Why Oakland Is Saying Goodbye to Pro Baseball

The Major League Baseball team the Athletics played their final games this week in the Oakland Coliseum, which has been their home base in California for the past half-century. They’re expected to relocate to Las Vegas for 2028 at the whim of their billionaire owner, John Fisher, and in the meantime play in a minor-league ballpark in Sacramento. Jack Nicas of The New York Times explains how the plan to build a stadium in Las Vegas is driven by a single factor — money — and what it’s meant to Oakland.