The answer: Take your pick.

That's because Wagoner is a fixture at games involving all five of those professional teams. She is an usher at Raiders, Giants and Warriors games, she works with the disabled and elderly at A's games, and she has 49ers season tickets with husband Gary, a warehouseman.

The San Jose Sharks and Earthquakes must not know about her.

Judy, 55, is that face in the crowd, certainly, but she's also that ever-present friendly helping hand who makes going to the ballpark, stadium or arena a pleasant experience, win or lose.

Judy was born in Oakland and now lives in San Lorenzo. She has two children, daughter Yvonne, 31, who works for Comcast Bay Area Sports as an Emmy-winning broadcast assistant, and son Joey, 29, a juvenile probation officer in Arizona who was once an A's batboy.

Judy played softball as a girl, so sports run in the family. But Judy is that rare individual who is attached, in some capacity, to all five Oakland and San Francisco pro teams.

That brings up the obvious question: Is she in danger of burning out from too many sports?

"Not really," she said Wednesday. "I got four days off this week with both teams away. I can say hi to my husband. But I still get a kick out of it because there's something new every game."

It all began when she went to work for the A's in their ticket office in 1974. She then moved to the press gate, the information booth, and finally to her present job of pushing fans in wheelchairs over the BART ramp to the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum.

She started working Raiders games after they returned to Oakland from Los Angeles in 1995. The Giants hired her in 2000. Besides Warriors games, she also works Oracle Arena concerts involving the likes of rocker Bruce Springsteen, easy-listening singers Celine Dion and Yanni and country-and-Western star George Strait.

"Those cowboy fans sure drink a lot of beer," she said, "but they're peaceful."

Basketball brings her the greatest joy.

"I really love doing the Warriors games," she said of her right-behind-the-home-team-bench usher position. "It's a small area with season-ticket holders. And I know all the people."

Things can be different at Raiders games, of course. Some ticket holders wearing silver and black have become unruly, she said. Imagine that.

"I've been spit on, pushed and punched," she said of Raiders games. "But it's gotten better. They've put me in a nicer area. And they have a little area now for kids to play in, so they're trying."

But as a general rule, the fans around her have been friendly.

"There's just not that many of them," she said of A's fans, "but they're good fans."

With her wide-ranging job, Judy dresses in various uniforms sometimes getting dressed at home, sometimes at the facility.

Judy's hospitality has brought her celebratory jewelry from the A's. She wears a 1989 World Series championship ring and a 1988 American League championship watch. She also has a 1990 A.L. championship pendant at home.

An appreciative Giants fan gave her a gold bracelet with Giants charms.

Plus, she's been sent flowers.

Can ushers watch the game?

"As long as you're doing your job, looking around to make sure people are OK and behaving themselves," she said.

Judy isn't getting rich in her work, which offers her little vacation time, but she isn't thinking about retirement.

"I'll keep doing it," she said. "We have some (ushers) in their 70s. Sometimes you get a little tired, but you have to keep going."

It's the fans who push her along.

"They're like extended family," she said.

And she's like their mom, looking after them.

Dave Newhouse's columns appear Mondays, Thursdays and Sundays, usually on the Metro page. Know any Good Neighbors? Phone 510-208-6466 or e-mail dnewhouse@bayareanewsgroup.com