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Today, with over 60,000 seats McAfee Coliseum looks very different than when it opened. In the mid 1940s Oakland officials first proposed that a new stadium be built in the area to attempt to lure a professional baseball and football team. It was 1960 before a site was chosen to build the stadium, near the C.W. Nimitz Freeway. Construction on the multipurpose stadium began in 1962. The stadium was constructed deep in the ground allowing fans to enter on the upper deck level. Named the Oakland Coliseum it was completed in four years. The Oakland Raiders played the first game ever at the Oakland Coliseum on September 18, 1966. For years fans had strongly support the Oakland Pacific Coast League franchise. Because of this Kansas City A’s owner Charlie Finley decided to move his baseball team to the Oakland Coliseum after the 1967 season. Thus, the Kansas City A's were renamed the Oakland Athletics (aka, the "A's"). The Athletics name dates back to 1860 when an amateur team, the Athletic of Philadelphia, was formed. (A famous image from that era, at left, published in Harper's Weekly in 1866, shows the Athletic players dressed in uniforms displaying the familiar Old English "A" on the front.) The team later turned professional Association through 1875, becoming a charter member of the National League in 1876, but were expelled from the N.L. after one season. A later version of the Athletics played in the American Association from 1882–1891.
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