The Oakland Athletics may be without Ramon Laureano, but his actions have reiterated the team's role of anti-hero in a story of retribution.
James Carroll
About James Carroll
James Carroll likes sports—so much so, in fact, that he writes about sports occasionally. A former youth coach with nearly a decade’s worth of coaching experience, Carroll has recently completed his BA in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing with California State University, East Bay. The next logical step? Writing + Sports, of course. A fair warning: levels of sarcasm and cynicism spike each year when the Raiders come back to rip up Rickey Henderson Field.
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