Here's how empty the Coliseum is for A's last season in Oakland

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OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- Attendance for Oakland A's games astatine the Coliseum are overmuch little truthful acold compared to past season, according to MLB data.

The highest attendance for the archetypal 21 games this play was Opening Day astatine astir 13,500 fans. The lowest attendance was Monday, erstwhile it was little than 2,900. Last season, opening time had implicit 25,000 fans.

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Last year's attendance done the archetypal 21 location games was 201,101 attendees. This year's attendance done the archetypal 21 location games is 128,664 attendees.

"Manfred and Fisher person done the intolerable and person lessened my involvement successful large league baseball," said Bob Bales, an A's instrumentality from Petaluma. "I volition ne'er beryllium a Giants fan, and I volition spell spot them successful Sacramento and I volition spell spot them successful Vegas but it volition ne'er beryllium the aforesaid for me."

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There is choler and sadness successful Oakland aft the Athletics announced they volition play the adjacent 3 seasons successful Sacramento earlier moving to Las Vegas.

The fans who are going to the games are reliving memories from the galore years the A's were successful Oakland. The squad has been based successful the metropolis since 1968.

"We conscionable beryllium present and we speech and sometimes we propulsion the shot and it is benignant of a lowkey casual happening to do," said Eric Scriven, an A's instrumentality from Napa. "I americium going to miss it, yeah."

Other fans who person been to games often this twelvemonth accidental it's the lowest turnout they've seen.

Average attendance truthful acold this twelvemonth is simply a small implicit 6,000 attendees per game.

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The projected location crippled attendance for the 2024 play is astir 496,287 attendees -- the 3rd worst turnout for the team. Both 1977 and 1979 had little attendance numbers.

"I person been going to games for years and immoderate days it's benignant of crowded, others we are the lone ones dancing," said Jesse Feldman, a instrumentality from San Leandro.

Jesse brought his lad to the crippled with him. For them it was astir spending clip together, but it's pugnacious knowing it's the A's past season.

"It is conscionable bittersweet due to the fact that I person loved the A's each my life," Ethan said. "He has brought maine present since I was a babe and my full puerility is close present successful this stadium."

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