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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/liveblog/lastoaklandasgame\">Follow live coverage from KQED reporters and photographers of the A’s final game at the Oakland Coliseum\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]B[/dropcap]ob Rosenthal, a lifelong baseball fan and a merchandise vendor at the Oakland Coliseum, said he likens working during A’s games to “getting paid to eat candy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I wasn’t doing it, I’d probably be going to the games and spending money,” said the 73-year-old, who worked at the Coliseum since the first A’s game there in 1968, when the team moved to Oakland from Kansas City. “I figured I might as well work there and get paid for what I do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite his sunny disposition, sporting the team’s green and gold, he said the last few weeks have been “heart-wrenching.” He is among hundreds of workers — security, food vendors, broadcasters, among others — who face uncertain times as the A’s play their final home game at the Coliseum on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s basically cutting out 50 percent of my salary,” said Rosenthal, who also works a similar gig at San Francisco Giants games. “I’m not going to be able to go on vacations like I used to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, A’s owner John Fisher announced the team would move to West Sacramento for at least the next three seasons while a proposed new $1.5 billion stadium in Las Vegas is built to house the A’s permanently. In a press release on Monday, he apologized to fans: “Though I wish I could speak to each one of you individually, I can tell you this from the heart: we tried. Staying in Oakland was our goal. It was our mission, and we failed to achieve it. And for that, I am genuinely sorry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005839\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005839\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-05-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-05-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lee Neuo works to stock the fridges of the field box seats along the first and third base lines at the Oakland Coliseum in Oakland on Sept. 20., 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area has historically been blessed with a multitude of professional sports teams that have allowed the many Coliseum workers to cobble together a full-time workload. When baseball season ends, people can transition to working football and basketball game, or nonsporting events, like concerts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To make a living in this business, you have to work multiple venues,” said John Arnolfo, the director of the concessions vendors division for Teamsters Local 853, which represents about 60 Coliseum vendors, including Rosenthal. “Most of these people that work the A’s, they work the Giants, Warriors, 49ers. They used to work the Raiders.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Arnolfo, the arrival of a women’s professional basketball team, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986061/get-ready-for-the-golden-state-valkyries-bay-areas-new-wnba-team\">Golden State Valkyries\u003c/a>, which are set to begin playing next season at San Francisco’s Chase Center, will also help soften the financial blow for some Coliseum workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005843\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005843\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-12-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-12-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-12-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-12-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-12-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-12-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-12-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rachel (center) and Luis Gonzalez (left) wait in line to buy A’s merchandise from at the team store at the Oakland Coliseum in Oakland on Sept. 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But out of all those sports, baseball promises the most profits for many workers because there are so many games, multiple workers told KQED. During a six-month regular season, the A’s play around 81 games out of a 162-game season at home. (By comparison, the 49ers are scheduled to play nine games at home out of their 17-game season.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s so many people at the Coliseum that we’ve seen every day who’ve been here even longer than I’ve been here, and I don’t know what their future holds, and that breaks my heart,” said David Feldman, who grew up in Walnut Creek, and has worked on the A’s television broadcast crew since 1991. “Besides the place where I live, the place where I have spent the most days of my life has been at the Oakland Coliseum.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said until now, Major League Baseball has done a good job of making sure the A’s and Giants aren’t playing home games at the same time, allowing him to work for both teams. This season, the A’s and the Giants only played six games when both teams were at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005842\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005842\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-11-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-11-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-11-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-11-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-11-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-11-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-11-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A’s fan Jesse Gonzalez (front) and others examine the hats at a merchandise store at the Oakland Coliseum in Oakland on Sept. 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With the A’s moving out of the Bay Area next season, the MLB has scheduled the two baseball teams to play 56 home games at the same time. This means, next year, even if he wanted to make the drive to West Sacramento to work an A’s game, it would likely conflict with his ability to work a Giants game, Feldman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s going to impact a lot of the TV crew workers who used to work at both places,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feldman hopes to continue to work for A’s broadcasting, but how that might work out is unclear to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It hasn’t been talked about,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers face different outcomes once the Coliseum shuts its gates to the A’s partly because of the patchwork of employers there — the team itself, third-party contractors for things like security, and the food service giant Aramark, which employs people in roles like cooks, bartenders, and food servers. Some employees have union representation and some do not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005841\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005841\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-08-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-08-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-08-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-08-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-08-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rick Cowell works to restock A’s merchandise at a team store at the Oakland Coliseum in Oakland on Sept. 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Unite Here Local 2 represents over 400 people, many working for Aramark. IATSE 107 represents stagehands who service the building, fixing seats and setting up metal detectors. Allied Universal takes care of security during games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yulisa Elenes, vice president of the East and North Bay at Unite Here Local 2, said that workers she represents — many of whom have worked at the Coliseum for decades — are at risk of being laid off by Aramark once the A’s leave because their contract is specific to the Oakland Coliseum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These jobs here at the Coliseum have been really important to the community in Oakland,” she said. “A lot of the workers have used this job as a way to be able to get benefits, get training to learn how to be a cook or concession worker and apply those skills to get a different job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_12006230,news_12006211,news_12004485\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said longtime employees are upset that Aramark denied a proposal from the union for severance pay and that the company is cutting off workers’ benefits earlier than what workers are entitled to. She said the union plans to file a grievance with Aramark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to KQED, Debbie Albert, a spokesperson for Aramark, said: “We understand that this is a difficult transition period. We are bargaining in good faith with the union regarding the effects of the A’s departure and are prepared to offer those impacted available roles in other areas of our organization.