The Oakland Athletics have taken another significant step toward Nevada, retaining a major player in sports finance to broker a deal intended to provide team owner John Fisher with $500 million toward a new ballpark on the Las Vegas Strip. Nevada legislators last June approved $380 million in public funding toward the estimated $1.5-billion cost of the ballpark, with the …
Athletics owner John Fisher speaks at a news conference on Nov. 16, 2023, after MLB owners approved the team’s move to Las Vegas. In October, Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said an “adverse development with respect to that referendum … would be a significant development.” The cost of organizing a Nevada referendum — primarily to collect and submit signatures …
Oakland Athletics pitcher Mason Miller heads to the dugout before the start of a game against the Chicago Cubs in Oakland on Wednesday. If baseball mythology really came to life, if teams really were civic assets and owners really were stewards of those public trusts, Rob Manfred would have issued a starkly different statement when the Oakland Athletics decided they …
