MLB commissioner Rob Manfred, state and local government dignitaries, former Oakland A’s greats Rollie Fingers, Dave Stewart and Dallas Braden attended the ceremony on the Las Vegas Strip.

The Oakland A's broke ground for a new stadium on the Las Vegas Strip. Several cities, including Salt Lake City, are competing for possible baseball expansion. The Tampa Bay Rays are in talks to sell the team to a Jacksonville developer.

With the Athletics' Las Vegas ballpark groundbreaking just days away, take a look back at the four-year timeline that brought this project from speculation to reality.