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the future of the Oakland Coliseum itself, in August, the Oakland Roots soccer team announced they reached a deal to play their 2025 home games at the Coliseum, ensuring at least for part of next year, the venue will not sit vacant. Both the A’s and the city of Oakland have sold their share of the Coliseum site to a local Black-owned developer group with plans for housing, green space, entertainment and retail for the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with some prospects for other work, for people like Bob Rosenthal, who has been working at the Coliseum as long as the A’s, Thursday’s game will be a hard day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005840\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005840\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teams prepare the field at the Oakland Coliseum in Oakland on Sept. 20., 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to be quite emotional walking out of there and getting into my car for the last time,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feldman said he has been going through the five stages of grief. He’s now at acceptance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think for most of the fans and the employees, we’re all feeling it. It’s easy to put blame on the A’s owners, and some people want to blame the city of Oakland, but at the end of the day, it just sucks for everybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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And for that, I am genuinely sorry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005839\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005839\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-05-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-05-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lee Neuo works to stock the fridges of the field box seats along the first and third base lines at the Oakland Coliseum in Oakland on Sept. 20., 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area has historically been blessed with a multitude of professional sports teams that have allowed the many Coliseum workers to cobble together a full-time workload. When baseball season ends, people can transition to working football and basketball game, or nonsporting events, like concerts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To make a living in this business, you have to work multiple venues,” said John Arnolfo, the director of the concessions vendors division for Teamsters Local 853, which represents about 60 Coliseum vendors, including Rosenthal. “Most of these people that work the A’s, they work the Giants, Warriors, 49ers. They used to work the Raiders.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Arnolfo, the arrival of a women’s professional basketball team, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986061/get-ready-for-the-golden-state-valkyries-bay-areas-new-wnba-team\">Golden State Valkyries\u003c/a>, which are set to begin playing next season at San Francisco’s Chase Center, will also help soften the financial blow for some Coliseum workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005843\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005843\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-12-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-12-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-12-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-12-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-12-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-12-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-12-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rachel (center) and Luis Gonzalez (left) wait in line to buy A’s merchandise from at the team store at the Oakland Coliseum in Oakland on Sept. 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But out of all those sports, baseball promises the most profits for many workers because there are so many games, multiple workers told KQED. During a six-month regular season, the A’s play around 81 games out of a 162-game season at home. (By comparison, the 49ers are scheduled to play nine games at home out of their 17-game season.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s so many people at the Coliseum that we’ve seen every day who’ve been here even longer than I’ve been here, and I don’t know what their future holds, and that breaks my heart,” said David Feldman, who grew up in Walnut Creek, and has worked on the A’s television broadcast crew since 1991. “Besides the place where I live, the place where I have spent the most days of my life has been at the Oakland Coliseum.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said until now, Major League Baseball has done a good job of making sure the A’s and Giants aren’t playing home games at the same time, allowing him to work for both teams. This season, the A’s and the Giants only played six games when both teams were at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005842\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005842\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-11-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-11-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-11-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-11-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-11-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-11-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-11-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A’s fan Jesse Gonzalez (front) and others examine the hats at a merchandise store at the Oakland Coliseum in Oakland on Sept. 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With the A’s moving out of the Bay Area next season, the MLB has scheduled the two baseball teams to play 56 home games at the same time. This means, next year, even if he wanted to make the drive to West Sacramento to work an A’s game, it would likely conflict with his ability to work a Giants game, Feldman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s going to impact a lot of the TV crew workers who used to work at both places,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feldman hopes to continue to work for A’s broadcasting, but how that might work out is unclear to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It hasn’t been talked about,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers face different outcomes once the Coliseum shuts its gates to the A’s partly because of the patchwork of employers there — the team itself, third-party contractors for things like security, and the food service giant Aramark, which employs people in roles like cooks, bartenders, and food servers. Some employees have union representation and some do not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005841\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005841\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-08-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-08-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-08-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-08-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-08-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rick Cowell works to restock A’s merchandise at a team store at the Oakland Coliseum in Oakland on Sept. 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Unite Here Local 2 represents over 400 people, many working for Aramark. IATSE 107 represents stagehands who service the building, fixing seats and setting up metal detectors. Allied Universal takes care of security during games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yulisa Elenes, vice president of the East and North Bay at Unite Here Local 2, said that workers she represents — many of whom have worked at the Coliseum for decades — are at risk of being laid off by Aramark once the A’s leave because their contract is specific to the Oakland Coliseum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These jobs here at the Coliseum have been really important to the community in Oakland,” she said. “A lot of the workers have used this job as a way to be able to get benefits, get training to learn how to be a cook or concession worker and apply those skills to get a different job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said longtime employees are upset that Aramark denied a proposal from the union for severance pay and that the company is cutting off workers’ benefits earlier than what workers are entitled to. She said the union plans to file a grievance with Aramark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to KQED, Debbie Albert, a spokesperson for Aramark, said: “We understand that this is a difficult transition period. We are bargaining in good faith with the union regarding the effects of the A’s departure and are prepared to offer those impacted available roles in other areas of our organization.