Nobody complained.”Al Wolf, “Players Complain but Fans Happy,” Los Angeles Times, 19 April 1958, A1. You couldn’t follow the ball, but the actions of the players told you what was happening. “In the far reaches of the vast arena…” wrote Al Wolf in the Los Angeles Times, “the game resembled a pantomime. The Dodgers hung on for a 6–5 win-not that everyone saw it clearly.
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In the ninth, the first three Giants batters doubled (Jim Davenport), tripled (Willie Kirkland), and singled (Willie Mays), plus the Dodgers committed an error … but the Giants scored just one run because Davenport had failed to touch third base on Kirkland’s triple. In front of 78,672 fans-at the time, a major league record crowd for a single game-the Dodgers took a 6–3 lead into the eighth inning, when 41-year-old Hank Sauer of the Giants became the first player to homer over the park’s 40-foot-high screen in left field. But in the four seasons the Dodgers called the Coliseum home (1958-61), the stands were often packed, and the games were seldom dull.Ĭonsider the first regular-season game ever played at the Coliseum, on April 18, 1958.
“It was weird, weird, weird playing in the Coliseum,” said Dodgers infielder Randy Jackson, summing up the feelings of many players.Danny Peary, editor, We Played the Game: 65 Players Remember Baseball’s Greatest Era 1947–1964 (Hyperion, 1994), 391.
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Games at the Coliseum could contain 250-foot home runs to left, 440-foot flyouts to right, and fielders staggering to pick up the ball in the park’s combination of single-decked seats, bright sunlight, and white-shirted fans (some of them movie and television stars). Lowry’s Green Cathedrals (Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., Inc., 1992). Memorial Coliseum.With a seating capacity of over 90,000, the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum was the largest ballpark ever to regularly host major league games.Based on seating capacities listed in Philip J.
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