsis: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12004485/oakland-as-athletics-leaving-last-games\">surges of grief\u003c/a> and anger and loss mixed with waves of gratitude from the team’s tight-knit community of fans for everything A’s players and Coliseum workers have given them over the past 57 seasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It couldn’t be more different from the A’s departure from Philadelphia, their original hometown: Hardly anyone came to say goodbye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a gloomy September Sunday 70 years ago, near the end of a season \u003cem>The\u003c/em> \u003cem>Philadelphia Inquirer\u003c/em> summed up with one word — “dismal” — the Athletics lost to the Yankees in a virtually empty ballpark. On the team’s next opening day, they were playing halfway across the continent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why wasn’t the scene at Philadelphia’s Connie Mack Stadium even a little dramatic as the Athletics’ time in the city ended?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long before the end of the 1954 season, Philadelphians knew the A’s were in trouble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006261\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 989px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006261\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-515249186-e1727219834744.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"989\" height=\"665\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-515249186-e1727219834744.jpg 989w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-515249186-e1727219834744-800x538.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-515249186-e1727219834744-160x108.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 989px) 100vw, 989px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Connie Mack, the Philadelphia Athletics’ 86-year-old owner and manager, emerges from the dugout at New York’s Yankee Stadium during an event held in his honor, Aug. 21, 1949. \u003ccite>(Bettmann/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The team, owned by legendary manager Connie Mack and two of his sons, Roy and Earle, was broke. City officials and community leaders joined in a “Save the A’s” campaign to stoke enthusiasm for a team with a storied past: nine American League pennants, five World Series championships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The A’s let it be known in mid-season that if they could draw 550,000 paying customers, they’d have a shot at avoiding bankruptcy and a sale that could well result in the team moving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the A’s were a very bad team that had been, with few exceptions, very bad for a very long time. In the previous 20 seasons, the team had won more games than it lost only four times and never finished better than fourth in the eight-team league. The team’s customary finish was last place, and in 1954, it was headed there again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The A’s kept announcing, ‘We need so many people per game to come so we can reach our 550,000 fans,’ and the fans just kept ignoring it,” says Bob Warrington, a Philadelphia baseball historian who’s \u003ca href=\"https://sabr.org/journal/article/departure-without-dignity-the-athletics-leave-philadelphia/\">written about the A’s departure\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think what the A’s failed to realize, certainly Roy and Earle, was that baseball fans are not customers,” Warrington says. “They’re fans, they’re supporters. And you can’t threaten them into coming to the ballpark by saying, ‘If you don’t come, you know, we may not be here next year.’ You’ve got to encourage them to come.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006259\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006259\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-493927566.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"794\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-493927566.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-493927566-800x620.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-493927566-1020x791.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-493927566-160x124.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Philadelphia Athletics’ Jimmy Foxx is congratulated after hitting a home run during Game 4 of the 1931 World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals at Shibe Park, Oct. 6, 1931. \u003ccite>(The Stanley Weston Archive/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So the “Save the A’s” campaign fizzled, even as an out-of-town bidder made a highly publicized offer to buy the team and relocate to Kansas City. As autumn neared and the New York Yankees arrived for the season’s last home series, attendance stood at just under 300,000 — a little more than half what the A’s said they’d need to avoid financial disaster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Yankees won the first two games in front of tiny crowds on Friday and Saturday. The attendance on Sunday, Sept. 19 was even lower — just 1,715 fans pushed through the turnstiles — as the Yankees swept the series. It was just another loss in a season that everyone wanted to forget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within days, the American League would open talks on the future of the franchise. In early November, Connie Mack and his sons sold the team to — and the league approved the franchise’s transfer to — Kansas City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why did it come to this? Did the A’s have to leave? Here are some of the major factors:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Dismantling the champions\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Connie Mack had built two dynasties during his half-century running the A’s — one that reigned from 1910–14, the other from 1929–1931. Driven by concerns over the team’s financial prospects, he dismantled both. After 1931, Bob Warrington says, “Mack decided that he could do what he had done before with the first dynasty — sell off his best players and then build a new one. The problem is it didn’t work this time. The selloff of the second dynasty signaled the end of the Athletics as a team that could compete for the American League pennant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006270\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006270\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-515287368.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"799\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-515287368.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-515287368-800x624.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-515287368-1020x796.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-515287368-160x125.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Original caption: Cornelius MacGillicuddy, better known as Connie Mack, the famous manager of the Philadephia Athletics. \u003ccite>(Bettmann/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Lack of civic interest\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Retired University of Pennsylvania historian Bruce Kuklick says that one reason the Save the A’s campaign failed was the lack of interest on the part of Joe Clark, the mayor of Philadelphia, in 1954. Although Clark had signed on to the effort, Kuklick says his interest was half-hearted at best. “He was very much a Protestant aristocrat who … just didn’t give a shit about baseball.” Kuklick argues that the failure to do more to keep the team in Philadelphia was shortsighted and notes that many cities in the 1950s — including Kansas City — had realized the value of investing in professional sports as “an amenity” for residents. “One of my many gripes about what happened then is that he basically refused to have the city support the team in any way at all,” Kuklick says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Dynastic struggles\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mack’s longtime plan was to have his first male heirs, Earle and Roy, run the team when he was ready to step down. However, a disagreement over the direction of the A’s in 1950 led to a battle for control of the team. Roy and Earle succeeded in buying out other team shareholders and gaining, with their father, complete ownership of the team. But to raise the money, they were forced to mortgage the team’s stadium, Shibe Park, taking on a debt that would eventually sink them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006260\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006260\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-515142522.