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Friday Slide Show: The Old Ballgame
24 July 2026
The thought has occurred to us that the much-traveled team (Philadelphia and Kansas City can explain) once known as the Oakland A's and now playing in Sacramento as the Athletics while awaiting a tomb in Las Vegas, really fit the city they are now playing in.
As on that long ago day -- Aug. 6 in 2009 -- the stadium fills up with families taking in the sun along with the national pastime. You can get close to the game. It's accessible.
In 2009, we took a Casio Exilim EX-H10 digicam with us to the game. Its 10x optical zoom lens with an equivalent 240mm reach made the game even more accessible.
Even then, though, we were surprised how shabby the Oakland Coliseum had gotten. We'd been to World Series games there not all that long ago.
My notes for the day report, sadly, that the A's took an early lead but their 21-year-old pitcher Trevor Cahill gave up a few homers and the bullpen didn't stop the bleeding. A rally in the ninth added some drama but the A's lost to the Rangers 6-4.
That $300 Casio can be found for about $60 these days. Its 12.1-megapixel sensor is mated to that 24-240mm equivalent lens and featured an exceptional 1,000-shot battery life.
But, as we reported at the beginning of our User Reprt, the iPhone was already all the rage. Its large screen and a user interface that lets you zoom in on a photo with your fingers were no match for the Casio's static 3.0-inch LCD.
Now, as a new generation tries to escape the computational photography of their phones with digicams new and old, the Casio H10 makes an appealing alternative. If you can find a fresh battery, that is.
