Oakland Fans Say Goodbye to A’s Baseball During Final Home Games In the Coliseum

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🗓️ 24 September 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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The day many Bay Area baseball fans have dreaded for years is finally upon us: Thursday will be the final A’s game at the Oakland Coliseum. The team has had a historic 57-season run at the stadium leaving fans with decades of memories along with buckets of tears and rage. Next spring, they plan to play in a temporary home in Sacramento and eventually end up in Las Vegas. Team owners have talked about moving the A’s for nearly two decades and have disinvested in players and yet, many A’s fans stayed loyal. So, how are they feeling as the final goodbye looms? What will they miss most? Who will stick with the team after they move? We talk about the future of the A’s and what they have meant to Oakland and to you. Guests: Melissa Lockard, senior editor and staff writer, The Athletic; founder, the Oakland Clubhouse; a lifelong A's fan Pendarvis "Pen" Harshaw, columnist, KQED Arts & Culture Andy Dolich, sports consultant for the Oakland A's from 1980 to 1994; co-author, "Goodbye, Oakland: Winning, Wanderlust, and a Sports Town’s Fight for Survival" Kendrick Thompson, beer vendor at the Oakland Coliseum also known as "Ice Cold Kenny Bo" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:08.3	The era of Major League professional sports in Oakland comes to an end on Thursday. A town that was once home to three storied franchises
1:12.7	loses the last of them, the Oakland Athletics, when the A's play their last game at the
1:17.5	Colise before an eventual move to Las Vegas. Fans are sad, fans are mad, and the microeconomies
1:23.5	that grew up around big games in Oakland, the hot dog vendors, the ticket scalpers,
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