Okay, Charlie Steiner is given to overstatement. Nonetheless, the Dodgers and Red Sox are staging an exhibition game at the LA Coliseum this Saturday. 115,000 tickets have been sold.
I saw my first big league game at the Coliseum, in 1960 or 1961, sitting behind third base. The Dodgers played there from 1958-1961 while their home in Chavez Ravine was being built; it had the weirdest baseball configuration imaginable. It was only 250 feet to the left field fence, but there was a 40-foot tall screen out there to make home runs a little more difficult (it didn't stop Wally Moon, a left-handed hitter who figured out how to slice pitches over the thing with some regularity). Now it's even shorter; over time the track has been removed so the fence is only 200 feet away. To compensate, a new 60-foot screen has been erected.
Should be fascinating; I hope it's on TV out here.
Update: Pictures here.
Posted by Linkmeister at March 26, 2008 11:43 AM | TrackBack