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Oakland Minor League Baseball Team Experimenting With Fan Ownership

Jul 12, 2024

From the start, the Oakland Ballers have aggressively set themselves up as a contrast to the Oakland A’s, who the founders see as everything wrong with modern sports. The Ballers were founded as a team in the independent Pioneer League after the A’s formally announced last year they were leaving Oakland.

This week, the team took its most radical step yet: The current owners want to sell shares of the team to fans and give those fans voting rights.

Source: Front Office Sports

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