If you’re anything like me, you won’t be able to watch this year’s Major League Baseball (MLB) Opening Day without thinking about the Oakland (Sacramento?) A’s. Today, the Oakland Coliseum, worn and decaying and beautiful, will sit empty. Oakland baseball is no more. There’s a world where the story doesn’t have to end this way. What if, instead of a billionaire who doesn’t care much about the team, the ballpark workers, or the town, Oakland itself owned the A’s? What if instead of an owner roster that bears too much resemblance to the Forbes 400 list, all of baseball was publicly owned?
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What If Oakland Owned the A’s?
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If you’re anything like me, you won’t be able to watch this year’s Major League Baseball (MLB) Opening Day without thinking about the Oakland (Sacramento?) A’s. Today, the Oakland Coliseum, worn and decaying and beautiful, will sit empty. Oakland baseball is no more. There’s a world where the story doesn’t have to end this way. What if, instead of a billionaire who doesn’t care much about the team, the ballpark workers, or the town, Oakland itself owned the A’s? What if instead of an owner roster that bears too much resemblance to the Forbes 400 list, all of baseball was publicly owned?