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Like many of you, I have wonderful memories of watching baseball at the Coliseum. I didn’t go often, but my days and nights there produced some of my favorite ballpark stories. In 1992, I road-tripped up from USC with some other members of the street-hockey crowd for a day game pre-Mt. Davis. It was a gorgeous Saturday afternoon, and we sat out in left field and watched the A’s ruin Mike Fetters’s Strat card and eliminate the Brewers from AL East contention. I watched a couple of Hall of Famers hit homers, saw Rickey and Hendu patrol the outfield, caught some of Paul Molitor’s last moments as a Brewer. The Coliseum was just the fifth park I’d ever been to, and it felt like an adventure.
