While fans will not be allowed at Oakland Athletics games this season due to the COVID-19 pandemic, RingCentral Coliseum will still feature one of the team’s most famous former employees: award-winning actor Tom Hanks.

Hanks, a Concord native, got his first job selling concessions to fans at the coliseum in his late teens.

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Eli covers public health, transportation and state politics for the Bay City News Foundation, serves as the main editor of the Public Health and COVID-19 Information Hub and assists with Local News Matters' social media strategy. He has also previously covered local politics in San Diego County as well as college and professional sports across the Bay Area.