Ex-A’s owner rips ‘despicable’ Giants for team’s relocation from Oakland

Source: New York Post

Former A’s owner Lew Wolff is blaming the “despicable” MLB team across the bay for the franchise’s departure from Oakland.   In a new book titled “Moments,” Wolff wrote that the A’s leaving the city they had called home for 57 seasons was “100 percent due to the nasty, shameful, and continuing opposition of the Giants,” who blocked attempts by the franchise to move to nearby cities as they fought for a new stadium site, according to The Athletic. Wolff, who owned the franchise for roughly a decade from 2005-16, pointed the finger at the Giants’ territorial rights that extend into Santa Clara County, including San Jose, as a key reason the A’s South Bay relocation plan repeatedly fell through.