Posted on 11/16/2023 8:19:21 AM PST by fhayek
In 1901, when the American League was founded, the Philadelphia Athletics were one of the eight charter franchises. The A’s moved to Kansas City in 1955 and to Oakland in 1968, and they are on the move again.
No major league team has called four cities home, but the A’s are about to write a new and bittersweet page in baseball’s history book. Major league owners voted unanimously Thursday morning to approve the A’s move to Las Vegas, meaning a city that celebrated four World Series championships and nurtured Hall of Famers Reggie Jackson, Rickey Henderson, Catfish Hunter, Rollie Fingers and Dennis Eckersley soon will find itself without a baseball team to call its own.
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“Some of us remember the Philadelphia A’s, Washington Senators, Boston Braves, Chicago Cardinals, Baltimore Colts, St.Louis Browns, etc. But that was when America was still America.”
And don’t forget Washington Redskins, Cleveland Indians...
“Funny thing is, Las Vegas didn’t even exist when the Philadelphia Athletics was established (1901).
That is funny:
“1900. The population of Las Vegas, six years before it was founded as a city, was 22”
The collesium is very old and the A’s wanted a new stadium. But the city said no so off they go.
New York and Chicago really are the only cities that needs 2 baseball teams. And I’m not so sure about Chicago these days.
An earlier Cleveland baseball team was the Cleveland Spiders. When it folded Cleveland had a team named the Cleveland Naps
One of the Spider players had been a Penobscot Indian named Louis Sockalexis. He’s arguably the first American Indian to play MLB.
The story is that the fans took a liking to Sockalexis and they began referring to the Spiders as “the Indians”. This fan generated nickname stuck to subsequent Cleveland baseball teams and in 1915 the Naps renamed themselves the Indians, basically a hattip tribute to Sockalexis.
“The collesium is very old”
I went to a game there in August 1968. It wasn’t an appealing stadium even when it was new. I’m sure that age hasn’t improved it one bit.
The Cowboys left Dallas a long time ago, and moved to Irving, then Arlington.
The Bay Area doesn’t need two teams.
Any move from an American version of Mogadishu is a good move...
More proof that Oakland is a dirt hole place; Bay bridge pro hamas murders have shut down the bridge.
https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/protesters-shut-down-bay-bridge-westbound-traffic/
They are probably more A’s fans now living in Las Vegas than Oakland.
Much of Oakland is scary and dangerous, BUT this is still a stupid move. The Bay Area has a much larger population to support a team fanbase.
I see more A’s hats in Arizona than I do in the Bay Area these days, though. I’m assuming Vegas is the same.
Correct. That's important for TV ratings. Why not build the stadium in Fremont or something?
“There’s plenty of money in Las Vegas.”
Yes. But...water?
They are going to have to play all night games. What fan wants to sit for 3 hours in the Las Vegas summer sun?
For the past few years, the A’s focused on building a waterfront ballpark at Howard Terminal, a truly stupid site fpr a ballpark with no freeway access, no parking and no public transportation. On top of all that, they tied the project to a massive multibillion-dollar real estate development deal that would have included housing and commercial real estate. It was an asinine, pie-in-the-sky plan that had no possibility of ever coming to fruition. There were multiple opportunities to redevelop the Coliseum site with a new ballpark but the A’s turned their nose up at the idea.
My grandfather used to talk about having driven through the Vegas area in 1918, and there was practically nothing there. He marveled at what became of the town in the ‘50s, and used to joke that he probably could have bought prime real estate on the Strip for five bucks.
The way players move around these days, it's tough to get too attracted to a team roster as the following year half the players are new.
Never forget. Included in the “etc”.
Until some woke POS ruined that tribute.
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