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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).
"Chavez Ravine" is mentioned in episode "Community" of the TV police drama Southland when a fraud victim describes how he was "born on home plate" and lived in his family home in Chavez Ravine until May 9, 1959, when the city came in and bulldozed his home to make way for Dodger Stadium.
Their 1978 run to the NL pennant drew a franchise-record 3.3 million fans to Dodger Stadium, but attendance dropped below 3 million two years later. The year of Fernandomania was sullied by a work ...
Aug. 28, 1966: The Beatles play a concert at Dodger Stadium before an estimated 45,000 people. Tickets were priced at $3, $4.50, $5.50 and $6 June 8, 1968: Don Drysdale sets the record for most ...
Walter O'Malley, who gained full control over the Dodgers organization in 1950, orchestrated the deal that eventually led to the construction of Dodger Stadium in Chavez Ravine between 1959 and 1962. O’Malley instantly had much success with multiple World Series appearances and one World Series championship during the 1950s, while also ...
Notably home to two things: Dodger Stadium — itself so inaccessible on foot that there has been a years-long effort to build a gondola to ferry people there from Union Station — as well as the ...
Earthmovers reshaped the hills beginning in 1959 and the stadium overlooking downtown Los Angeles opened April 10, 1962 in the Elysian Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. [1] The conditional use permit included a requirement that permanent transit to the stadium would be pursued. [2] The stadium is surrounded by 130 acres (53 ha) of parking lots.
Dodger Stadium, born in 1962 and now the third oldest park in baseball; and Yankee Stadium, rebuilt in 2009 and still evoking a storied era. (Jae C. Hong; Frank Franklin II / Associated Press)