The Oakland Athletics will be playing their last season in the city this year.
Starting from 2025, they will be playing three seasons in Sacramento (possibly four), before relocating to Las Vegas for good.
A’s fans are obviously heartbroken about losing the team they have rooted for during their entire lives.
They look like a Triple-A team now, but the A’s won have four World Series and six pennants since they landed in Oakland in 1968.
The 1970s A’s were something to behold, as was the late-1980s version.
Right now, however, the franchise is managed by people who prioritize the money over fan sentiment.
At least the current ownership will have a kind gesture toward fans in the final season of the franchise in Oakland.
“A’s announce they will celebrate fans, employees, and players past and present throughout the 2024 season as the team bids farewell to the Oakland Coliseum,” baseball reporter Jessica Kleinschmidt tweeted.
A’s announce they will celebrate fans, employees, and players past and present throughout the 2024 season as the team bids farewell to the Oakland Coliseum: pic.twitter.com/riwNRiN1hx
The A’s announced that the club will celebrate alumni and will have special tributes to players this year, in anticipation of the relocation.
Some of the special activities the organization has prepared are Double Play Wednesdays, Alumni Sundays, replica Coliseum giveaways, and the induction of the A’s Hall of Fame Class of 2024, on August 17.
There will be firework days, drone shows, and bobblehead giveaways for historical players such as Satchel Paige, Rollie Fingers, Jose Canseco, Vida Blue, and Rickey Henderson.
We are not sure how fans will take most of these initiatives, but it’s a small gesture in the middle of a mostly bitter goodbye.
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