bizofbaseball.com - 11/20/2008
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Over a year and a half in the making, the A's have finally seen some movement on the long-awaited Environmental Impact Report process for the proposed 32,000 seat facility located on 226-acres of land in the Pacific Commons area in Fremont. (see details and computer renderings of Cisco Field)
The Matt Holliday Deal and Its Ramifications
athleticsnation.com 11/10/2008 — So the A's have acquired a big bat in the Rockies Matt Holliday . And he's right-handed. And he's young. The A's haven't acquired someone like this since they landed Jermaine Dye and they had Giambi and Dye powering them towards ...
Oakland Athletics : The Drumbeat :
sfgate.com 11/24/2008 — SFGate.com Quick Search Home | News | Sports | Business | Entertainment | Food | Living | Travel Classifieds | Jobs | Homes | Cars SFGate: Oakland Athletics : The Drumbeat Main | About | Bios | Contact Subscribe Athletics Newsletter Categories 3-Blog ...
A's, KTRB Announce Radio Partnership
bizofbaseball.com 1/6/2009 — The Oakland Athletics and KTRB Radio 860 AM have agreed to terms on a one-year contract for the station to serve as flagship of the A’s Radio Network for the upcoming 2009 season. Financial terms were not released. KTRB, a San Francisco-based station featuring a daily talk format, will ...
mercurynews.com 2/23/2009 — Following thunderous community opposition, the owner of the Oakland A's has moved to the brink of abandoning plans for a new stadium in Fremont, leaving at least one San Jose councilman hopeful that the major league baseball team will turn to his ...
The Athletics at Fremont
shysterball.blogspot.com 11/7/2008 — There's still some counting to do, but it looks like Fremont, California Mayor Bob Wasserman is surviving his reelection bid . This is significant because Wasserman has been all about the A's new ballpark village, while his two challengers either (a) ...
Economy to Stall Fremont A’s Plans?
baseballprospectus.com 11/24/2008 — Matt Holliday had better love Mount Davis : The San Jose Mercury News reports this morning that the ongoing economic cataclysm could put the kibosh on the Oakland A’s plans for a new stadium in Fremont, at least for now.
As I reported for ...
It May Be Time To Bid Lowe
athleticsnation.com 11/12/2008 — As wretched as the A's offense has been lately and as solid as the pitching has been for years, it is counter-intuitive to think that if the A's plan to contend in 2009 they most urgently need to use their resources to add a starting pitcher, not ...
Fremont A’s RIP? Athletics Ask City to Stop Ballpark Village Plans
bizofbaseball.com 2/21/2009 — Is the grand plan in Fremont dead for the A's? (CLICK TO SEE IN LARGER VIEW) In 2007, with the club saying all their options were exhausted in Oakland, the Athletics embarked on an ambitious plan to build a “ballpark village” to the south in Fremont. Now, it appears, that plan has dried ...
The A's Aren't Moving to Fremont
mlb.fanhouse.com 2/24/2009 — by Tom Fornelli The Oakland Athletics have had plans on moving about a half hours drive south on I-880 to Fremont for quite a while now. After being unable to get a new stadium in Oakland, the team was prepared to make the move and play in the Bay ...
mercurynews.com 2/25/2009 — With the demise of the Oakland A's ballpark plans in Fremont, San Jose with a viable downtown stadium site, a big-city redevelopment agency and supportive politicians emerged Tuesday as the Bay Area's leading candidate to snare the team. But with ...
Chavez expects to be ready for spring —
Major League Baseball News 11/19/2008
A's third baseman Eric Chavez, who has played hurt or not at all for the last three seasons, says his latest rehab from surgery is going well and that he fully expects to be healthy and ready to go for the start of Spring Training next year.