After up-and-down year, can Oakland’s last pro baseball team make it work?

At the Oakland Ballers' opener, the A's are a distant memory

At the Oakland Ballers’ opener, the A’s are a distant memory The Ballers start their second season in West Oakland with a bang.

After up-and-down year, can Oakland’s last pro baseball team make it work?

OAKLAND – The line outside Raimondi Park started forming just before 4 p.m. — more than 2 1/2 hours prior to the start of the Oakland Ballers’ season-opening game. Just before the gates opened to fans at 5:30 p.m., the line had stretched over half a block down 20th St. By first pitch on Tuesday, close to 4,100 fans who had bought seats for the Ballers’ Opening Night game on an ideal 65-degree evening had jammed into the cozy West Oakland ballpar…

Sacramento Embraces A’s, For As Long As They’ll Stay

The Athletics, even if not by full name, are playing in Sacramento for this and two additional Major League Baseball seasons and drawing not only fans of the team but fans of the visiting team such as the New York Yankees. Photo by Matt Traub/SportsTravelOn one hand, the recent weekend series between the New York Yankees and the A’s looked like any other. Yankees fans made up most of the crowd, which is not uncommon for many of the team’s road t…