The Oakland Athletics are a charter member of the American League, a franchise that dates to 1901, and in their nomadic century-plus of existence they've bounced from Philadelphia to Kansas City to Oakland. Now, they'll head to Las Vegas. With a pair of rubber stamps from the Nevada Assembly and Senate on Wednesday, all that is needed to make the Las Vegas A's a reality are approval from the governor of Nevada and the owners of the other 29 Major League Baseball teams, both at this point formalities.
They are the second team to move to Vegas from Oakland since the NHL's Golden Knights became the city's first major sports franchise.