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"779\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-515142522.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-515142522-800x609.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-515142522-1020x776.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-515142522-160x122.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view of Shibe Park, the Philadelphia Athletics home from 1909-1954. The A’s played in seven World Series at the stadium: in 1910, 1911, 1913, 1914, 1929, 1930 and 1931. \u003ccite>(Bettmann/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Baseball’s changing landscape \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The National and American leagues and their 16 teams had been frozen in place for half a century through the early 1950s. That changed in the early 1950s as growing cities in the Midwest and West began seeking major league teams for themselves. Franchises in multi-team markets — New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston and St. Louis — were relocation candidates because, typically, one of the teams was struggling financially. Thus, the Boston Braves moved to Milwaukee in 1953, and the St. Louis Browns shifted to Baltimore and became the Orioles in 1954.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Mack in decline \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Connie Mack turned 80 at the end of 1942. As the decade progressed, historian Bruce Kuklick says, the “deterioration of Mack’s mind” became obvious in poor trade decisions, mistaken instructions to players during games, and eventually, failure of his memory. “By the late ’40s, he would call out the names of stars of bygone days to pinch-hit.” He was finally replaced as manager late in 1950.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite all of the factors weighing against the Athletics, though, the team’s sale and move out of Philadelphia was far from inevitable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of the 1954 season, American League owners, led by the New York Yankees, appeared ready to approve the sale of the team to a Chicago business executive and real estate speculator named Arnold Johnson, who was prepared to move the team to Kansas City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Macks were divided on whether to accept the offer and were twice granted more time to decide. With a league deadline approaching, Roy Mack agreed to join a group of local business owners who were ready to buy the A’s and keep the team in Philadelphia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But before the sale could be completed, Johnson intervened and promised Roy a bigger ownership stake in the team than he would have gotten from the Philadelphia group, along with a role running the team when it moved to Kansas City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As detailed in Warrington’s history of the deal, \u003cem>Departure Without Dignity: The Athletics Leave Philadelphia\u003c/em>, Roy essentially double-crossed his father, brother and the Philadelphia investors by voting against their proposal in a secret ballot of American League owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The A’s were Kansas City-bound.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Epilogue\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Kansas City scrambled to double the size of Municipal Stadium in time for the Athletics’ April home opener. The franchise beat its previous attendance record by nearly 50% in its first year in its new home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Kansas City version of the A’s was just as bad as its Philadelphia predecessor. Arnold Johnson didn’t field a competitive team after he moved the team in 1955, in large part because he developed a habit of trading away the team’s best young prospects to the New York Yankees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson died suddenly during spring training in 1960, and within a year, the Kansas City A’s had a new owner, Charles Oscar Finley, a Chicago-area insurance magnate who had been repeatedly frustrated in his bid to buy a team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the moment he gained ownership, he began trying to take the A’s elsewhere. The new homes he considered included Dallas-Fort Worth, Louisville, Milwaukee, Seattle and New Orleans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During seven seasons as the owner of the Kansas City A’s, he introduced colorful uniforms, adopted a mule as the team mascot, put sheep out to pasture beyond his stadium’s centerfield fence and watched as his team posted one lousy record after another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1967, the American League finally granted Finley permission to move to Oakland, leaving behind an angry Kansas City and beginning the 57-season era that ends in a mix of sorrow and outrage Thursday at the Coliseum. The team Finley brought with him, the product of his investment in young talent, was about to emerge as the one of the best in baseball history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006257\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006257\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-72377453.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"780\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-72377453.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-72377453-800x609.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-72377453-1020x777.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-72377453-160x122.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former President Harry Truman (center) is flanked by Lou Boudreau (left), manager of the Kansas City Athletics, and Bucky Harris, Senators manager, as he throws out the first ball for the A’s inaugural game in Municipal Stadium in April 1955. \u003ccite>(Mark Rucker/Transcendental Graphics via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Recommended reading\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://sabr.org/journal/article/departure-without-dignity-the-athletics-leave-philadelphia/\">\u003cem>Departure Without Dignity: The Athletics Leave Philadelphia\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, Bob Warrington’s 14,000-word article for the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691021041/to-every-thing-a-season\">\u003cem>To Everything a Season: Shibe Park and Urban Philadelphia\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, by University of Pennsylvania historian Bruce Kuklick.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9780803237650/the-grand-old-man-of-baseball/\">\u003cem>The Grand Old Man of Baseball: Connie Mack in His Final Years, 1932–1956\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>,\u003c/em> the final installment of a three-volume Mack biography by Norman L. Macht.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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