While it may lack the beauty and polish of its more progressive counterparts, former A’s outfielder Eric Byrnes once perfectly summed up why the archaic Coliseum wobbling tall in Oakland still means so much to the city.
‘It’s a giant concrete toilet bowl,’ Byrnes said bluntly back in 2018. ‘But it’s their toilet bowl.’
Even the most die-hard Oakland Athletics supporters would struggle to deny that their home stadium is an age behind others across the country. A decaying building