Author William Cooper, who worked in the A's locker room from 1998-2003, writes for the S.F. CHRONICLE under the header, "The A’s will always belong to Oakland." The A's didn’t just play their last baseball game in Oakland, they "played their last baseball game -- period." The players who will play in Sacramento and then in Las Vegas "won’t be the A’s," as the "soul of the A’s belongs to Oakland." Baseball will soon be a "new, dazzling attraction on the Las Vegas Strip." But it "won’t be the A’s playing there, even if the uniforms happen to be green and gold."
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