OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) — Oakland’s latest baseball workforce is getting a really large piece of Bay Space historical past as reward from BART.
The Ballers are retrofitting a legacy BART automotive that was delivered to the ballpark on Thursday morning into a brand new concession stand for the park. The automotive was loaded onto a flatbed monitor in Hayward earlier than being pushed over to Raimondi Park.
This long-standing piece of Bay Space historical past that had been used for the previous 50 years to move passengers throughout the Bay Space was retired final April.
Over the subsequent yr, the automotive might be saved off-site whereas it is being remodeled right into a concession stand.
The Ballers plan to unveil the BART automotive subsequent season.
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BART says this actual legacy automotive arriving on the Raimondi Park was initially imagined to go to the A’s to convey to their new stadium to commemorate their lengthy historical past within the Bay Space.
However workforce officers emailed BART in 2023 to tell them they might now not be accepting the automotive.
The Ballers mentioned they jumped on the chance to snag this piece of historical past the second BART known as.
“We would like Raimondi Park to really feel like a dwelling museum, the place we will repurpose and produce items of Bay Space historical past for individuals to expertise, and that is going to be an enormous step of that,” mentioned Casey Pratt, the vice chairman of Communications and Fan Leisure for the Ballers. “I feel that is just about the spirit of the Ballers, is taking this stuff and discovering one other manner for individuals to get one other likelihood to take pleasure in them, deal with them with the respect and historical past that they deserve.”
The Ballers additionally just lately introduced in two different donated items of historical past to Raimondi Park that might be new this season. You may acknowledge them
Two Stomper statues, initially commissioned by the A’s a number of years again, have been gifted from the Oakland Zoo and Go to Oakland after the workforce left the Bay Space.
The park is planning to name this space ‘Scrappy’s Sanctuary for Misplaced Animals.’
Opening Day for the Ballers at Raimondi Park kicks off on Might 20.
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