Athletics is dropping “Oakland” from their name ahead of the move to West Sacramento
The Oakland Athletics are officially no more.
The team sent out new brand guidelines on Monday, specifying what they want the club to be called going forward.
“When referring to the team name, please use only ‘Athletics.’ You may use ‘A’s’ for the second reference,” the email said.
The team has a new designation, ATH, and will play at Sutter Health Park in West Sacramento (not Sacramento). The new logo will be the well-known “A’s”, but in green.
After 57 years in Oakland, the A’s played their final game at the Coliseum on September 26, winning 3-2 against the Texas Rangers in front of 46,886 fans.
The team’s plan, announced in April, is to play in West Sacramento for three or possibly four years before moving to Las Vegas. The A’s will share the 14,000-capacity Sutter Health Park with the Triple-A Sacramento River Cats.
This is the latest step in the history of the Athletics franchise, which started in Philadelphia in 1901 before moving to Kansas City in 1955 and then to Oakland in 1968.
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