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the future of the Oakland Coliseum itself, in August, the Oakland Roots soccer team announced they reached a deal to play their 2025 home games at the Coliseum, ensuring at least for part of next year, the venue will not sit vacant. Both the A’s and the city of Oakland have sold their share of the Coliseum site to a local Black-owned developer group with plans for housing, green space, entertainment and retail for the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with some prospects for other work, for people like Bob Rosenthal, who has been working at the Coliseum as long as the A’s, Thursday’s game will be a hard day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005840\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005840\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teams prepare the field at the Oakland Coliseum in Oakland on Sept. 20., 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to be quite emotional walking out of there and getting into my car for the last time,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feldman said he has been going through the five stages of grief. He’s now at acceptance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think for most of the fans and the employees, we’re all feeling it. It’s easy to put blame on the A’s owners, and some people want to blame the city of Oakland, but at the end of the day, it just sucks for everybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he Oakland A’s will play their final home game this week — a long-anticipated, sold-out event that will be an adventure in mass catharsis: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12004485/oakland-as-athletics-leaving-last-games\">surges of grief\u003c/a> and anger and loss mixed with waves of gratitude from the team’s tight-knit community of fans for everything A’s players and Coliseum workers have given them over the past 57 seasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It couldn’t be more different from the A’s departure from Philadelphia, their original hometown: Hardly anyone came to say goodbye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a gloomy September Sunday 70 years ago, near the end of a season \u003cem>The\u003c/em> \u003cem>Philadelphia Inquirer\u003c/em> summed up with one word — “dismal” — the Athletics lost to the Yankees in a virtually empty ballpark. On the team’s next opening day, they were playing halfway across the continent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why wasn’t the scene at Philadelphia’s Connie Mack Stadium even a little dramatic as the Athletics’ time in the city ended?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long before the end of the 1954 season, Philadelphians knew the A’s were in trouble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006261\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 989px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006261\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-515249186-e1727219834744.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"989\" height=\"665\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-515249186-e1727219834744.jpg 989w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-515249186-e1727219834744-800x538.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-515249186-e1727219834744-160x108.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 989px) 100vw, 989px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Connie Mack, the Philadelphia Athletics’ 86-year-old owner and manager, emerges from the dugout at New York’s Yankee Stadium during an event held in his honor, Aug. 21, 1949. \u003ccite>(Bettmann/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The team, owned by legendary manager Connie Mack and two of his sons, Roy and Earle, was broke. City officials and community leaders joined in a “Save the A’s” campaign to stoke enthusiasm for a team with a storied past: nine American League pennants, five World Series championships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The A’s let it be known in mid-season that if they could draw 550,000 paying customers, they’d have a shot at avoiding bankruptcy and a sale that could well result in the team moving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the A’s were a very bad team that had been, with few exceptions, very bad for a very long time. In the previous 20 seasons, the team had won more games than it lost only four times and never finished better than fourth in the eight-team league. The team’s customary finish was last place, and in 1954, it was headed there again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The A’s kept announcing, ‘We need so many people per game to come so we can reach our 550,000 fans,’ and the fans just kept ignoring it,” says Bob Warrington, a Philadelphia baseball historian who’s \u003ca href=\"https://sabr.org/journal/article/departure-without-dignity-the-athletics-leave-philadelphia/\">written about the A’s departure\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think what the A’s failed to realize, certainly Roy and Earle, was that baseball fans are not customers,” Warrington says. “They’re fans, they’re supporters. And you can’t threaten them into coming to the ballpark by saying, ‘If you don’t come, you know, we may not be here next year.’ You’ve got to encourage them to come.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006259\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006259\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-493927566.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"794\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-493927566.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-493927566-800x620.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-493927566-1020x791.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-493927566-160x124.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Philadelphia Athletics’ Jimmy Foxx is congratulated after hitting a home run during Game 4 of the 1931 World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals at Shibe Park, Oct. 6, 1931. \u003ccite>(The Stanley Weston Archive/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So the “Save the A’s” campaign fizzled, even as an out-of-town bidder made a highly publicized offer to buy the team and relocate to Kansas City. As autumn neared and the New York Yankees arrived for the season’s last home series, attendance stood at just under 300,000 — a little more than half what the A’s said they’d need to avoid financial disaster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Yankees won the first two games in front of tiny crowds on Friday and Saturday. The attendance on Sunday, Sept. 19 was even lower — just 1,715 fans pushed through the turnstiles — as the Yankees swept the series. It was just another loss in a season that everyone wanted to forget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within days, the American League would open talks on the future of the franchise. In early November, Connie Mack and his sons sold the team to — and the league approved the franchise’s transfer to — Kansas City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why did it come to this? Did the A’s have to leave? Here are some of the major factors:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Dismantling the champions\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Connie Mack had built two dynasties during his half-century running the A’s — one that reigned from 1910–14, the other from 1929–1931. Driven by concerns over the team’s financial prospects, he dismantled both. After 1931, Bob Warrington says, “Mack decided that he could do what he had done before with the first dynasty — sell off his best players and then build a new one. The problem is it didn’t work this time. The selloff of the second dynasty signaled the end of the Athletics as a team that could compete for the American League pennant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006270\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006270\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-515287368.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"799\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-515287368.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-515287368-800x624.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-515287368-1020x796.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-515287368-160x125.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Original caption: Cornelius MacGillicuddy, better known as Connie Mack, the famous manager of the Philadephia Athletics. \u003ccite>(Bettmann/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Lack of civic interest\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Retired University of Pennsylvania historian Bruce Kuklick says that one reason the Save the A’s campaign failed was the lack of interest on the part of Joe Clark, the mayor of Philadelphia, in 1954. Although Clark had signed on to the effort, Kuklick says his interest was half-hearted at best. “He was very much a Protestant aristocrat who … just didn’t give a shit about baseball.” Kuklick argues that the failure to do more to keep the team in Philadelphia was shortsighted and notes that many cities in the 1950s — including Kansas City — had realized the value of investing in professional sports as “an amenity” for residents. “One of my many gripes about what happened then is that he basically refused to have the city support the team in any way at all,” Kuklick says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Dynastic struggles\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mack’s longtime plan was to have his first male heirs, Earle and Roy, run the team when he was ready to step down. However, a disagreement over the direction of the A’s in 1950 led to a battle for control of the team. Roy and Earle succeeded in buying out other team shareholders and gaining, with their father, complete ownership of the team. But to raise the money, they were forced to mortgage the team’s stadium, Shibe Park, taking on a debt that would eventually sink them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006260\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006260\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-515142522.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"779\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-515142522.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-515142522-800x609.