In the movie “Field Of Dreams,” James Earl Jones hits it out of the park when he says: “People will come, Ray. The one constant through all the years Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It’s been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, is a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good, and that could be again. Oh people will come, Ray. People will most definitely come.”

With the 2018 season opening on both sides of the San Francisco Bay, one team has built their field of dreams, while the other still dreams about its field. The A’s have been in the batter’s box for multiple ballpark sites and struck out each time after looking at every one.

The latest drama entails whether the site at Peralta College, Howard Terminal or the Coliseum will be selected and a ballpark erected. With Oakland wanting to buy out Alameda County’s share of the Coliseum complex, the protracted process may keep the A’s in the dugout for awhile longer.

The A’s have proudly unveiled a number of building projects over the past few months:

1. New team offices at Jack London Square at a reported cost of $10 million.

2. A million-dollar Treehouse bar and restaurant to attract Millennials to the Coliseum.

3. A produce and flower farm to prove they are Rooted in Oakland. Can kale hit 22 homers? Will a begonia be brought in from the bullpen?

4. Promotional interest in their free ticket giveaway game on April 17th to celebrate 50 years in Oakland. The team says that 200,000 requests have been made.

5. A perfect last-team standing negotiating position in order to ask for public money to pay for infrastructure improvements at any of the three proposed ballpark sites.

The Giants’ building projects have taken the team on another path:

1. AT&T Park, which will continue building dreams in its 19th season.

2. A planned mega-million dollar mixed-use development at Mission Rock, which has taken 10 years of cooperative planning with the city, neighborhood and business partners. Construction of 1,500 housing units, 1.5 million square feet of retail and eight acres of parkland will soon begin.

3. A team that has won three World Championships.

4. A partnership with the Good Tidings Foundation, with whom the Giants have remodeled 23 youth baseball fields and have future plans for a major community baseball complex in San Francisco.

The Giants, 49ers, Kings, Warriors and Raiders, supported by proactive elected leaders of San Francisco, Santa Clara, Sacramento and Las Vegas, listened to James Earl Jones and built or are building their Field of Dream venues. The Miracle of Mission Bay is a real-life roadmap for success and the Coliseum could have been the East Bay’s version of that miracle.

But now the Warriors are going to chase championships in San Francisco; the Raiders are moving the Black Hole to a Las Vegas indoor stadium.

It’s up to A’s owner John Fisher, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, and Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred to get on with it. If you can build an attractive baseball venue in an Iowa cornfield, then you can do the same in Oakland.

Oh people will come Mr. Fisher, they will definitely come.