SF News A's Legend Rickey Henderson Passes Away at 65 A two-time World Series Champion, 10-time All-Star, and 1990 American League MVP, Henderson is the all-time leader in career runs scored, leadoff home runs, stolen bases, and unintentional walks.
Bay Area Sports This Weekend Is the Last-Ever A’s-Giants ‘Bay Bridge Series’ Before the A’s Leave Rich with history, the SF Giants and Oakland A’s ‘Bay Bridge Series’ will play out its final iteration on Saturday and Sunday, as the A’s will play in Oakland for only another six weeks.
Bay Area Sports Giants Set to Use Facial Recognition on Fans, Privacy Advocates Say It’s a Slap in the Face Like it or not, facial recognition cameras are coming to gates at Oracle Park, in what Major League Baseball calls “hands-free” ticketing, but others call a “nuclear bomb of privacy.”
Bay Area Sports Oakland A’s Are Officially Moving to Sacramento for the Next Three Seasons This will in fact be the final season that the Oakland A’s play in Oakland, as the team officially announced Thursday morning that they’re moving to Sacramento to play in a rinky-dink minor-league ballpark while their Las Vegas stadium gets built.
Bay Area Sports Oakland Offers the A’s Five-Year Lease Extension for $97 Million to Keep Playing In Usually Empty Coliseum The Oakland A’s need a ballpark for the next three years while their proposed Las Vegas stadium is getting built, but the City of Oakland hopes to charge them nearly $100 million if they want to play those three years at the Oakland Coliseum.
Bay Area Sports Giants Season Preview: The Melvins Hope to Rock Harder Than Their Mediocre Expectations New SF Giants manager Bob Melvin has some freshly added weapons in reigning Cy Young winner Blake Snell and Korean superstar Jung Hoo Lee, as the Giants start their 2024 season Thursday against the San Diego Padres.
SF News Photo of SF Giants Player in New Official Uniform (And See-Through Pants) Goes Viral on Social Media A baseball reporter shared a picture of SF Giants' Casey Schmitt wearing the new MLB uniform on Thursday, and it left little to the imagination.
Bay Area Sports MLB Owners to Vote This Week on Whether Oakland A’s Can Relocate to Las Vegas A’s owner John Fisher faces his biggest hurdle yet this week, as Major League Baseball owners will vote on whether or not to approve his scheme to move the team to Las Vegas, but his plan still faces many potential curveballs even if the owners vote yes.
SF News Former MLB Player and Accomplice Arrested in Connection With Deadly 2021 Lake Tahoe Shooting Former pro pitcher Danny Serafini, 49, and another woman were arrested in Nevada for allegedly shooting Serafini’s mother-in-law and father-in-law inside their Tahoe home, which left the father-in-law dead and Tahoe area residents stunned.
Bay Area Sports Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao Had Secret Meeting With MLB Commissioner To Keep The A’s, But Struck Out Swinging Tuesday night’s MLB All-Star Game heard A’s fans chanting “Sell the team!,” but we’re also now learning of a secret meeting between Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao and MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred before the game, though Manfred balked at Thao’s case.
Bay Area Sports Giants to Play a Game on Willie Mays’s Hometown Field In Alabama Next Season It’s not the Field of Dreams game, but Major League Baseball is planning some “Specialty Games” to honor the legacy of the Negro leagues, and one of them will be the Giants playing on the very field where Willie Mays played for the Birmingham Black Barons.
Bay Area Sports Oakland A’s Fans Plan ‘Reverse Boycott’ At Tuesday Night’s Game To Protest Possible Las Vegas Move The elephant of Oakland Athletics fandom will roar Tuesday night, as an A’s-Rays game will see a “reverse boycott” intended to show Major League Baseball that Oakland has better fans than Las Vegas ever will.
Bay Area Sports The MLB Lockout Is Over! Giants Likely to Play Ball Starting April 8 We will still get a full 162-game season after all, as the MLB and the players’ union strike an unexpected and sudden tentative labor agreement, and the Giants' Home Opener looks likely to be April 8 against the Miami Marlins
Bay Area Sports Giants Opening Day Looks Likely to Be Delayed, as MLB Lockout Hits Its ‘Doomsday’ Date In negotiations described as ‘millionaires versus billionaires,’ Major League Baseball says they’ll start canceling regular season games if there’s no deal by February 28. It is now February 28, and there is no deal.
Bay Area Sports MLB Owners Unveil Plan to Bring Back Baseball July 4th, But Players Skeptical Under the proposal, the Giants could be playing here at Oracle Park, but of course without fans in the stands.
Bay Area Sports MLB Mulls Bringing Back Baseball, And What That Might Look Like There would be no fans in the stands, and under the “Arizona-Florida plan,” the Giants and A’s would be in the same division, and we would never play the Dodgers.
Bay Area Sports Oakland Backs Off A’s Stadium Lawsuit, Jack London Ballpark Plan Back On Track The umpteenth attempt to build a new Oakland A’s ballpark has revolved its latest setback, and the team will not threaten to move to Las Vegas again for at least another six months.
Bay Area Sports MLB Vaguely Threatens To Move A’s To Las Vegas If Oakland Doesn’t Drop Lawsuit It’s kind of a troll move with the Raiders already heading for Las Vegas, but the commissioner of Major League Baseball says the same could happen to the A’s.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland A's Choose A New Stadium Site (Again) This Time Near Lake Merritt The Oakland Athletics no longer rank dead last in Major League Baseball attendance. They now rank second-to-dead last, according to the latest Major League Baseball attendance report. The Oakland A’s are garbage.
Arts & Entertainment History: Donald Trump Tried To Buy The SF Giants Back In 1985 If you thought the San Francisco Giants 2010 world championship season was “Torture,” wait ‘til you contemplate an alternate history that kind-of almost came to pass. Local hardball blog McCovey Chronicles tags a
Arts & Entertainment A Giants Season Preview To Convince You They Will Win the World Series We stopped believin’ in the San Francisco Giants’ even-year championship magic on a heart-wrenching night last October. So all this faith, numerology, and baseball superstition regarding odd-numbered years being the Giants’ “off years”
Arts & Entertainment Giants Erect Statue to Gaylord Perry, Baseball's Most Beloved Cheater The Donald Trump statue and Tony Bennett statue were not the only new, chiseled sculptures unveiled in San Francisco last week. The San Francisco Giants unveiled a new statue Saturday of their Hall
Arts & Entertainment Nine Things You Need To Know For The Giants Home Opener Productivity will screech to a halt today across San Francisco today, as your San Francisco Giants play their home opener this afternoon at AT&T Park (first pitch at 1:35 p.
SF News Play Ball! Giants Spring Training Games Start Today, And Madison Bumgarner Shaved! The crack of the bat, the smell of the grass and all your favorite baseball clichés go back into effect today when the San Francisco Giants start their 2016 Cactus League games. Baseball
SF News Zito and Hudson Face Off Saturday in Historic Bay Area Bout The Giants and A's complete their inter-league schedule this weekend with a symbolic bow to the last 15 years of Bay Area baseball history. Saturday’s A’s-Giants pitching matchup will reunite Tim
