{"id":21844,"date":"2025-01-18T03:36:55","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T09:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=21844"},"modified":"2024-12-22T14:27:44","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T20:27:44","slug":"ballpark-tour-as-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/ballpark-tour-as-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballpark Tour: A’s"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>With just under a month to go before pitchers and catchers start reporting to spring training camps, we continue our tour of all of the different baseball stadiums I’ve been to over the years. This week, we head to the Bay Area to look at the former Oakland A’s. So, without further ado, let’s take a deeper look at my history with the Oakland Coliseum.<\/p>\n

Stadium Name:<\/strong> McAfee\/Network Associates\u00a0Coliseum<\/p>\n

Years in Service:<\/strong> 1968 – Present<\/p>\n

Visits:<\/strong> 2<\/p>\n

The Oakland\u2013Alameda County Coliseum opened in 1966 as the home of the Oakland Raiders. \u00a0Two years later, Charlie Finley moved his A\u2019s from Kansas City to Oakland and became the baseball tenant of the stadium. \u00a0In 1998, the stadium became known as Network Associates Coliseum. \u00a0In mid-2004, Network Associates was renamed McAfee and the stadium was renamed McAfee Coliseum accordingly. \u00a0Following the 2008 season, the name reverted back to Oakland\u2013Alameda County Coliseum until April 27, 2011, when it was renamed Overstock.com Coliseum. Just over a month later, the Coliseum was renamed O.co Coliseum, after Overstock.com\u2019s marketing name.<\/p>\n

Both times I\u2019ve traveled to the Bay area, I\u2019ve taken in both Giants and A\u2019s games.\u00a0 My first trip to what at the time was called Network Associates Coliseum was on September 6, 1999 while I was out west visiting my friend Scott.\u00a0 The Tigers triumphed over the A\u2019s that day, and my one memory of the stadium is that the seats were not necessarily positioned in such a way as to face the field for baseball purposes.<\/p>\n

My second trip to the Bay area, for the JavaOne conference in 2008, actually started out with a BART trip out to Oakland for a 2-1 A\u2019s victory over the Orioles on May 5th.\u00a0 The A\u2019s had opened up three sections of the third deck as designated All-You-Can-Eat seats, where, for the price of the ticket, free ballpark fare was included.\u00a0 While I enjoyed the novelty of the free foodstuffs, the seats, while directly behind home plate, were horrible.\u00a0 Leaving early in order to catch the train back to San Francisco led to the problem of trying to get out of the stadium, since none of the gates were open.<\/p>\n

The A\u2019s bid this stadium, and the city of Oakland, farewell following the 2024 season.\u00a0 They plan to play their home games in Sacramento while a new stadium is being built in Las Vegas.\u00a0 The funding for said stadium isn’t as secure as MLB and the A’s would lead you to believe, so the future home of this franchise is anyone’s guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With just under a month to go before pitchers and catchers start reporting to spring training camps, we continue our tour of all of the different baseball stadiums I’ve been to over the years. This week, we head to the Bay Area to look at the former Oakland A’s. So, without further ado, let’s take […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[123,3655,3650,256,3632,608,2244,3651,3654,3649,50,3652,3598,661,230],"class_list":["post-21844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-as","tag-bart","tag-charlie-finley","tag-giants","tag-java-one","tag-mcafee-coliseum","tag-mlb","tag-network-associates-coliseum","tag-o-co-coliseum","tag-oakland-alameda-county-coliseum","tag-orioles","tag-overstock-com-coliseum","tag-raiders","tag-scott","tag-tigers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21844"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22299,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21844\/revisions\/22299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}