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Matinee: Goodnight Oakland A's
28 September 2024
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
So we're pleased to present the 571st in our series of Saturday matinees today: Goodnight Oakland A's.
This 3:18 tribute to a professional baseball team as it becomes unmoored from its fans of nearly six decades was written and narrated by Jeremy Wesler. The video is a take-off on the children's classic Goodnight Moon.
Wesler writes of his celebration of the Oakland franchise:
I hope you enjoyed Goodnight Oakland A's -- my final tribute to the team I grew up loving.
I was fortunate enough to spend six wonderful years working for the A's in-house video team and I learned better than most about the special connection between this team and A's fans. The project I loved most during my time with the A's, "This is Oakland" (narrated by the legendary Roy Steele), can be found by clicking here -- alongside other samples I'm extremely proud of.
To me, the A's will always be synonymous with Oakland.
To leave the Bay Area is to abandon what makes the A's the A's.
Indeed. After stints in Philadelphia (54 years) and Kansas City (12 years), the franchise finally found a city in Oakland (57 years) that it could call home. But, just as in Philadelphia and Kansas City, an owner decided the outfield grass was greener somewhere else.
A few days earlier this week, ABC7 Sports Director Larry Beil read and responded to the public letter of apology Oakland team owner John Fisher released:
A sad day indeed. On both sides of the bay, frankly.