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-515142522-1020x776.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-515142522-160x122.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view of Shibe Park, the Philadelphia Athletics home from 1909-1954. The A’s played in seven World Series at the stadium: in 1910, 1911, 1913, 1914, 1929, 1930 and 1931. \u003ccite>(Bettmann/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Baseball’s changing landscape \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The National and American leagues and their 16 teams had been frozen in place for half a century through the early 1950s. That changed in the early 1950s as growing cities in the Midwest and West began seeking major league teams for themselves. Franchises in multi-team markets — New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston and St. Louis — were relocation candidates because, typically, one of the teams was struggling financially. Thus, the Boston Braves moved to Milwaukee in 1953, and the St. Louis Browns shifted to Baltimore and became the Orioles in 1954.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Mack in decline \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Connie Mack turned 80 at the end of 1942. As the decade progressed, historian Bruce Kuklick says, the “deterioration of Mack’s mind” became obvious in poor trade decisions, mistaken instructions to players during games, and eventually, failure of his memory. “By the late ’40s, he would call out the names of stars of bygone days to pinch-hit.” He was finally replaced as manager late in 1950.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite all of the factors weighing against the Athletics, though, the team’s sale and move out of Philadelphia was far from inevitable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of the 1954 season, American League owners, led by the New York Yankees, appeared ready to approve the sale of the team to a Chicago business executive and real estate speculator named Arnold Johnson, who was prepared to move the team to Kansas City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_12003029,news_12004485,news_11947286\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Macks were divided on whether to accept the offer and were twice granted more time to decide. With a league deadline approaching, Roy Mack agreed to join a group of local business owners who were ready to buy the A’s and keep the team in Philadelphia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But before the sale could be completed, Johnson intervened and promised Roy a bigger ownership stake in the team than he would have gotten from the Philadelphia group, along with a role running the team when it moved to Kansas City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As detailed in Warrington’s history of the deal, \u003cem>Departure Without Dignity: The Athletics Leave Philadelphia\u003c/em>, Roy essentially double-crossed his father, brother and the Philadelphia investors by voting against their proposal in a secret ballot of American League owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The A’s were Kansas City-bound.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Epilogue\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Kansas City scrambled to double the size of Municipal Stadium in time for the Athletics’ April home opener. The franchise beat its previous attendance record by nearly 50% in its first year in its new home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Kansas City version of the A’s was just as bad as its Philadelphia predecessor. Arnold Johnson didn’t field a competitive team after he moved the team in 1955, in large part because he developed a habit of trading away the team’s best young prospects to the New York Yankees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson died suddenly during spring training in 1960, and within a year, the Kansas City A’s had a new owner, Charles Oscar Finley, a Chicago-area insurance magnate who had been repeatedly frustrated in his bid to buy a team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the moment he gained ownership, he began trying to take the A’s elsewhere. The new homes he considered included Dallas-Fort Worth, Louisville, Milwaukee, Seattle and New Orleans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During seven seasons as the owner of the Kansas City A’s, he introduced colorful uniforms, adopted a mule as the team mascot, put sheep out to pasture beyond his stadium’s centerfield fence and watched as his team posted one lousy record after another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1967, the American League finally granted Finley permission to move to Oakland, leaving behind an angry Kansas City and beginning the 57-season era that ends in a mix of sorrow and outrage Thursday at the Coliseum. The team Finley brought with him, the product of his investment in young talent, was about to emerge as the one of the best in baseball history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006257\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006257\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-72377453.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"780\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-72377453.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-72377453-800x609.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-72377453-1020x777.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-72377453-160x122.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former President Harry Truman (center) is flanked by Lou Boudreau (left), manager of the Kansas City Athletics, and Bucky Harris, Senators manager, as he throws out the first ball for the A’s inaugural game in Municipal Stadium in April 1955. \u003ccite>(Mark Rucker/Transcendental Graphics via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Recommended reading\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://sabr.org/journal/article/departure-without-dignity-the-athletics-leave-philadelphia/\">\u003cem>Departure Without Dignity: The Athletics Leave Philadelphia\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, Bob Warrington’s 14,000-word article for the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691021041/to-every-thing-a-season\">\u003cem>To Everything a Season: Shibe Park and Urban Philadelphia\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, by University of Pennsylvania historian Bruce Kuklick.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9780803237650/the-grand-old-man-of-baseball/\">\u003cem>The Grand Old Man of Baseball: Connie Mack in His Final Years, 1932–1956\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>,\u003c/em> the final installment of a three-volume Mack biography by Norman L. Macht.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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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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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. 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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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"content": "\u003cp>A boy who was abducted from a California park in 1951 has been found alive and well on the East Coast thanks to DNA testing and the persistent efforts of his family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luis Armando Albino was just 6 years old when he was kidnapped from the Oakland park where he had been playing with his older brother, lured by a woman who promised to buy him candy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, she “transported him out of state and eventually to the East Coast,” the Oakland Police Department (OPD) told NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State and federal authorities searched extensively for Albino in the wake of his disappearance but couldn’t find him or his remains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All the while, his mother, Antonia Albino — who had moved the family from their native Puerto Rico just the year before — never gave up hope that he was alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She visited the police’s missing person bureau to press for information almost daily at first, then weekly, then monthly, and eventually annually, according to the \u003cem>Mercury News\u003c/em>, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/09/20/oakland-boy-kidnapped-1951-found-alive-new-york/\">first reported the news\u003c/a> of his discovery last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family renewed their search 15 years after the kidnapping when Albino would have been 21, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/bay-area-boy-kidnapped-park-found-alive-19784249.php\">SFGATE reported\u003c/a>. They made multiple trips to Puerto Rico, where Antonia suspected her son had been taken, but turned up nothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a rare situation when a boy disappears and doesn’t eventually show up — alive or dead,” Oakland police Lt. Dominic DiFraia told \u003cem>The Oakland Tribune \u003c/em>in 1966. “I’d give an awful lot to find out why.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has taken seven decades to begin to unravel that mystery. Earlier this year, long after his mother had died and his case had grown cold, it was Albino’s niece who finally tracked him down.