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Baseball
Two-thirds of Clark County voters supported the Oakland Athletics’ ballpark plan after hearing arguments against it.
The attendance for the Oakland Athletics’ game Monday against the Arizona Diamondbacks was the lowest total in Major League Baseball since 1997.
Employees at the Tropicana received mixed messages about when the property may temporarily close as the Oakland Athletics’ Las Vegas ballpark plan continues to take shape.
The owners of the Tropicana want to see a $1.5 billion, 30,000-seat ballpark built on their site.
The Oakland Athletics and the Culinary Union 226 have struck a deal on potential Las Vegas stadium workers having the right to union contracts.
Golden Knights owner Bill Foley is ready to welcome the Oakland Athletics as a new neighbor on the Strip.
Plans for the A’s $1.5 billion, 30,000-seat stadium at the Tropicana resort site call for the baseball diamond to face northwest.
Plans call for the Tropicana to be demolished, with the A’s set to build a partially retractable roof ballpark on nine of the 35 acres of the south Strip site.
The Oakland Athletics said the language Glen Kuiper used while describing a trip to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum was “unacceptable.”
Las Vegas has a rich tradition of producing talented baseball players. Here’s the Review-Journal’s top five MLB players from Las Vegas, led by Greg Maddux.
Derek Stevens owned the 51s for five seasons. He’s bullish on the Athletics in Vegas.
Las Vegas is seeking to keep the NFR in Las Vegas, with some seeing the Oakland Athletics’ planned Southern Nevada ballpark as a potential landing spot.
Phil Ruffin and the A’s were working on a deal for the 37-acre Las Vegas Festival Grounds site located on the southwest corner of Las Vegas Boulevard and Sahara Avenue.
Greg Maddux says an MLB team would follow the popularity of the Raiders, Golden Knights and Aces.
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