Las Vegas Aviators’ Green Jersey Giveaway Before Saturday’s Game Link To A’s Team Moving To Strip In 2028
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By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher-Writer
LAS VEGAS, Nevada — One thing about the Triple-A Aviators is that the Las Vegas minor league team doles out pretty nice freebies for their promotion nights.
And on Saturday, the Aviators distributed 2,000 green baseball jerseys with yellow trim and “Aviators” across the front.
The green jerseys were Athletics green and it was bittersweet to see fans wearing these jerseys here at a ballpark in suburban Summerlin while a Major League Baseball team is playing its final homestand at the Coliseum in Oakland after arriving in Northern California 57 years ago from Kansas City.
The A’s played the Yankees Saturday night with attendance announced at 33,198 at the Coliseum. The A’s play their final game in Oakland on Thursday against the defending World Series champion Texas Rangers.
The Aviators reported a sellout of 10,518 for their game against the El Paso Chihuahuas at Las Vegas Ballpark in Downtown Summerlin. The Las Vegas team lost, 6-5.
Before the A’s arrive at their new stadium on the Strip in 2028, they plan to play 2025, 20026 and 2027 in a Triple-A stadium in Sacramento.
Th Aviators’ green jerseys have a special link to the A’s because the Las Vegas team is the Triple-A affiliate of the Athletics.
A’s owner John Fisher was able to win state legislation in 2023 that earmarked $380 million in government assistance to help build the $1.5 billion, 30,000-seat domed stadium at the site of the former Tropicana hotel at Las Vegas Boulevard and Tropicana Avenue.
A former Coliseum tenant and A’s roommate — the NFL Raiders — also moved to Las Vegas to open a new domed stadium in 2020 thanks to $750 million in public money to build their stadium on the west side of I-15 across from Mandalay Bay.
The A’s have won 67 games this season so far, which means they will not lose 100 games. They lost their 88th game of the campaign when the A’s got clobbered by the playoff-bound Yankees, 10-0, Saturday. The A’s are five games ahead of the last place Angels.
The A’s are wrapping up their final homestand next week, preparing to play the next three years at the Sacramento minor league ballpark of the Triple-A affiliate of the San Francisco Giants and designing a new stadium for a Las Vegas debut in 2028.
It’s been a very emotional week for the A’s and the people who broadcast A’s games in the Bay area.
Take pre-game and post-game host Brodie Brazil, who posted this message:
