Oakland A's THE BUILDING OF MT. DAVIS. May 11, 1996

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There is a lot of significance to this video. First, it was me taking my 10 year old son to his first A's game. My Dad took me to my first A's game also when I was 10, on the same date, May 11, 1968. So, here we are, me and my son, 28 years after my date did the same with me. Meanwhile, the building of Mt. Davis was going on, during the game. Little did I know then how horrible this would be for the Oakland A's yard and the quality of what was a great ballpark. This is why I am not a Raiders fan or an NFL fan anymore. This should not have happened. However, this day was a grand day, more me and my son.

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@originalshamus 9 лет назад

Raiders ruined a great ballpark. hell of a job for those construction workers though. they got to watch baseball while they worked!

@charlesjwin 7 лет назад

Max Payne He wanted to sell "more" tickets... the sheer gall of that.

@SilverGrizzly Год назад

This is awesome footage! The 90s seem ancient at this point. I grew up watching my Pirates at Three Rivers Stadium but I went to the Oakland Coliseum once and that was in July of 1996 and I was 12 at the time. The A’s played the Orioles and “The Macarena” was the highlight of the night. Mt. Davis looked steep!

@gerrythrash6563 4 года назад

When the Raiders leave, Mt Davis must be demolished. Post haste.

@tizzdell 7 лет назад

I'm a diehard raiders fan but I feel bad for the A's and their fans because of Al Davis ruining the ballpark

@lightningfan Год назад

Hello! I know you may not see this but after the raiders move, do you still follow them

@tizzdell Год назад

@@lightningfan sadly… yeah

@sirchi8731 11 месяцев назад

@@tizzdellThe Raiders are Oakland's "rooted" team the Coliseum was built for us not baseball or basketball. The Warriors are from Philadelphia/San Francisco and the A's from Kansas city. Oakland should have kicked out the A's and priority football

@johnwalker4329 11 месяцев назад

@sirchi8731 Are you a fan? If so that's a cold blooded assessment of the A's as opposed to the raiders and warriors. The warriors played at the coliseum / oracle arena for 48 seasons. The A's brought more success to oakland in a short period of time than the raiders. Between 1967 and 1977 the raiders went to the AFL/AFC championship game 9 times and only made it to two superbowls during that span. The early success of the oakland athletics is second to only the new york yankees. Five ALCS appearances in the first 8 years between 1968 and 1975. Which included 3 consecutive world series championships. Please have a heart man. Al Davis is the blame for everything that went wrong with the coliseum. He couldn't get with he wanted in los angeles, do he returned to oakland and messed up a beautiful multi purpose stadium.

@sirchi8731 11 месяцев назад

@@johnwalker4329 football is king. Raiders will always be more popular then the A's. The Coliseum was built in 1966 for the Raiders..meanwhile the A's was in Kansas city 😂😂

@patrickleitgeb 5 лет назад

Great upload. A couple of things I noticed: Roy Steele as the PA announcer; 2:35 the vendor selling pretzels is still vending at games as of 2019; All of the orange seats hadn't been replaced; 11:25 the runner looked safe; 11:50 Banjo Man still makes his rounds today;

@leaveittobaker 2 месяца назад

Love hearing Roy Steele's voice again. It wasn't just that though, the noise in the background is so reminiscent of fun days at the ballpark. Vendors, prop planes flying over, etc. Cool thing is, I worked for the A's in 1997 as my internship. I did camera work, watched out of town games, video booth, etc. Everything for the Jumbotron!

@eccentricgamer4111 6 лет назад

I'm not an A's or Raiders fan, but it bugs me how they leave Mount Davis covered with tarp. I mean, if you're going to add extra seats to your stadium, _use them!_

@benallen2196 5 лет назад

I agree it's to ugly now

@fourthgirl 5 лет назад

The Raiders returned to Oakland after 15 years and bullied the city/county to add suites and that monstrosity of seating above the suites lovingly known as Mt. Davis. A's never wanted it because you can't see the game. Raider fans hated the view and the climb.

@sn0tszn631 4 года назад

I understand that it my look ugly with the tarp on it but they use Mt Davis for special events like a big Raiders game or the bay bridge Giants vs A's series. I know this because i'm a Giants and A's fan. But now the Raiders are moving to Las Vegas and Mt Davis will be mainly used for the A's till they move out

@Zguzman5023 4 года назад

You can't use them, its such a terrible seat that no one wants to sit up there causing the games to blackout. When they put the tarp on they starting selling out every game again and people could actually watch them on TV

@DDDiego 3 года назад

@@Zguzman5023 they need to tear it down now that the Raiders moved to Vegas

@jjohnson1249 8 лет назад

It was always funny to watch the construction workers stop their work and perform the YMCA dance when the song came on...good times.

@trcampbell1529 5 лет назад

j johnson Need to find some video of that. ICE BOX!

@HellaADZ 3 месяца назад

RIP Roy Steele. Coliseum hasn’t sounded the same since.

@michaelgriffith4110 2 месяца назад

Beginning of the end for this ballpark. That view you got overlooking the hillside was one of the best in mlb

@islandtoisland Год назад

Thanks for posting this. There isn’t much historical documentation of this available.

@mrmitch5150 11 лет назад

Thanks for sharing this, it certainly brought back some memories! Banjo man looks the same...haha.

@J.robertfrick Год назад

What a gem, thank you for posting! 🐘

@mazdaman1982 6 лет назад

I remember back then I was his age but I lived in Toronto lol and I was a Jays fan lol this video brought good memories up :) thank you so much for uploading this video:)

@ericgomez2336 4 года назад

Beautiful video brother, sharing the moment and day with your son! I look forward to doing the same with my boy. OAKLAND SPORTS FOREVER !!

@SJSharkWannabe 9 лет назад

Good ol' Roy Steele at the mic.

@RaymondStone 10 лет назад

The mix of green and orange seats is very strange. Not to sound like a RU-vid ad, but go to my page if you want to see a video about the different forms of the Oakland Coliseum, including its pre-renovation look.

@williamfryman4360 2 года назад

The Giambino was hitting third and Big Mac at cleanup. This was when the A’s had good players but couldn’t put it all together. Then they got the opposite problem, they had to get cheap players and were better managed but never got over the hump. Love the Orange baseball, Charlie O really did love the fans (allegedly more than he did the players if you ask the players lol) he thought the Orange ball would be better for night games. He also scheduled more night games so working people could attend.

@Zguzman5023 4 года назад

This brings back so many memories, going to the game as a kid and loving when the construction workers would stop and do the YMCA

@TheDarkwingj 11 лет назад

The raiders should have built their own stadium instead

@jaydenmurray4071 7 лет назад

thebayareapimp2 what 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@CumLordGary 7 лет назад

thebayareapimp2 uhhh no, the A's have had this stadium since the 60's raiders moved here in 1996

@AALS96 6 лет назад

+YOSHI YO (The Charismatic Legend) not really the Raiders were there since the stadium was built but they just moved to LA for like 12 years then they came back

@Xrayballer88 5 лет назад

The city wanted the Raiders back. Since Al Davis is cheap I believe the only way the city could get him to agree to return the team is if the Coliseum added 20K seats to the stadium.

@davidhalcon5594 Год назад

@@CumLordGary wrong! You must have been kidding back then. The raiders where in Oakland in 1960 til 82, then returned in 96 from LA.

@josephwilliams3185 11 лет назад

It was a nice place for baseball until they have decided to ugly it up

@jazzbassoonpaul 3 месяца назад

what an absolute tragedy of an idea. The worst, worst thing the city of Oakland ever agreed to. The town lost ALL 3 of its teams because of what they did to this park for the LA Raiders.

@EastOaklandZay 3 года назад

Im here in 2021 sad the raiders have left us

@johnwalker4329 11 месяцев назад

Crazy to realize this team finished in third at 78-84. They wouldn't make the postseason until 2000, which started 4 straight playoff appearances including money ball winning 103 games in 2001and 102 wins in 2002.

@johnwalker4329 11 месяцев назад

This is definitely lost footage because this during a stretch when they on went to the postseason 3 times between 1990 and 2000.

@robertmusgrave9236 2 месяца назад

Why didn’t players say something about them working on the stadium during the game ?

@johnwalker4329 11 месяцев назад

That was over 20,000 fan's.

@zksskdhxh 8 лет назад

It looks pretty dangerous

@johnwalker4329 11 месяцев назад

Over 20,000 fans for a afternoon game.

@martinm_m9603 9 лет назад

SJSharkWannabe Sounds good

@timelymirror7826 Год назад

🤔they still played in the stadium like that back then

@chicagoakland 7 лет назад

11:50 Banjoman!

@slush281 7 лет назад

Why did you wait until he was 10?

@dipschtick167 5 лет назад

He actually went with us as a family of 4 to games, before this. However, this was our first father/son only game. My father took me to my first game when I was ten exactly on May 11. Last year I took my 10 year old grandson to our first game together, and he's in Seattle WA, so we saw the A's at Safeco/Seattle.

@ebblue81 7 лет назад

Best Job ever!!

@johnmongani5223 7 лет назад

it'll get knocked down soon when the A's move to Jack London Square and the Raiders build a new stadium.

@yungsammysosa6201 5 лет назад

Im from oakland been here all my life...when the raiders left i was pissed but its nothing new...when the warriors finished their new stadium in sf...it was only a matter of time...but if my A's leave im going to be really hurt! Build the park...they deserve it!!! LETS GO OAK-LAND!!!