Oakland A’s To Host Historic Wedding for San Ramon Couple

By Bobby O'Bryan

“How can you not be romantic about baseball?” Brad Pitt, Billy Beane, asks in the film Moneyball.

The venerable Oakland Coliseum stadium that was the set for the movie that opens everywhere in two weeks will be overflowing with romance as a real-life love story plays itself out at home plate just prior to the Oakland Athletics-Detroit Tigers game this Friday.

Wayne Coy, morning show host for popular Bay Area FM radio outlets KKIQ and KKDV will be marrying Nancy Fragus in a ceremony that comes 34 years after being forced to take 11-year-old Fragus (who his aunt was babysitting) to an A’s game at the Coliseum in September of 1977.

“I was 16 and had just gotten my drivers license.," Coy said. "My Aunt Ruth stopped me on the way out the door and said that Nancy was bored and that I should take her with me to the game. To me she was just a pesky kid and taking her was the ultimate buzz kill.”

For the Bakersfield-based Healthcare Finance Direct Vice President Fragus, the journey was anything but.

"Mesmerized is more like it," she said. "I was head over heels smitten with this cool guy who seemed like a rock star to me. Spending the day with him at the game meant the world to me. To him, I was a ‘little flea’ and he really couldn’t be bothered. He actually told me that if any cute girls came by our seats to be sure and not be too close to him. That didn’t faze me; I was enthralled to be breathing the same air as the cutie with a great smile, tight pants and a huge afro."

In November of 2010, after staying in sporadic contact as friends over the years, Coy and Fragus reconnected via Facebook. Both now divorced with children, their friendship sparks turned into a flame and the new year found them very much in love. In May, Coy took the initiative to ask Fragus for her hand in marriage at the only place that made sense to him.

"Some may say the scoreboard proposal is tacky but for us, it only made sense to do it where we had our first adventure together," he said. "In lights, for all to see at the A’s game. She said yes ... thankfully.”

Now, the couple are bringing it all full circle and making team history at the same time. Since the A’s moved to Oakland in 1968, there has never been an on-field wedding.

“We have people coming from all over the country and even Canada to see this happen," Fragus said. "Friends, family and of course lots of people who listen to Wayne’s show in the morning."

It’s larger than life and something no one will ever forget. I hope the guys on the A’s and Tigers don’t mind sharing the field with us for a little while.” They will be joined at home plate by four of their six children, officially blending as a new family in front of thousands.

In addition to the wedding ceremony and game, it is “Fireworks Night” and the theme is “Star Wars.”

Only fitting says Coy.

“That movie came out in 1977 – the same year we first went to a game together," he said.

The changes that have occurred in our society since then are not lost the brideto-be.

“Yes, a lot has really changed," Fragus says with a laugh. "Back then he had hair and I was flat chested!”

Plan to go? Here's what you need to know ...

WHAT: On-field wedding of Wayne Coy And Nancy Fragus

WHERE: Oakland Alameda County Coliseum (Home Plate)

WHEN: Sept. 16, just before the A’s vs. Detroit game

TICKETS: www.oaklandathletics.com

MORE INFO: www.wayneandnancy.com