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Another two buses took us to the Oakland-Alameda Country Coliseum, where the Oakland A's, formerly the Kansas City A's, formerly the Philadelphia A's, play. BART, the nation's newest rapid transit system, also goes to the Coliseum. But not on weekends, and not on weekdays after 8 p.m. We had to wait until Monday to see if the future worked...
...Coliseum was an unspectacular, partially sunken concrete pile. Our $3 tickets put us in the sparsely populated third deck, high above the action. At those prices few kangaroos go to A's games. Nor do many Bay Area residents either, since the three-time defending World Champion A's annually struggle to gain one million fans...
...Locally there may be no need. Filipinos are such boxing fanatics that when former World Junior Lightweight Champion Gabriel ("Flash") Elorde goes shopping with his wife, he brings along his gloves to oblige admirers who want to show their stuff. There probably will be few empty seats at the coliseum in nearby Quezon City when Frazier and Ali square off Oct. 1 (Sept. 30 in the U.S., which is on the other side of the international date line). But even with a capacity crowd of 25,567 (16,000 of whom will pay just $4.50 a seat) and some...
...reason Finley keeps a tight grip on the cash is that the A's do not produce much profit. Attendance at modern Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum (capacity: 50,000), a few minutes' drive from downtown Oakland, averages only 13,000 per game. Among the reasons: cold, foggy evenings, competition from the San Francisco Giants across the Bay, and Finley's own money-saving cutbacks on promotion. The result last year was a modest profit of $350,000. Much of that came from TV revenue plus play-off and World Series income...
...fight, for eight glorious seconds, did these Elysian hopes near fulfillment. Catching the 33-year-old Ali off balance, the 225-lb. Wepner sent a solid blow to the ribs that dumped the champ on his rump. Until then, a condescending Ali had dominated the contest in The Coliseum near Cleveland. Unusually heavy at 233%, Ali intentionally spent most of the first six rounds on the ropes, guarding his face and upper body from Wepner's pummeling and waiting for his opponent to wear down. Unable to penetrate Ali's defense, Wepner began to pound...