With 10,000 baseball bats and 7,000 gloves among the massive sports inventory in its 40,000-square foot warehouse, West Coast draws customers all across the world.
Besides his huge collection of inventory for sale, Jeff Fingerut keeps a collection of sports memorabilia on display at his West Coast Sporting Goods, including a Silver Slugger Award, Saturday, Feb. 18, 2023, in San Leandro, Calif. SAN LEANDRO — It happens every spring here in San Leandro. Young baseball players from the Bay Area and beyond with their dads, moms or grandparents make their way to West Coast Sporting Goods, a mecca of baseball equipment for nearly three quarters of a century.
Somehow, the warehouse provides just enough space for owner Jeff Fingerut’s gigantic inventory, which features a head-spinning stash of 10,000 bats and 7,000 gloves. “I grade myself not on a profit, I grade myself on whether you got everything you wanted. If you didn’t, I failed you,” said Fingerut, the third generation owner of the family business that began in 1948 as a shoe store in Oakland. “Dick’s may have 12 red belts and they may run out by Friday. I’ve got 800 red belts in bins. And if you come looking for a youth medium red undershirt, too, I’d better have one for you to buy at the right price.
Clearly, West Coast is baseball to its core — from one of its three full-time employees being named “Abner” right down to the daily “squeeze play” executed by patrons trying to maximize the store’s virtually nonexistent parking spaces. But the place still has plenty of room for softball, basketball and football gear that keeps the warehouse teeming with would-be consumers.
“I now do more business in Mexico, Europe, Australia and Japan than I do here,” said the 59-year-old Fingerut, now in his 44th year working at West Coast, the last 30 as its owner. “I now do more business in Mexico, Europe, Australia and Japan than I do here.”
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