Many longtime Oakland Athletics employees are still working in their 70s, 80s and even 90s because they love being part of the games and cherish the community aspect of coming to work at a place with such history.

As the Oakland Athletics play their final home games at the Coliseum, employees still working the stands in their 70s, 80s and even 90s are bracing for what's next.

In his tiny office at the Coliseum, longtime visiting clubhouse manager Mikey Thalblum pulls out a $5 check from Charles Finley dated March 20, 1980. Thalblum was just a baseball-loving boy then, having begun with the Oakland Athletics at spring training in 1980 as a sixth-grader at Pueblo Elementary,

It might be the first work week of the fall season, but it will still feel like summer in Northern California.

If you're not quite ready to let go of summer, which officially ends Sunday, you may be in luck: The weather forecast for the United States for the months of October through December shows that warmer-than-average temperatures are likely for 46 of 50 states,