The Ballers will be playing their first game in Oakland on Tuesday, just about a month after the baseball field at their new Raimondi Park home was deemed unplayable.
For the past few weeks, construction has been going on non-stop to get the area ready to welcome the team. Richard Griffin Junior drove out to 18th Street between Campbell and Wood Street to check out the renovated park.'Visualize the change in Oakland that I'm just happy to be living long enough to be able to see this,' Griffin said. 'I couldn't recongize it almost.'Griffin has spent a lot of time in West Oakland .
'Baseball itself just brings pride and joy into a neighborhood and the safety concerns will just kind vanish, because baseball will be here,' he said.Oakland City Council member for the area Carroll Fife believes the privately funded baseball field will continue to positively impact the community.'This is a blessing that Oakland needed at this particular time,' Fife said.
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