ON AN ORDINARY THURSDAY in mid-June, Nevada Governor Joe Lombardo signed the bill that might have sealed the fate of the team that is currently the Oakland Athletics, securing $380 million in public funding to go toward a new baseball stadium in Nevada. 

Rendering of Major League Baseball (MLB) team, Athletics (A’s) proposed stadium at the Tropicana site in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Oakland Athletics via Bay City News)

Yet it wasn’t just this potentially catastrophic shakeup that was drawing national attention to the A’s that week, nor even the team’s poor play on the field that generated discussion. Instead, two days earlier on Tuesday, June 13, the team with the lowest payroll, lowest attendance and worst record in baseball, played in front of a raucous crowd in a packed Oakland Coliseum brought to life by its fans. 

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Benjamin Coleman is a recent graduate from UC Berkeley where he triple-majored in English, Political Science and Legal Studies with a Journalism minor. Benjamin spent four years as a sports reporter, podcast producer and sports editor for the Daily Californian. Benjamin joins Bay City News as a Dow Jones News Fund digital media intern. In his free time Benjamin is passionate about reading, watching movies and spending time outside.