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The Oakland Athletics, often referred to as the A's, are an American professional baseball team based in Oakland, California. The Athletics compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) West division. The team plays its home games at the RingCentral Coliseum. Throughout their history, the Athletics have won nine World Series championships.
The RingCentral Coliseum, historically and often commonly referred to as the Oakland Coliseum, is a multi-purpose stadium in Oakland, California, United States, which is home to the Oakland Athletics of Major League Baseball (MLB). The stadium opened in 1966 and was the last remaining stadium in the United States shared by professional football and baseball teams having done so from 1968 until 2019. From 1966 until 1981 and again from 1995 until 2019, the stadium was home of the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League. It was also the home of the Oakland Invaders of the United States Football League from 1983 to 1985. In addition, the Coliseum was also home to some games of the San Jose Earthquakes of Major League Soccer in 2008–2009 and hosted games of the 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup. The Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum complex consists of the stadium and the neighboring Oakland Arena.
The East Bay is the eastern region of the San Francisco Bay Area and includes cities along the eastern shores of the San Francisco Bay and San Pablo Bay. The region has grown to include inland communities in Alameda and Contra Costa counties. With a population of roughly 2.5 million in 2010, it is the most populous subregion in the Bay Area.
Laney College is a public community college in Oakland, California. Laney is the largest of the four colleges of the Peralta Community College District, which serves northern Alameda County. Laney College is named after Joseph Clarence Laney. The college offers both certificates and credits for Associate of Arts degree, as well as prerequisites to transfer to four year universities. It is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.
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Mount Davis, or Mt. Davis, is a section of 20,000 capacity seating at the Oakland Coliseum in Oakland, California, United States. It was built in 1995 at the behest of Oakland City Council with the intent of bringing the Los Angeles Raiders American football team back to Oakland and is named after former Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis. Since 2006, the top-tier seating of Mount Davis has been covered by tarpaulin during all Oakland Athletics baseball games, and the Oakland Raiders followed suit in 2013.
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The Oakland Estuary is the strait in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, separating the cities of Oakland and Alameda and the Alameda Island from the East Bay mainland. On its western end, it connects to San Francisco Bay proper, while its eastern end connects to San Leandro Bay.
The station complex of Amtrak's Oakland Coliseum station and Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART)'s Coliseum station is located in the East Oakland area of Oakland, California, United States. The two stations, located about 600 feet (180 m) apart, are connected to each other and to the RingCentral Coliseum/Oakland Arena sports complex with an accessible pedestrian bridge.
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The Alameda Mole was a transit and transportation facility in Alameda, California for ferries landing in the East Bay of San Francisco from 1878 to the 1930s. It was located on the west end of Alameda, and later became part of the Alameda Naval Air Station. It was one of four neighbouring moles. The others were the Oakland Mole, the WP Mole, and the Key System Mole. The purpose of the mole was to extend tracks of rail-based transportation lines beyond the shallow mud flats along the shore of the East Bay into water deep enough to accommodate the passenger and rail ferries to San Francisco.
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Rebecca Dawn Kaplan is an American politician and a member of the Democratic Party. She currently serves as City Councilmember At-Large for Oakland, California and finished second in the race for Oakland mayor in the November 2014 election. She previously ran for Oakland mayor in 2010 and placed third.
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David A. Kaval is the seventh and current president of the Oakland Athletics of Major League Baseball. He previously served as president of Major League Soccer club San Jose Earthquakes and founded the Golden Baseball League.
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Lynn Family Stadium is a soccer-specific stadium in the Butchertown neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky, United States. It has hosted Louisville City FC of the USL Championship (USLC) since it opened in 2020 and Racing Louisville FC of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) since 2021. The venue has 11,700 permanent seats, with expansion for up to 15,304 spectators, and began construction in 2018. It is the largest stadium by total capacity built specifically for a current USLC team.
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- ↑ "Proposed East Bay Soccer team wants a piece of Oakland Coliseum Complex" . Retrieved March 30, 2018.
- ↑ "Developer pitches pro soccer stadium, hotel complex for Concord" . Retrieved January 26, 2018.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- ↑ "USL East Bay Concord stadium project dropped by owner Mark Hall". May 14, 2020. Retrieved September 15, 2020.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)