In mere days, the Athletics will play their final home game in Oakland after 56 years. Their next one after that will be on March 31 in West Sacramento against the Chicago Cubs, and that still seems hard to believe.
In the 1980s and 1990s, more than one Sacramento leader tried hard to bring Major League Baseball to the state capital and failed.
Now it’s happening via a rental agreement, a temporary arrangement, maligned by most everyone outside of the Sacramento region that inherits a decaying franchise. The A’s won four World Series Championships in Oakland during the 20th century but have faded to irrelevance in recent years as the Athletics owners and the city of Oakland ground toward a public divorce , years in the making.
Opinion
The only reason the A’s are a big story now is that they are relocating to a minor league park in West Sac, on their way to a permanent home in Las Vegas that may or may not materialize. When that news broke in early April, a sports media that treated the A’s as a second-tier story suddenly looked in their direction.