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The stadium is commonly referred to as Chavez Ravine Stadium (or just "Chavez Ravine"), after the geographic feature in which the stadium sits. It is sometimes referred to as "Blue Heaven on Earth," a nickname coined by Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda .
Chavez Ravine is a shallow canyon in Los Angeles, California. It sits in a large promontory of hills north of downtown Los Angeles, next to Major League Baseball's Dodger Stadium. [1] [2] Chavez Ravine was named for a 19th-century Los Angeles councilman who had originally purchased the land in the Elysian Park area. [3] [4] [5]
Eventually, in the late 1950s, the city proposed to Brooklyn Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley that an entirely separate plot of land (a plot not part of or close to Chavez Ravine) be used as the site of a baseball stadium for the Dodgers team, which was exploring a move from Brooklyn's Ebbets Field to Los Angeles. O'Malley declined the original ...
Fernando Valenzuela arrived in Los Angeles in 1980 as a young Mexican and built a community in Chavez Ravine for ... Less than two decades after Dodger Stadium opened in 1962, 22 years after the ...
A new bill seeking reparations for families forced out of their homes in Los Angeles' Chavez Ravine area in the 1950s to build Dodger Stadium is being considered by California legislators.
With this land they established the first Jewish cemetery in Los Angeles at Lilac Terrace and Lookout Drive in Chavez Ravine. The site is now the current site of Dodger Stadium and the Los Angeles Fire Department's Frank Hotchkin Memorial Training Center. [2]
Dodger Stadium also known as Chavez Ravine Home of: Los Angeles Dodgers - National League (1962-present) Los Angeles/California Angels - American League (1962-65) Also used as a neutral site in the 2020 MLB postseason Location: 1000 Vin Scully Avenue (orig. Elysian Park Avenue)
Larry's family (and that of his wife) were removed from Chavez Ravine in the 1950s to make way for Dodger Stadium. Larry is skeptical about an Assembly bill that would give reparations to Chavez ...