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>DNA tests and newspaper clippings led investigators out east\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Alida Alequin, 63, knew she had a missing uncle because her family talked about it. Her late grandmother always kept a newspaper clipping about his abduction in her wallet and displayed his photo at their family home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alequin decided to take an online DNA test in 2020 “just for fun,” as she told the \u003cem>Mercury News\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the results was a 22% match with a man she had never met. The Oakland resident reached out to him but didn’t hear back or pursue it further — until earlier this year when she watched a documentary that inspired her to renew her search.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alequin and her daughters searched the man’s name online, pored over microfilm of old \u003cem>Oakland Tribune \u003c/em>articles at the public library and became increasingly convinced that the man from the DNA database was their long-lost relative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OPD says she contacted their missing persons unit in March to alert them about the DNA test results and her uncle’s possible identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Armed with new leads and technology, police reopened Albino’s case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They searched through public records of the potential match and collected DNA samples from Albino’s living siblings, with help from the California Department of Justice and the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police said investigators were unsuccessful in their multiple attempts to contact Albino and his family, and eventually were able to get FBI special agents dispatched to contact him at his residence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI confirmed to NPR that it assisted Oakland police “by our ability to access … resources across state lines.” Authorities have not specified where Albino had been living on the East Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agents were eventually able to interview Albino and take a DNA sample.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His statements and genetics confirmed what police call “the best possible outcome”: He was indeed the boy who’d been snatched from the park 73 years earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We didn’t start crying until after the investigators left,” Alequin told \u003cem>Mercury News\u003c/em>. “I grabbed my mom’s hands and said, ‘We found him.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A “family reunion over 70 years in the making”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Details about Albino’s life on the East Coast are relatively scarce, and police say his case remains under investigation. They are asking anyone with information to contact the OPD \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/topics/missing-persons\">Missing Persons Unit\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Mercury News\u003c/em> says Albino is a retired firefighter and Marine Corps veteran who served two tours of duty in Vietnam. He spent most of his life believing he was the “son of another couple,” according to \u003cem>SFGate\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, Albino flew to California to meet Alequin and his other relatives. Police said the visit was arranged and funded by OPD investigators, FBI Victims Advocates and the California DOJ.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was an emotional moment for all parties involved and was a family reunion over 70 years in the making,” they added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alequin said her uncle hugged her, gave her a kiss on the cheek and said, “Thank you for finding me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has some memory of the abduction and his cross-country trip, she added but had never gotten answers from the adults in his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During that trip, Albino reunited with his brother Roger, who had been with him on that fateful February day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alequin said the two “grabbed each other and had a really tight long hug,” then sat and talked about the kidnapping, their military service and more.[aside postID=\"news_11971374,news_11934183\" label=\"Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their reunion came at a bittersweet time: Roger died two months later, in August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think he died happily,” Alequin said. “He was at peace with himself, knowing that his brother was found.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she was glad she could bring some closure to her mom and uncle and believed her grandmother — who died in 2005 — would be happy, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And who knows, with my story out there, it could help other families going through the same thing,” Alequin added. “I would say don’t give up.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The Oakland resident reached out to him but didn’t hear back or pursue it further — until earlier this year when she watched a documentary that inspired her to renew her search.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alequin and her daughters searched the man’s name online, pored over microfilm of old \u003cem>Oakland Tribune \u003c/em>articles at the public library and became increasingly convinced that the man from the DNA database was their long-lost relative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OPD says she contacted their missing persons unit in March to alert them about the DNA test results and her uncle’s possible identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Armed with new leads and technology, police reopened Albino’s case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They searched through public records of the potential match and collected DNA samples from Albino’s living siblings, with help from the California Department of Justice and the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police said investigators were unsuccessful in their multiple attempts to contact Albino and his family, and eventually were able to get FBI special agents dispatched to contact him at his residence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI confirmed to NPR that it assisted Oakland police “by our ability to access … resources across state lines.” Authorities have not specified where Albino had been living on the East Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agents were eventually able to interview Albino and take a DNA sample.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His statements and genetics confirmed what police call “the best possible outcome”: He was indeed the boy who’d been snatched from the park 73 years earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We didn’t start crying until after the investigators left,” Alequin told \u003cem>Mercury News\u003c/em>. “I grabbed my mom’s hands and said, ‘We found him.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A “family reunion over 70 years in the making”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Details about Albino’s life on the East Coast are relatively scarce, and police say his case remains under investigation. They are asking anyone with information to contact the OPD \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/topics/missing-persons\">Missing Persons Unit\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Mercury News\u003c/em> says Albino is a retired firefighter and Marine Corps veteran who served two tours of duty in Vietnam. He spent most of his life believing he was the “son of another couple,” according to \u003cem>SFGate\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, Albino flew to California to meet Alequin and his other relatives. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A legal spat between the city of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland\">Oakland\u003c/a> and its school board over the cost of elections doesn’t appear to be heading toward a quick resolution, as the board argues that it’s not responsible for paying such costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This comes after the city sued the Oakland Unified School District on Friday, seeking an order for the district to pay more than $2 million, alleging that the district’s Board of Education has refused to pay its fair share of election costs, dating back to the school board election in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We operate schools. We don’t run elections,” Board President Sam Davis told KQED on Tuesday. “That’s just not what we do as a school district.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis responded that the Alameda County superintendent called the special election, not the school board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe that’s just semantics, but these are the details that matter in a legal dispute,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland city officials claimed that OUSD already owed the city more than $1.5 million for its share of election costs in 2020 and 2022 — and that officials hadn’t realized it. In their complaint, filed in Alameda County Superior Court, they allege a “history of past payment” by OUSD and say “clear California law” requires school districts to pay their share of election costs for ballot measures related to OUSD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Davis said the past two general elections were called in compliance with the city’s charter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s cities like New York or Boston where board members are appointed in different ways by the city. But in Oakland, the choice of the city has been to have elections,” he said. “That’s why I believe it’s the city’s responsibility to organize those elections and pay for them through the county.