Cosca Family History Page One, Skyline Ranch

Steve learned to ride horses and bulls while growing up at the Skyline Ranch off Redwood Road in the Oakland, California hills. Steve's father Stanley built large white barns that housed 80 horses. Built in 1950, the year Steve was born, the Skyline Ranch had a roping arena, restaurant, tack rooms, wash racks, indoor riding ring, club room, blacksmith shop, saddlemaker shop, calf roping and bucking chutes. In the early 1970's, the most famous resident of Skyline Ranch was the mule Charlie O, mascot of the Oakland A's baseball team. Steve paraded Charlie O around every home game. The Cosca family just donated Charlie O's green blanket, headstall and bit, hater and lead shank to the Kansas City Baseball Historical Society Museum for display. Steve's mother Florence shown seated on the fence with her registered Pinto, Oak Haven Chief in 1940. Stanley is pictured on the right riding a Quarter Horse stallion horse named Cannonball, in 1970.
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