The Oakland A’s on Thursday are ending more than a half-century of playing baseball at the Coliseum with one final home game.

The A’s host the Texas Rangers in a day game scheduled for 12:37 p.m. The team will hand out a replica version of the Oakland Coliseum to the first 25,000 fans who enter the stadium that hosted its first A’s games in 1968.

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Dan McMenamin is the managing editor at Bay City News, directing daily news coverage of the 12-county greater Bay Area. He has worked for BCN since 2008 and has been managing editor since 2014 after previously serving as BCN’s San Francisco bureau reporter. A UC Davis graduate, he came to BCN after working for a newspaper and nonprofit in the Davis area. He handles staffing, including coaching of our interns, day-to-day coverage decisions and management of the newswire.