Mount Davis, the giant seating structure soaring over Oakland Coliseum, has been closed to fans for years. The man tasked with looking after it until the A’s leave town has plenty of tales to tell.
OAKLAND, Calif. — Every day at work begins the same way for Henry Dawson. He takes the elevator to the sixth floor of the Oakland Coliseum, then strides the dozen yards to section 345. He steps out onto the most coveted, most controversial real estate here, and he gazes at the field, at the players and at the 129 sections of seats not covered by tarps.
In Wednesday’s first few innings, a dozen people tried to sneak up, their strategies varying from claiming that their tickets are up here to offering bribes to begging. Dawson and his colleagues want to let them up—“I kind of feel for them,” he says—but their orders are strict. There haven’t been too many people permitted to enjoy those views in recent years. As attendance fell, both teams stretched tarpaulins across the top section, eliminating some 8,100 seats. Mount Davis was last open to fans regularly in 2012 and at all for the A’s ’19 wild-card game loss to the Tampa Bay Rays.
The Mount Davis concourse is filled with junk no one has bothered to clean up. / Stephanie Apstein/Sports Illustrated
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