Every home the franchise has ever played in, from a wooden park in 1901 Philadelphia to the concrete-and-steel landmark of Shibe Park, the Oakland Coliseum, and the new ballpark rising on the Las Vegas Strip.
Columbia Park, a modest wooden grandstand in North Philadelphia, was where the Athletics story began in 1901. Connie Mack's earliest clubs won American League pennants here in 1902 and 1905, but wooden ballparks of the era were small and fire-prone, and Mack and co-owner Ben Shibe set out to build something permanent.
That vision became Shibe Park, which opened in 1909 as the first steel-and-concrete stadium in the major leagues, an instant landmark with a French Renaissance facade and domed tower. It hosted all five of the franchise's Philadelphia World Series titles and legends like Eddie Collins, Frank Baker, Jimmie Foxx, Lefty Grove, Al Simmons, and Mickey Cochrane. Renamed Connie Mack Stadium in 1953 to honor the man who ran the club for half a century, it stayed in use, later shared with the Phillies, until 1970.
After leaving Philadelphia, the Athletics spent 13 seasons at Municipal Stadium in Kansas City. On the field these were lean years, but under owner Charlie O. Finley, who bought the club in 1960, Kansas City became the place where the future Oakland dynasty was quietly assembled, Reggie Jackson, Catfish Hunter, Rollie Fingers, Bert Campaneris, and Sal Bando were all signed and developed here before Finley moved the club west after the 1967 season.
No ballpark has meant more to this franchise than the Oakland Coliseum. Fifty-seven seasons, longer than any other home in team history, saw the mustachioed Swingin' A's win three straight titles in 1972, 1973, and 1974, Rickey Henderson rewrite the stolen-base record book, the Bash Brothers power the 1989 championship, and Billy Beane's Moneyball teams turn a small budget into a 20-game winning streak. A no-frills multipurpose stadium shared for most of its life with the NFL's Raiders, it was never glamorous, but it carried the franchise's modern identity until the final Oakland season in 2024.
The move west isn't finished yet. Sutter Health Park in West Sacramento, home of the Triple-A River Cats, is serving as an intimate, roughly 14,000-seat bridge while the permanent ballpark is built, with the plan calling for the A's to play there through the 2027 season. That permanent home is planned for the former Tropicana site on the Las Vegas Strip: a roughly 33,000-seat, climate-controlled venue targeted to open for the 2028 season, marking the franchise's fifth city in a history that started with a wooden park in North Philadelphia.
The franchise's first home, a modest wooden ballpark in North Philadelphia where the A's won pennants in 1902 and 1905.
The first concrete-and-steel ballpark in the majors, home to all five Philadelphia World Series titles.
The Kansas City home for 13 seasons, where owner Charlie Finley developed the young core of the future Oakland dynasty.
The A's home for 57 seasons, site of four World Series titles, the Bash Brothers, and Moneyball.
The franchise's intimate interim home in West Sacramento, shared with the Triple-A River Cats, bridging Oakland and Las Vegas.
The franchise's future: a climate-controlled ballpark planned for the Tropicana site on the Las Vegas Strip, targeted for 2028.
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