The last home game of the Oakland A's at the Coliseum is triggering a flood of fans' memories and tears, even for actor Tom Hanks who famously uttered the movie line about 'no crying in baseball.'
The last home game of the Oakland A's at the Coliseum is triggering a flood of fans' memories and tears, even for actor Tom Hanks who famously uttered the movie line about 'no crying in baseball.'Hanks, a Bay Area native who spent his formative years in Oakland, admitted there may indeed be crying in baseball as the team he rooted for played their last game in Oakland Thursday before moving next season to Sacramento ahead of an eventual move to Las Vegas.
'You know the saying there is no crying in baseball,' said Hanks. 'I'll be shedding a little bit of a tear when it comes down to the final lap of the final game of the Oakland A's in the Oakland Coliseum.'Hanks' golden memories poured out. 'Look, I am 68 years old. The Oakland A's have been a part of my life and people I paid attention to all through the Bash Brothers days and certainly the glory days of their world championship games.
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