‘Minor league’ or ‘baseball paradise’? Either way, A’s opener in Sacramento was one-of-a-kind

WEST SACRAMENTO — For better or worse, the first major-league Opening Day in this onetime minor-league town was one to remember.

“This,” Joe Hattfield, 42, said from the grass berm in right field of Sutter Health Park, gesturing toward the playing surface, “is baseball paradise.”

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