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The sculpture weighs 800 pounds, and stands in the centerfield plaza of Dodger Stadium. It depicts Robinson stealing home plate, an act described by Cadet as "both real and symbolic; it required focused determination, courage and precise timing—synergistic qualities that were also present when the color barrier was finally broken in Major League Baseball, heralding a new era."
September 29 – After a fan threw a plastic beer bottle onto the field during a game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Colorado Rockies at Dodger Stadium, Milton Bradley of the Dodgers threw it back into the front row. As Bradley walked to the Dodgers' dugout after being ejected, he took his jersey and hat off, and with the crowd behind ...
Dodger Stadium is a ballpark in the Elysian Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.It is the home of the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball (MLB). Opened in 1962, it was constructed in less than three years at a cost of US$23 million (US$232 million in 2023).
Home plate umpire Nate Tomlinson avoided major injury after a piece of a broken bat flew through a slit in his mask at Tuesday's Dodgers-Angels game.
Social media posts of Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles went viral over the weekend, appearing to show the stadium completely flooded as Tropical Storm Hilary swept across Southern California.
Following the game, NL president Warren Giles suspended Marichal for eight games (two starts), fined him a then-NL record $1,750 (equivalent to $17,000 in 2023) and forbade him from traveling to Dodger Stadium for the final, key two-game series of the season.
In 2019, as part of renovation plans, the Los Angeles Dodgers announced that they would unveil a statue of Sandy Koufax in the centerfield plaza of Dodger Stadium.It was the second statue dedicated by the Dodgers after the statue of Jackie Robinson was unveiled in 2017.
One of the last Dodger Stadium performances of the pre-COVID era even featured a touching full-circle moment, when Paul McCartney brought the only other surviving Beatle, Ringo Starr, onstage for ...