Does California Have A Stuart Symington Type Senator To Threat MLB Over Fisher’s A’s Move To Sacramento? [Video]

Sacramento is the next stop for John Fisher.

Major League Baseball’s Oakland Athletics owner John Fisher plans to use a minor league baseball park in Sacramento, California for his business’ home schedule for 2025, 2026 and 2027. It will be goodbye to Oakland forever for Fisher and maybe Major League Baseball. Fisher eventually wants to plant his business in Las Vegas. Various Oakland Athletics’ owners have been fed up with Oakland for about five decades and the franchise almost ended up in Denver in 1978 but Major League Baseball stopped the relocation. The Philadelphia Athletics franchise ended up in Kansas City in 1955 after being sold to Arnold Johnson following a 54-season run in Philadelphia. Charles Finley tried to get out of Kansas City soon after he bought the team from the Johnson estate in 1960. Finley moved the business to Oakland after the 1967 season.

Finley’s move caused a seismic shift in the world of Major League …