Kevin Shafer
/in /by Morgan TremmelKevin Shafer has been jilted twice by major-league baseball, but he is still in love with the game. His first Athletics game was at Kansas City’s Municipal Stadium, and his last Athletics game was at the Oakland Coliseum. Throughout a nearly 40-year run as an Oakland A’s season ticket holder, he cemented life-long friendships with fellow fans, learned about the inner workings of an MLB franchise through special relationships, and even met his future wife on the way to a 1990 ALCS game. Rather than turning to instinctive bitterness after the second jilting, he and his wife have learned to rely on Cactus League spring training, minor-league baseball, and Pioneer League baseball as a means for re-discovering how competition (rather than glitz, glamor, and compensation) forms the solid foundation for the essence of the game of baseball—a game that we will always love.
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