McAfee Colesium Stadium

The Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum is a baseball haven, with open and wide center and the stands that are built along the first and third base lines. Located in Oakland , California , the Coliseum is a football and baseball facility. Oakland Athletics are the tenants of the ballpark since 1968. The Oakland Raiders housed the stadium in two different eras from 1966-1981 and from 1995 to present. The park was inaugurated in 1966 for the Oakland Raiders, a NFL team. Currently the ballpark has the capacity to accommodate more than 60,000 people and looks very different than when it opened. The stadium hosted Major League Baseball All Star Game in 1987 and World Series in 1972, 1973, 1974, 1988, 1989 and 1990. On September 4, 2002 , the A's broke the American League record for consecutive wins with 20. In 1991, Henderson broke Lou Brock's stolen base record.

In the mid 1940's, to earn the franchise of baseball and football teams, the officials proposed the construction of a new multi-purpose stadium to be built in the area. In 1960, a site was chosen to build the stadium near the C.W. Nimitz Freeway and in 1962 the construction on the multipurpose stadium began. Built at the cost of $25.5 million on 120 acres of land, the stadium was completed in four years. The Raiders inaugurated the stadium On September 18, 1966 . When Kansas City A's owner Charlie Finley observed that the Oakland area has been successful drawing good attendance with a Pacific Coast League team, he decided to relocate his team to the Oakland area to play at the coliseum. Even the city showed the propensity to house the team. The team was named the Oakland Athletics. The Athletics' played their first game in the Coliseum on April 17, 1968 . The Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Complex had once an outdoor stadium and the indoor arena. The outdoor stadium was commonly addressed as "the Coliseum", and the arena was called "The Coliseum arena". The stadium is still called the Coliseum and the arena houses the Golden State Warriors basketball team of the NBA and is called The Arena in Oakland .

Although the Coliseum is big enough and has all the baseball friendly features, the Athletics have never performed up to the mark. Even though the team had star studded line-up including Jim "Catfish" Hunter, Rollie Fingers, and Reggie Jackson in 1970s; Mark McGwire, Jose Canseco, and Walt Weiss in 1980s; Miguel Tejada, Jason Giambi, Eric Chavez, Mark Mulder, Tim Hudson, and Barry Zito in 2000s, the franchise has remained an ordinary team. In 1982, the Raiders left the Coliseum and moved to Los Angeles . In 1989, the Oakland A's won their fourth World Series since moving to Oakland after besting the San Francisco Giants in the earthquake-interrupted "Bay Bridge" Series or "BART" Series. In July 1995, the Los Angeles Raiders agreed to return to Oakland on the condition to renovate the Coliseum according to their convenience. Major renovations were done to the Coliseum in 1995 to bring the Raiders back home. The renovations continued until the beginning of the 1996 football season. Meanwhile the A's played their first few home games of the 1996 season in Las Vegas . The outfield bleachers were removed and added two 40,000-square-foot clubs, 22,000 seats, 125 luxury suites, a 9000-square-foot kitchen, two new color video boards and two-matrix scoreboard.

The Coliseum is in close proximity to Oakland International Airport and is connected to a local Bay Area Rapid Transit station, (B.A.R.T.). The parking is available in plenty for every home game. The fans particularly to attend the tailgate parties gather hours before. The stadium was also referred to as "the Mausoleum" by some in the late 1970s when the scoreboard didn't work, and also because of the grey concrete ghostly look of the stadium. The Coliseum is the best pitcher's park in the AL due to its expansive foul territory that reduces the batting average by approximately five to seven points. Fans sitting at the foul poles can catch home run fair balls by reaching in front of the foul pole screens. In September 1997, it was decided to give the naming rights to UMAX Technologies, but following dispute court held the deal and in 1998, Network Associates agreed to pay $5.8 million over five years for the naming rights. In 2003, Network Associates renewed the contract for another five years at a cost of $6 million. After the Network Associates Company was rechristened to McAfee, the stadium was also renamed accordingly.