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis said he hopes the city will drop the lawsuit, but in the meantime, the school board will continue working with the city on other pressing issues — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12000525/water-at-22-oakland-schools-tested-high-for-lead-its-no-surprise-parents-and-teachers-say\">like high levels of lead contamination\u003c/a> found in some schools’ water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s some areas where we actually need to collaborate,” Davis said. “And by getting involved in litigation, it just takes resources away from serving our kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/afinney\">Annelise Finney\u003c/a> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>With less than two months to go until the November general election, KQED reporters are here to answer your questions about local, state and national races to get you ready for Election Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, I answered questions from readers about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12004395/inside-the-effort-to-recall-alameda-county-district-attorney-pamela-price\">the recall election of Alameda County’s District Attorney Pamela Price\u003c/a>. Sign up for KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/newsletters/news-daily\">free News Daily email\u003c/a> so you don’t miss any of our pre-election Q&As and check out \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide\">KQED’s California Voter Guide\u003c/a> for more information on races up and down the ballot this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let’s jump in.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Why are Oakland voters deciding whether to recall Mayor Sheng Thao this November?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Thao has faced criticism since she beat former City Councilmember Loren Taylor by a razor-thin margin in the 2022 election. Early on, she dealt with major challenges, including the February 2023 cyberattack on the city’s IT system, the departure of the city’s last major league sports team after negotiations to keep the A’s in Oakland fell apart and a police misconduct scandal that ultimately led to Thao firing now-former police chief, Leronne Armstrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, one year into her term, two Oakland residents announced they were heading up an effort to recall Thao. Seneca Scott, a former candidate for mayor, and Brenda Harbin-Forte, a former superior court judge and former member of the city’s Police Commission, formed a campaign called Oakland United to Recall Sheng Thao, or OUST.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OUST says it was a mistake to fire Armstrong and they blame Thao for a rise in crime in the city in 2023. Crime rates are now declining, according to data reporting by the Oakland Police Department. OUST also says Thao has violated city and state ethics rules and points to three open Public Ethics Commission complaints alleging Thao misbehaved during her campaign for the 2022 mayoral election and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991242/fbi-agents-raid-home-of-oakland-mayor-sheng-thao\">FBI raid of her home\u003c/a> last June. PEC told KQED that two of the complaints are on hold, and one has progressed to an investigation. PEC staff places matters on hold when there is insufficient evidence or staffing to pursue it or when the issue raised is considered of lesser public interest. No criminal charges have been filed against Thao in relation to the FBI raid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of Thao say Oakland’s public safety challenges are decades old and not the fault of a mayor who’s been in office for less than two years. They say the recall is the work of people bitter that their preferred candidate didn’t win the 2022 mayoral election. \u003cspan style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">A wealthy Piedmont hedge-fund manager has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998651/a-hedge-fund-manager-is-funding-bid-to-oust-oaklands-mayor-and-its-not-his-first-recall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">predominantly funded the recall effort\u003c/a>\u003c/span>, and Thao supporters say OUST doesn’t reflect the interests or the will of the majority of Oakland voters. In the wake of the FBI raid, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991658/oakland-mayor-sheng-thao-to-make-first-public-comments-since-fbi-raids\">Thao maintains that she has not broken any laws\u003c/a> and is not the focus of the FBI probe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more on who supports and opposes the Thao recall, check out \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/alameda/oakland#mayor-recall\">our page on the Oakland mayor recall\u003c/a> election in KQED’s voter guide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland follows \u003ca href=\"https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/recalls/recall-procedures-guide.pdf\">state recall law\u003c/a>, which allows residents to recall an elected official on the ballot if they can collect signatures in support from 10% of registered city voters. In June, Oakland’s City Clerk announced the recall campaign had submitted enough valid signatures to place the issue on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>If the recall is successful, how will a new Mayor be chosen? Will there be an interim Mayor?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If Oakland voters recall Thao, the city council president will serve as interim mayor until the city holds a special election to select a replacement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It sounds simple, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, there’s a big catch. What makes the interim succession plan potentially more complicated is that the current city council president, Nikki Fortunato Bas, is involved in an election of her own. She’s running for Alameda County’s Board of Supervisors (You can also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/alameda/races#supervisor-5th-district\">check out that race in our election guide\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Fortunato Bas wins that election, a successful recall could set off what two UC Berkeley recall law experts call an “\u003ca href=\"http://www.law.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/The-Recorder-Oaklands-mayoral-carousel-reprint.pdf\">avoidable carousel of mayors\u003c/a>.” Fortunato Bas could hold the position for a short period, then pass it to the next council president, who would then hand it off to the winner of a special election — in other words, we could see three new mayors in the course of a few months. \u003cb>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cb>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>But that’s not the only possible scenario. Fortunato Bas could resign as council president, at which point the council would elect a new president who would then also serve as interim mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alternatively, Fortunato Bas could pass on the interim position while remaining the council president and another member of city council could be selected to fill the seat. That member would have to resign from their city council position to become interim mayor — which would set off another special election to fill their seat. They would also be barred from being a candidate in the special election for mayor.[aside postID=\"news_11991242,news_11991429,news_12001150\" label=\"Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Journalists at \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2024/09/16/heres-what-happens-if-oakland-mayor-sheng-thao-is-recalled/\">The Oaklandside also gamed out\u003c/a> some of the possible outcomes here, and they note that a lot of city council seats are in the running this November — check out the races for Oakland City Council Districts 1, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/alameda/oakland#city-council-district-3\">3\u003c/a>, 5, 7 and the at-large seat in our voter guide — so, only two current members of the council are guaranteed to be there in January. It’s possible that we would see a new face catapult from city council candidate to mayor of the city in a few short months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember, this is the first recall of an Oakland mayor in the city’s history. If it’s successful, anything after that will be a new, and likely bumpy, experience.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Big changes are coming to the Oakland Coliseum. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Next Thursday, the A’s will play their last home game there. And earlier this month, the stadium was sold to the African American Sports and Entertainment Group, whose vision for the land includes a $5 billion housing and business development. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Oaklandside’s Eli Wolfe explains what this sale means for the future of the Coliseum — and for the city of Oakland.