Unlike many of the great readers and fans of Athletics Nation, I am neither a Bay Area native nor am I a lifelong Oakland Athletics fan. I grew up in New Jersey and moved to South Florida as a teen with my parents. The A’s first seriously blipped my radar screen when they beat my Mets in the 1973 World Series. I was eleven and knew three things for sure; they were really good, they were fun to watch, and they had the coolest uniforms on the planet. The seed was planted. In 1999 I moved my young family to San Jose.
A Final Trip to the Coliseum
