Oakland, the only major league city on the West Coast with a large Black community, is about to lose the A's and that doesn't sit well with former players.
The owners of the Oakland Athletics are not giving politicians a chance to move forward on a Las Vegas move. Rob Manfred and MLB should get involved.
Amid this year’s All-Star celebration, MLB appears poised to abandon the only West Coast major league city with a significant Black community.. That figure ranges from 3%-9% in Los Angeles, Anaheim, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle and Phoenix.from Oakland, but MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred says the league will continue its initiatives to support youth participation and player training there and elsewhere.
The kids who played with the likes of Stewart and Willis may have not advanced to college or professional baseball, but the biggest factor in determining if you become a lifelong fan is whether you play as a kid. Willis is not as sure that baseball can maintain its fan base in the East Bay once the A’s leave and kids cannot see a game in their neighborhood.The San Francisco Giants are a ferry or subway ride away. For that matter, so are the Golden State Warriors, who moved to San Francisco from Oakland. Both the Giants and Warriors put up new venues without taxpayer funding.
When the A’s won three consecutive World Series — in 1972, ‘73 and ‘74 — he said the championships put the city in a desperately needed positive light. with a ballpark at its heart, no matter how difficult negotiations might have been over the hundreds of millions of dollars in infrastructure requests the team made of the city.
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