Former A's star Reggie Jackson rips city of Oakland as Athletics prepare to move to Las Vegas

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Reggie Jackson may be wearing a New York Yankees cap on his plaque in Cooperstown, but he spent nine of his 21 Hall of Fame seasons in Oakland with the Athletics.

Jackson was a perennial MVP candidate with the A's, winning one in 1973. His number 9 is retired by the organization he won three straight World Series with from 1972 to 1974.

But the A's will soon be history in Oakland and headed to Las Vegas.

The Athletics are following the NFL's Raiders to Vegas. The Raiders moved there in 2020 after spending the previous 25 seasons in the Bay Area. They called Oakland home from 1960-1981 before moving to Los Angeles.

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Reggie Jackson carries the World Series trophy during a ceremony honoring the 50-year reunion of the World Series champion 1973 Oakland Athletics before an A's game against the New York Mets at RingCentral Coliseum April 16, 2023, in Oakland, Calif.  (Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)

The A’s had long been rumored to be leaving the city of Oakland as the team and the city have been unable to come to an agreement on a new ballpark. Once a sports town with three teams — the NHL's San Jose Sharks are less than an hour drive from Oakland — it will soon have zero.

An Oakland legend, Jackson ripped the city for which he hit 146 of his 563 career homers for not only losing his A's, but everybody else.

"You’re going to lose the team," Jackson told Sportico in a recent interview. "The city, I thought, really needed to do something. Save the A’s. You lost the [Golden State] Warriors. You lost the Raiders. What the hell’s wrong with you? You can’t see that coming? The fans don’t deserve