The Athletics have started the process to final acknowledge their move to Las Vegas.
According to the Las Vegas Sun, the West Sacramento Ballpark, the team introduced their new merchandise featuring their new home.
The A’s announced during the offseason that a directive is to only refer to the organization by its nickname and not its new city (West Sacramento) or its future one (Las Vegas, theoretically), are now finally selling gear that actually references West Sacramento.
At the last game, fans began to notice the change and took to Reddit to comment on the new merchandise. Fans cited the baseball T-shirt with gold sleeves and “Sacramento” written multiple times in a multicolored hippy-style font in the team store.
The week in their series against the Twins, the team shop also received the team shop received a varsity-style jacket with an embroidered logo of the Tower Bridge and “Sacramento” written in the team’s colors, team store manager Daniela Gonzalez told SFGATE.
At Wednesday’s game, the merchandise grew even more, with a gray shirt that reads “ATHLETICS BASEBALL” and the embroidered bridge logo next to the text. That design was also available on a crewneck sweater. As of Wednesday evening, the new pieces of apparel were not available for sale online — only at the ballpark itself. They don’t come cheap, either: The gray shirt and the baseball tee cost $50 each (though youth variants of the baseball tees were slightly cheaper), the sweater costs $100, and the jacket costs $200.
More Sacramento-focused merchandise is expected as the season progresses until the move to Las Vegas is complete.
