In a letter to the head of Major League Baseball, members of the Oakland City Council said they are willing to work with the A’s baseball team to keep it from moving out of the city.

Oakland recently lost both of its other major league teams, when the National Football League franchise Raiders departed for Las Vegas and the National Basketball Association’s Golden State Warriors moved across the Bay to San Francisco.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.