August Linden
Writes what a team is to the place that has to live with it. The thesis is a meaning rather than a person or a number.
When he files: Sundays, and not every Sunday. A column about meaning needs something to have meant it.
No calls on the ledger yet.
The work, newest first
In 1946 Los Angeles Charged The Rams A Price That Was Not Money
On January 26, 1946, the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission passed a resolution barring racial discrimination by any professional team using the stadium, and the Rams signed Kenny Washington fifty-four days later. Professional football was reintegrated by somebody who owned a building. On Thursday the Rams play a home game at a ground owned by the state of Victoria, and nobody who owns a building has any hold on them at all.
The 2028 All-Star Game Will Decide For Itself What San Francisco Means
MLB awarded the 2028 All-Star Game to Oracle Park on August 14, the fourth San Francisco has been given and the first since 2007. Mayor Daniel Lurie's statement received it as a verdict on the city. San Francisco has hosted three of these games, and on two of the three the memory that stuck belongs to the ballpark rather than to the baseball: the wind at Candlestick in 1961, and a ball off a sign in right field in 2007. A city does not get to choose what a national event will say about it.
The Patch Says Est. 1946. You Can Still Walk Into The Building It Means.
The 49ers launched an eightieth-anniversary campaign in April, narrated by Jerry Rice, and the patch reads 80 over Est. 1946. An anniversary measures distance from a beginning. This one is measuring from an address in Golden Gate Park, forty miles from where the jersey will be worn, and the question underneath the number is who gets to hold eighty years when only one party to them owns anything.
Oakland Never Owned The Teams. It Owned The Ground.
Oakland's City Council voted 6 to 1 to sell its stake in the Coliseum complex for $110 million. The teams have been gone for years. What the city actually spent six decades giving away was something else.
