The Athletics' Vegas debut felt a lot like West Sacramento with extra glitz - ESPN
The inaugural but unofficial unveiling of the Las Vegas Athletics became, perhaps predictably, a theater of the absurd. Popups went up into the air and disappeared into the night. Ground balls popped off the ground without warning and bounded over infielders' heads. The A's traded a minor league home stadium in West Sacramento, California, for a minor league home stadium in the wind-swept desert and produced Major League Baseball as it was never intended.


