Ending years of unsuccessful negotiations with the city of Oakland for a redevelopment of the Oakland Coliseum that would include a new baseball stadium, the Oakland A's are heading for Las Vegas.

The MLB franchise once owned by Charley Finley, the one with green and yellow uniforms, handlebar mustaches and a mule in the outfield—which, lest we forget, won three consecutive championships from 1972-1974—has signed a binding agreement to purchase a 49-acre site near the Las Vegas Strip owned by Red Rock Resorts, parent company of Station Casinos.

Dave Kaval, the team's president, said in a statement to the Las Vegas Review-Journal that the A's will build a new major league ballpark on the property. The price of the property was not disclosed.

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