After 57 years in Oakland, the A's are once again relocating. A lot of fans are bummed about the team moving, because outside of their early years in Philadelphia, their best years came during their time in Oakland. The short answer: one of the key pieces to the best run in A's history from 1972-1974 was from Mansfield, Louisiana. Who Was Vida Blue?

California Bay Area sports anchor Larry Beil sounded off on Oakland Athletics owner John Fisher in a powerful on-camera tirade. Beil blasted Fisher for his failure at keeping the A's in the city, during an on-camera report on ABC7 News TV in Oakland. Beil took exception to Fisher's statement to fans, released just days before the Athletics are set to play their final game at the Coliseum.

Despite both AL West rivals being completely out of the playoff running, the upcoming series will hold a deeper meaning for a lot of disenfranchised baseball fans. Amidst a tumultuous and dramatic tenure for owner John Fisher in opposition with Athletics fans, which culminated in this somber season after years of dashed hopes and broken promises, the A's will be moving on after this series to a temporary home in Sacramento before finding a permanent home in Las Vegas after 57 seasons in Oakland. For that reason, the Rangers will find themselves as the underdogs against the fourth Place Oakland Athletics.

Texas Rangers (74-82, third in the AL West) vs. Oakland Athletics (67-89, fourth in the AL West) Oakland, California; Tuesday, 9:40 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Rangers: Nathan Eovaldi (11-8, 3.96 ERA, 1.13 WHIP, 154 strikeouts); Athletics: Mitch Spence (8-9, 4.30 ERA, 1.36 WHIP, 119 strikeouts) : LINE Rangers -119, Athletics -100; over/under is 7 1/2 runs BOTTOM LINE: The Oakland Athletics look to end their five-game home slide with a victory over the Texas Rangers. Oakland has a 67-89 record overall and a 36-42 record in home games. The Athletics have a 33-64 record in games when they have allowed a home run. Texas has a 74-82 record overall and a 30-45 record in road games. Rangers hitters

Texas Rangers (74-82, third in the AL West) vs. Oakland Athletics (67-89, fourth in the AL West) Oakland, California; Tuesday, 9:40 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Rangers: Nathan Eovaldi (11-8, 3.96 ERA, 1.13 WHIP, 154 strikeouts); Athletics: Mitch Spence (8-9, 4.30 ERA, 1.36 WHIP, 119 strikeouts) BETMGM SPORTSBOOK: LINE Rangers -119, Athletics -100; over/under is 7 1/2 runs BOTTOM LINE: The Oakland Athletics look to end their five-game home slide with a victory over the Texas Rangers. Oakland has a 67-89 record overall and a 36-42 record in home games. The Athletics have a 33-64 record in games when they have allowed a home run. Texas has a 74-82 record overall and a 30-45 record in road games.

With the A's down to just three games left to play in Oakland, team owner John Fisher finally addressed and apologized on Monday for the team's departure from Oakland. This upcoming series with the Texas Rangers will be the final games of the A's storied 57 years in Oakland.

The end of the Oakland A's time at the Oakland Coliseum is quickly approaching, with the team set to begin its final home series on Tuesday and play its final game at the stadium on Thursday. Ahead of the team's move to West Sacramento and subsequent move to Las Vegas, John Fisher and the rest of the organization are planning a promotional giveaway for the first 25,000 fans in attendance. The Athletics intend to give out miniature replicas of the Coliseum to fans in attendance for Thursday's game, however, the model stadiums won't be redeemable until fans leave the game and the promotion won't be available until after the seventh inning. In other words, fans felt as if the promotion was aiming

Oakland Athletics owner John Fisher says he is “so very sorry” that the franchise is moving after 57 years, but fans aren't buying it. Fisher penned an open letter to the Athletics fanbase that he released on Monday in which he looked back on the triumphs and more memories from the past half century. “This upcoming series with the Texas Rangers will be the final games of the A's storied 57 years in Oakland,” his letter began. “And while the A's previously played in Philadelphia and Kansas City, Oakland has been home for the greatest era in the franchise's more than 123-year history.”

A's team owner John Fisher shared a letter to the fanbase on Monday, his first statement to fans since announcing in April that the team was moving to Sacramento, and misspelled one of the most memorable moments in franchise history. Fisher, who likely won't attend the A's final game at the Oakland Coliseum on Thursday, begins the letter with a bland three-paragraph summary of the team's history in Oakland, incorrectly spelling the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake as “Loma Preita” in the process.

