When it comes to Sacramento baseball, the public discourse has focused this year on the Athletics' local debut, visits from their major league rivals and all other aspects of the former Oakland team's transitory moment in the region.

But on a recent evening at West Sacramento's ballpark, when the crowd hooted and hollered for a first baseman's at-bat, they were cheering for the River Cats, the minor league team that has spent 25 years entertaining baseball fans here with performances by MLB-bound players and quirky promotions.

Little ink has been spilled for the Cats as the team takes on the rare task of sharing a field and a spotlight with a major league franchise, and the team's attendance has ebbed in this first of three seasons sharing Sutter Health Park with the Athletics. In the fi

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