OAKLAND — Nostalgia hung in the air Wednesday as the A’s took the field for the final home game of the year at the Coliseum.
You could see it in the smile of Lonnie Thompson, an East Oakland kid who grew up to be the friendly face greeting players and media entering the ballpark.
It was stitched in the 55-year-old baseball glove slung over a railing in Section 119, where Steve Davidovich and his family have sat since Oakland A’s baseball premiered here in 1968.
The good years and bad years have come and gone in Gus Dobbins’ three decades working the security detail.