Dick Williams, Alvin Dark, Chuck Tanner, Billy Martin, and Tony La Russa were all managers in Oakland. The A's played their first few home games of the 1996 season in Las Vegas while work crews installed new seats in the Coliseum. UMAX Technologies, a tiny Bay Area subsidiary of a Taiwanese computer hardware maker, bought the naming rights to the Coliseum. However, a dispute arose and a 1998 court decision reinstated the stadium's original name. Surrounded by a beautiful green iceplant slope.
Backstop is a notch cut in the stands.
It was once possible to watch games for free from the concourse behind the field seats by peering between wooden slats in the cyclone fence. Since 1972 the Coliseum has been host to 36 postseason games, of which the A s have won 22. Winds favor lefthanded batters. He held several jobs with the A's and was eventually promoted to a team vice president. Fans sitting at the foul poles can catch home run fair balls by reaching in front of the foul pole screens.