WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The most glaring difference between a major- and minor-league stadium is in height. The newly renovated home of the Athletics, Sutter Health Park in West Sacramento, Calif., carries just one main level topped by a second concourse of mostly suites, and in that way, it is still unmistakably the minor-league park it was built to be. But in a city that’s never regularly hosted Major League Baseball, the A’s hope intimacy creates an unusual draw.
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Standing behind the press box on the ballpark’s top floor two days ago, Steve Sax, the 14-year major-league veteran who now does television work for the A’s, gestured into the distance,
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