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"card card--enclosed grey\">\n\u003cp id=\"embed-code\" class=\"inconsolata\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC3370689122&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:55] I’m Ericka Cruz Guevara and welcome to the bay. Local news to keep you rooted here. There’s really nothing like getting off the Oakland Coliseum. Bart, stop with a bunch of strangers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:15] And walking out the station with a crowd of people all heading in the same direction, whether that be for a concert. Or an A’s game. But what goes down at this 120 acre coliseum complex is going to change. Next week, the A’s will play their last game in Oakland. And even bigger changes are on the way after the city of Oakland finalized a deal to sell its share of the Coliseum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sheng Thao \u003c/strong>[00:02:00] Together with community, with leadership, when local government, with private sector, we’re coming together to say we demand we demand to see a better, stronger and more prosperous Oakland. And these are the seeds that we’re planting today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:16] The sale to the African-American Sports and Entertainment group marks the end of an era for the Oakland Coliseum. Today, the future of the Coliseum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Eli Wolfe \u003c/strong>[00:03:16] The Colosseum was first built in the 60s, and I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that it served literally tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions of fans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:31] Eli Wolfe is a city hall reporter for the Oakland side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Eli Wolfe \u003c/strong>[00:03:35] It’s been a home for obviously the Oakland A’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>TV announcer: \u003c/strong>[00:03:39] Oakland A’s have set a new American League record with their 20th consecutive win and this is a game nobody here will ever forget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Eli Wolfe \u003c/strong>[00:03:49] But also for many, many years, it was where the Raiders NFL team played.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>TV announcer \u003c/strong>[00:03:55] It’s at the 15 – he throws! Touchdown Raiders! Touchdown Raiders!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Eli Wolfe \u003c/strong>[00:04:01] And also the Warriors play better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>TV announcer: \u003c/strong>[00:04:05] The Golden State Warriors have pulled off the greatest upset in the history of the NBA playoffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Eli Wolfe \u003c/strong>[00:04:19] But the city lost three teams over about five years. And each time you lost one of these teams, I think you could sort of feel how irrelevant the Coliseum was becoming. It was this massive, I mean, truly massive piece of sports infrastructure in the middle of East Oakland. Once you have a stadium that has no sports teams playing in it, I mean, it really sticks out like this. A giant concrete thumb in the middle of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:46] And who exactly owned the Coliseum over the years?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Eli Wolfe \u003c/strong>[00:04:50] In recent years, the Coliseum has been jointly owned by the city of Oakland and Alameda County. So it was a publicly owned site that started to change a few years ago when Alameda County ended up selling its half of the Coliseum site to the A’s. It was a public private partnership for the Coliseum site. And I think one that made city officials a little bit uneasy. I think it’s easier to sort of negotiate with another public agency than a private developer. And we kind of saw what the drawbacks of that were when last year the A’s announced that they were leaving for Las Vegas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>TV newscaster: \u003c/strong>[00:05:35] After 56 years at the Oakland Coliseum. It is game over for the athletics in Oakland. The A’s announced this morning they will leave the East Bay in 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Eli Wolfe \u003c/strong>[00:05:44] And that created this awkward situation where the city owned a stake in a stadium site that was not going to have a sports team to play there. And their co-owner was the sports team that was leaving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:06:02] Now the Coliseum is being sold off. I mean, why is this happening now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Eli Wolfe \u003c/strong>[00:06:09] Even though this deal has been in the works for a while I think city officials would agree that this was a little bit expedited. And the reason it was is because Oakland was facing a severe budget shortfall this year. The budget that the city council approved back in July was relying on about $105 million from the sale, but about half of it would apply to this year’s budget. So the deadline that everybody was like nervously watching was whether the deal would get complete by September 1st. If it didn’t get complete by then, they were going to make a bunch of service cuts and layoffs to make sure that the budget is balanced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:06:57] Yeah. Now, let’s let’s talk about the sale. I know in the city of Oakland and the A’s have now sold the Coliseum to the African-American sports and entertainment group, as you mentioned. Who is this group? Can you tell me a little bit more about them?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Eli Wolfe \u003c/strong>[00:07:12] Yeah. So the African-American sports and entertainment group, if they were founded in 2020, they’re a black owned development firm. And their core mission really is to invest in sports and entertainment sites. They are co-founded by a guy named Ray Bobbitt. He’s an East Oak Wonder and he’s a big champion of the city. They got a lot of talent. They’ve got Robert Bobb, who’s a former city manager for Oakland. They have a developer named Allen Dones, who’s done the work all over the world. Bill Duffy, the former NBA player, and Travis Scott, who the former chair of the African-American Chamber of Commerce here. You know, their money comes from this company called Loop Capital, which is a black owned Chicago based investment firm. Last year when the city was announcing their exclusive negotiation agreement with the AASEG. One of the things that got noted at that time was this was going to be the biggest land transfer in Oakland history for a black owned firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Press conference intro \u003c/strong>[00:08:21] All right. Hello, everybody. Thank you for coming on Saturday night the city and has signed the purchase and sale agreement for their house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Eli Wolfe \u003c/strong>[00:08:30] Over the weekend, the city and the ACG announced that they had finalized the deal. They were bumping music. It was beautiful outside. You know, everyone there was just like in an extremely good mood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Press conference intro \u003c/strong>[00:08:43] Right now I’m going to start by bringing up Ray Bobbitt of African-American Sports and Entertainment Group. The guys up here grew up\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Eli Wolfe \u003c/strong>[00:08:57] Ray Bobbitt got up and thing pretty much everybody under the sun who had been working on the deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ray Bobbitt \u003c/strong>[00:09:02] Just wanted to start by thanking God for the opportunity. So that’s that’s very important. I waned to thank our entire community this has been a journey has been.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Eli Wolfe \u003c/strong>[00:09:13] It was sort of a victory lap for everybody who’d been involved in this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ray Bobbitt \u003c/strong>[00:09:17] The historic nature of a team that is from this community taking the stewardship of this incredibly iconic site. It’s a place that has represented so many important memories and so many important events for all of us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:09:34] It sounds like I imagine both sides are pretty happy about this deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Eli Wolfe \u003c/strong>[00:09:39] Yes, very much so for the mayor. For city officials, this isn’t just, you know, a giant economic engine that they’re sort of like jumpstarting in East Oakland. It’s also obviously, you know, a way to avoid really severe budget cuts this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sheng Thao \u003c/strong>[00:09:54] What a momentous occasion, everyone. I’m excited. Are you all excited?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Eli Wolfe \u003c/strong>[00:10:01] You know, Mayor Sheng Thao, you know, spoke before all the stakeholders and she talked about the fact that this was a momentous and truly historic occasion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sheng Thao \u003c/strong>[00:10:12] You know, many people thought institutional capital was fleeing Oakland. It’s not the case when you are able to be innovative and think outside the box. You know what the Coliseum is. You know that this is the place to be in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:31] I mean, what do we know, Eli, about what the African-American sports and entertainment group plans to do with the Coliseum?