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16 October 2013

Their Roots Are Showing Silent Auction: Be Keen – Buy Beane!



Come One – Come All – to our 2013 fundraiser: Their Roots Are Showing!

AND come early and bid often at the Silent Auction that precedes the on-stage presentation.

Your ticket to the show gives you bidding rights on a number of items generously donated by our celebrities for this event. The doors open and the bidding begins at 7:00 p.m., on Saturday, October 26, 2013.




For you baseball fans out there, Billy Beane (General Manager of the Oakland A’s and the subject of the bestselling book and movie, Moneyball) has generously donated such items as:
  • The Game Suite (seats between 8-12 people) at the Oakland Coliseum for a 2014 Oakland A’s game – with Billy Beane in attendance for the 1st 30 minutes!! 
  • An Oakland A’s team jersey, signed by the whole 2013 team 
  • Signed copies of Moneyball—both the hard cover book and the DVD 
  • Billy Beane’s personal rookie baseball card (his last one)—personally autographed for the winning bidder at the show!! 










The silent auction also feature items from Natalie Coughlin and Tim "Herb" Alexander. These items were donated by our celebrities for the benefit of this 2013 fundraising event—so come early and bid often!

For more information and to purchase tickets online, visit the Lesher theater website.


Photographs by Todd Armstrong.

Copyright © 2013 by Kathryn M. Doyle, California Genealogical Society and Library.

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