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LETTER: Handouts for the Oakland A’s

Recent letters and articles mentioning the low attendance of the Oakland A’s allude to a lack of interest from Oakland fans. But the reason for the attendance issue is a lack of spending by the A’s owner. Players who mature into stars are traded rather than signed to long-term deals. And now the A’s are lobbying for public money to build a Vegas ballpark? How about billionaire owners spend their own money and invest in ballparks and players to attract fans?

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