The 2024 season would be the final the Oakland Athletics play on the previous Coliseum.
Right now, following almost sixty years on the ballpark, the A’s introduced they’d be shifting their dwelling video games to Sutter Well being Park in Sacramento, California. The primary video games of their new dwelling will start with the beginning of subsequent season and proceed via the 2026 and 2027 seasons earlier than they transfer on to Las Vegas, Nevada, tentatively scheduled for 2028.
Sutter Well being Park, with a capability of 14,000, is at the moment dwelling to the Sacramento River Cats, the Triple-A affiliate of the San Francisco Giants (beforehand, the long-time affiliate of the Athletics). It could be, by far, the smallest venue within the Main Leagues, however this can be a non permanent answer, after all.
“We explored several locations for a temporary home, including the Oakland Coliseum,” defined A’s Proprietor and Managing Accomplice, John Fisher, in a press release launched to the media. “Even with the long-standing relationship and good intentions on all sides in the negotiations with Oakland, the conditions to achieve an agreement seemed out of reach. We understand the disappointment this news brings to our fans, as this season marks our final one in Oakland. Throughout this season, we will honor and celebrate our time in Oakland, and will share additional details soon.”
“We extend our appreciation to the Kings and the City of West Sacramento, and look forward to making Sutter Health Park our home until our new ballpark opens in Las Vegas.”
This information formally ends the period of Main League Baseball in Oakland, which started when the Kansas City Athletics moved to the Bay Space following the 1967 season. The A’s drew the eye of baseball followers worldwide with their wildly-coloured bright gold and green uniforms, white sneakers, and nicknames as a substitute of final names on the again of jerseys. As I fell in love with baseball within the late Eighties, the Oakland Athletics have been by far the crew I feared probably the most, a string of three-straight American League championships led by Rickey Henderson, Dennis Eckersley, Mark McGwire, Jose Canseco, and Dave Stewart, together with a World Sequence Championship in 1989.
As of but, there are not any particulars about what the crew could be known as — if they’d tackle the identify Sacramento Athletics or follow utilizing Oakland. In the event that they do certainly change their identify, it might be the fourth location this franchise has used for his or her identify (following Philadephia, Kansas Metropolis, and Oakland), just for them so as to add a fifth (Las Vegas) in three years time.
I made a tongue-in-cheek suggestion yesterday (which far too many took as a critical pitch) to name the crew the California Athletics, however this was principally simply an excuse to carry again the old “CA” Angels logo from the ’90s.
Don’t hate me for this, A’s followers — I’m not the enemy; I identical to logos.
You must be sincere, although, it might be a heck of an improve over the Sacramento A’s brand that was trademarked and rapidly deserted again within the Nineteen Nineties (no, not by the Oakland A’s):
You’ll be able to’t get extra “I made a logo in Microsoft Word and then printed it on my dot matrix in the ’90s” than this, youngsters.
In any case, now’s nearly as good a time as any to look again on the Oakland Athletics brand and uniform historical past from 1968 to 2024.
