Athletics owner John Fisher speaks during a news conference after a Major League Baseball owners meeting in Arlington, Texas, Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023. The Oakland Athletics’ move to Las Vegas was unanimously approved Thursday by Major League Baseball team owners, cementing the sport’s first relocation since 2005.
In a Monday email nobody asked for, Oakland A’s owner John Fisher managed to misspell one of the most memorable moments in franchise history.
The typo happened just three paragraphs into the solipsistic letter to the fans, where, after reminiscing about Charlie Finley and his mule Charlie-O, Reggie Jackson, Rollie Fingers, Billy King, and Rickey Henderson, he brought up “the 1989 Loma Preita earthquake in Game 3 of the Bay Bridge Series.”
Beyond the basic “I........