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Eli Wolfe \u003c/strong>[00:10:39] That is the big question. And we still don’t have a ton of details on it, unfortunately. They had a vision of bringing in major league sports teams like a WNBA team. On the development side, you know, they’ve they’ve previously outlined these plans to build like, hotels, restaurants, you know, an outdoor amphitheater. I also believe they don’t have any plans to remove or renovate the stadium. It’s possible that will change over time, but I think they want to keep those venues in part because, you know, at least like with the smaller arena, they they can still hold concerts there. And the city and the county were hosting concerts for a long time there. And that was a big source of money to spend. And in the meantime, ACG has also agreed to this term sheet where it says, you know, as part of whatever development we do here, we’re going to create a community benefits plan. That’s going to include labor agreements for any construction that they do workforce training for residents that they hire. They’ve also promised that they’re going to make sure that any housing that they build is 25% affordable. So there’s a lot that they’ve sort of promised on top of the payments that they’re they’re making.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:11:57] Yeah. I mean, it’s a huge, huge space . Mean whatever happens with it, I think it’s fair to say that it’s going to take years at least, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Eli Wolfe \u003c/strong>[00:12:07] Yeah. 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And earlier this month, the stadium was sold to the African American Sports and Entertainment Group, whose vision for the land includes a $5 billion housing and business development. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Oaklandside’s Eli Wolfe explains what this sale means for the future of the Coliseum — and for the city of Oakland.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"card card--enclosed grey\">\n\u003cp id=\"embed-code\" class=\"inconsolata\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC3370689122&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:55] I’m Ericka Cruz Guevara and welcome to the bay. Local news to keep you rooted here. There’s really nothing like getting off the Oakland Coliseum. Bart, stop with a bunch of strangers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:15] And walking out the station with a crowd of people all heading in the same direction, whether that be for a concert. Or an A’s game. But what goes down at this 120 acre coliseum complex is going to change. Next week, the A’s will play their last game in Oakland. 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Today, the future of the Coliseum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Eli Wolfe \u003c/strong>[00:03:16] The Colosseum was first built in the 60s, and I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that it served literally tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions of fans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:31] Eli Wolfe is a city hall reporter for the Oakland side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Eli Wolfe \u003c/strong>[00:03:35] It’s been a home for obviously the Oakland A’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>TV announcer: \u003c/strong>[00:03:39] Oakland A’s have set a new American League record with their 20th consecutive win and this is a game nobody here will ever forget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Eli Wolfe \u003c/strong>[00:03:49] But also for many, many years, it was where the Raiders NFL team played.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>TV announcer \u003c/strong>[00:03:55] It’s at the 15 – he throws! Touchdown Raiders! Touchdown Raiders!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Eli Wolfe \u003c/strong>[00:04:01] And also the Warriors play better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>TV announcer: \u003c/strong>[00:04:05] The Golden State Warriors have pulled off the greatest upset in the history of the NBA playoffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Eli Wolfe \u003c/strong>[00:04:19] But the city lost three teams over about five years. And each time you lost one of these teams, I think you could sort of feel how irrelevant the Coliseum was becoming. It was this massive, I mean, truly massive piece of sports infrastructure in the middle of East Oakland. Once you have a stadium that has no sports teams playing in it, I mean, it really sticks out like this. A giant concrete thumb in the middle of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:46] And who exactly owned the Coliseum over the years?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Eli Wolfe \u003c/strong>[00:04:50] In recent years, the Coliseum has been jointly owned by the city of Oakland and Alameda County. So it was a publicly owned site that started to change a few years ago when Alameda County ended up selling its half of the Coliseum site to the A’s. It was a public private partnership for the Coliseum site. And I think one that made city officials a little bit uneasy. I think it’s easier to sort of negotiate with another public agency than a private developer. 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I know in the city of Oakland and the A’s have now sold the Coliseum to the African-American sports and entertainment group, as you mentioned. Who is this group? Can you tell me a little bit more about them?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Eli Wolfe \u003c/strong>[00:07:12] Yeah. So the African-American sports and entertainment group, if they were founded in 2020, they’re a black owned development firm. And their core mission really is to invest in sports and entertainment sites. They are co-founded by a guy named Ray Bobbitt. He’s an East Oak Wonder and he’s a big champion of the city. They got a lot of talent. They’ve got Robert Bobb, who’s a former city manager for Oakland. They have a developer named Allen Dones, who’s done the work all over the world. Bill Duffy, the former NBA player, and Travis Scott, who the former chair of the African-American Chamber of Commerce here. You know, their money comes from this company called Loop Capital, which is a black owned Chicago based investment firm. Last year when the city was announcing their exclusive negotiation agreement with the AASEG. One of the things that got noted at that time was this was going to be the biggest land transfer in Oakland history for a black owned firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Press conference intro \u003c/strong>[00:08:21] All right. Hello, everybody. Thank you for coming on Saturday night the city and has signed the purchase and sale agreement for their house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Eli Wolfe \u003c/strong>[00:08:30] Over the weekend, the city and the ACG announced that they had finalized the deal. They were bumping music. It was beautiful outside. You know, everyone there was just like in an extremely good mood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Press conference intro \u003c/strong>[00:08:43] Right now I’m going to start by bringing up Ray Bobbitt of African-American Sports and Entertainment Group. The guys up here grew up\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Eli Wolfe \u003c/strong>[00:08:57] Ray Bobbitt got up and thing pretty much everybody under the sun who had been working on the deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ray Bobbitt \u003c/strong>[00:09:02] Just wanted to start by thanking God for the opportunity. So that’s that’s very important. I waned to thank our entire community this has been a journey has been.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Eli Wolfe \u003c/strong>[00:09:13] It was sort of a victory lap for everybody who’d been involved in this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ray Bobbitt \u003c/strong>[00:09:17] The historic nature of a team that is from this community taking the stewardship of this incredibly iconic site. It’s a place that has represented so many important memories and so many important events for all of us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:09:34] It sounds like I imagine both sides are pretty happy about this deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Eli Wolfe \u003c/strong>[00:09:39] Yes, very much so for the mayor. For city officials, this isn’t just, you know, a giant economic engine that they’re sort of like jumpstarting in East Oakland. 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And the city and the county were hosting concerts for a long time there. And that was a big source of money to spend. And in the meantime, ACG has also agreed to this term sheet where it says, you know, as part of whatever development we do here, we’re going to create a community benefits plan. That’s going to include labor agreements for any construction that they do workforce training for residents that they hire. They’ve also promised that they’re going to make sure that any housing that they build is 25% affordable. So there’s a lot that they’ve sort of promised on top of the payments that they’re they’re making.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:11:57] Yeah. I mean, it’s a huge, huge space . Mean whatever happens with it, I think it’s fair to say that it’s going to take years at least, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Eli Wolfe \u003c/strong>[00:12:07] Yeah. 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