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OAKLAND, Calif. -- Growing up, Dave Stewart would ride his bicycle the mile or so from his family's Havenscourt Boulevard home to a gas station, where he would chain up his bike, walk down the train tracks, climb over a fence and enter what felt like a professional sports paradise.
Stewart, 66, came of age in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum was the home of champions. The Coliseum was where he watched the Oakland Raiders, where he cheered on the Oakland Athletics, and where he met Reggie Jackson, the A's superstar who sometimes left Stewart tickets or drove him home after games.