In his tiny office at the Coliseum, longtime visiting clubhouse manager Mikey Thalblum pulls out a $5 check from Charles Finley dated March 20, 1980. Thalblum was just a baseball-loving boy then, having begun with the Oakland Athletics at spring training in 1980 as a sixth-grader at Pueblo Elementary, just a few miles from Scottsdale Stadium. “I showed up after school to help fold the laundry, vacuum and clean the place,” the 57-year-old Thalblum said.

Few fan bases in baseball have needed to endure a tumultuous ownership situation quite like A's fans after what John Fisher has put Oakland through. Between the lack of investment in the on-field product, a stadium in disrepair and th

In his tiny office at the Coliseum, longtime visiting clubhouse manager Mikey Thalblum pulls out a $5 check from Charles Finley dated March 20, 1980. Thalblum was just a baseball-loving boy then, having begun with the Oakland Athletics at spring training in 1980 as a sixth-grader at Pueblo Elementary, just a few miles from Scottsdale Stadium. “I showed up after school to help fold the laundry, vacuum and clean the place,” the 57-year-old Thalblum said. Thalblum called AAA roadside assistance to sign up for insurance and she drove to the ballpark in 1991 by his best recollection, “that way she didn't have to take a day off work by coming to sign me up here.”

Sometimes, Leland Anderson steals a quick glance high into the stands above left field and finds his wife Sandy in section 237 for a wave and a smile. The Andersons have always loved baseball, so once their four sons had grown and retirement came along, the couple from California's Central Valley soul-searched about what they would do next. Like the Andersons, so many longtime Coliseum employees have built lasting memories at the ballpark, which is set to host a sellout crowd for the final scheduled A's game here on Thursday. The club has played in Oakland since 1968 and plans to call Sacramento home for at least the next three years before a scheduled move to Las Vegas ahead of the 2028 season.

Aaron Judge hit his major league-leading 55th homer of the season, Gleyber Torres and Jasson Domínguez also went deep and the Yankees beat the Oakland Athletics 7-4 on Sunday for a three-game sweep that moved New York to the verge of an AL East title. Yankees: RHP Clarke Schmidt (5-4, 2.37 ERA) is scheduled to start Tuesday night against Orioles RHP Dean Kremer (7-10, 4.19).

Many longtime Oakland Athletics employees are still working in their 70s, 80s and even 90s because they love being part of the games and cherish the community aspect of coming to work at a place with such history.

Thousands of A's fans packed into the Coliseum this past weekend as the team is approaching what is likely to be their final game ever in Oakland on Thursday. "It just feels like a punch in the gut for them to be leaving," said baseball fan Alicia Valenzuela. "It doesn't seem real, but it is," said former A's executive Andy Dolich. Now just three more games are scheduled in Oakland before the team finishes the season in Seattle.

At Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum on Tuesday, the Oakland Athletics (67-89) take on the Texas Rangers (74-82), fellow members of the AL West, at 9:40 p.m. ET. A projected tight matchup features the Rangers (-117 moneyline odds to win) against the Athletics (-101). The Rangers will start Nathan Eovaldi (11-8) versus the Athletics and Mitch Spence (8-9). The Rangers won 6-5 over the Mariners Sunday in their last game.

Aaron Judge hit his major league-leading 55th homer of the season, Gleyber Torres and Jasson Domínguez also went deep and the Yankees beat the Oakland Athletics 7-4 on Sunday for a three-game sweep that moved New York to the verge of an AL East title. Already assured of a playoff berth, the Yankees (92-64) can clinch the division with one victory over second-place Baltimore (86-70) during a three-game series in the Bronx that starts Tuesday night. New York opened a two-game lead over Cleveland for homefield advantage throughout the AL playoffs.

The Athletics are one of the eight original members of the American League, but permanence has never been their thing. Thirteen dismal seasons in Kansas City (the A's never had even a .500 season in Missouri). Next season the A's won't identify with any location. Wednesday marks the A's final game in Oakland.

A Linden, Calif., native, Aaron Judge grew up a San Francisco Giants fan. But that didn’t stop him from visiting the home of the Bay Area’s other team, the Oakland Athletics. Earlier this season, Judge said that he and his future wife, Samantha, went to the Oakland Coliseum for dates. He also remembers watching the Yankees there years before he would star for them, and the club invited the ...