Stories you shouldn’t miss:
1. Sports stadiums usually are not great investments for cities, the Trib reminds us today. But a new baseball-only ballpark in Oakland’s Jack London Square could revitalize the area much like the Giants’ ballpark did in San Francisco’s China Basin.
2. Trib columnist Monte Poole has an excellent run-down on how Oakland A’s co-owner Lew Wolff has badly alienated the team’s fan-base. It’s the exact opposite of what the Giants’ owners did in the run-up to building their successful new ballpark.
