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Last Out in Oakland October 02, 2024
The Oakland Coliseum, where the Athletics played baseball for 57 years until last Thursday, is beautiful to me, in the subjective way that anything you have loved for a long time is beautiful. But the stadium is not, factually speaking, nice to look ...
Goodbye to the A’s August 02, 2024
The familiar smells of street food, swamp water, and urine permeate the air as I cross the bridge that leads from the Coliseum BART station to the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum a few minutes before the first pitch of a July 19 matchup between the O...
The Kafkaesque Journey of the Oakland A’s May 21, 2024
The Oakland Coliseum, where the Athletics usually play, is a regular major-league baseball park, with a pitcher’s mound that measures sixty feet six inches from home and bases that are ninety feet apart. But other teams have shinier parks, with fewer...
When Fans Fight Back April 22, 2024
Opening Day possesses a ritual significance for baseball fans. Writing in The New York Times in April 1963, Roger Angell described Opening Day as “a ceremony of renewal and welcome” whose meaning, for baseball fans, is “psychic and profound”—an Easte...
