WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Major League Baseball arrived in this city along the Sacramento River on Monday night, and it came bearing quirks.
The clubhouses in Sutter Health Park -- the home of the Athletics for at least the next three seasons -- are located beyond the wall in left-center field, the stadium holds about 14,000 people, and the designated interview room is a corrugated metal shed down the left-field line.
Those oddities meant little to the fans who filled the place for the A's home opener and first home game away from Oakland since 1967.