Regardless of feedback suggesting the Oakland Athletics can be identified solely as “The Athletics” or “The A’s” when they move to Sacramento next season, the group seems to be contemplating different, extra conventional choices.
Public data obtainable from the USA Patent and Trademark Workplace present the Oakland Athletics trademarked two new names this previous Thursday, the “Sacramento Athletics” and the “Sacramento A’s.”
Does this imply they’ll use that title formally throughout the transient few years they’ll spend in California’s capital? No, under no circumstances.
Let’s assume the membership is useless set on utilizing “The Athletics” in 2025. Why would they then trademark a reputation they’ll by no means use? Effectively, it’d shield themselves and the league from another person scooping up the title and doing no matter they need with it. This additionally permits them to go ahead with that title (legally, anyway) ought to they alter their thoughts nearer to the season.
I nonetheless suppose the membership ought to use a geographic identifier moderately than being locationless as soon as the shift occurs. Sacramento Athletics, California Athletics, and even remaining because the Oakland Athletics are all higher choices than enjoying with out a market connected to them, in my view… however then once more, I don’t reside wherever close to the world, so what does it matter what I believe?
LINK: Oakland Athletics complete logo and uniform history
The Athletics will wrap up their fifty-seven seasons of enjoying in Oakland on the finish of the present 2024 Main League Baseball season. They’ll then transfer about 75 minutes northeast to their new house in Sacramento, the place they’ll play at Sutter Well being Park, at the moment house to the Triple-A River Cats, for the 2025 by means of 2027 seasons. In 2028, if the brand new stadium development goes based on plan, the Athletics will transfer to Las Vegas, Nevada, the place we assume they’ll play because the Las Vegas Athletics from that time ahead.
As soon as the A’s full their shifts to Sacramento and Las Vegas, the franchise may have relocated 4 instances all through its historical past—a document for a Main League franchise. The membership started within the American League’s first season in 1901 because the Philadelphia Athletics. They headed west in 1955 and continued on because the Kansas Metropolis Athletics till transferring to Oakland in 1968, Sacramento in 2025, and eventually(?) Las Vegas in 2028.
