The A’s settled into their new home in Sacramento. The result was familiar

The team that brought us Moneyball is in the middle of a move from Oakland to Las Vegas. Fans turned up to their home opener but this is still a club in flux

It could have been worse for the Athletics. Before they headed west to Oakland in 1968, their characterful former owner, Charlie Finley, threatened to move them from Kansas City to a cow pasture in the tiny town of Peculiar, Missouri.

Now they are in a place you might call Limbo, California - also known as the home of the Pacific Coast League's Sacramento River Cats. It's a staging post for Major League Baseball's most contentious franchise after the burning of their Bay Area bridges left them needing somewhere to play ahead of a planned relocation from Oakland to Las Vegas.