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In the Race
Now, here, you see, it takes all the blogging I can do to keep in the same place. If I want to get somewhere else, I must blog twice as fast as that! You see, I'm in the Red Queen's Race...
An Historic Event in Baseball
By Janet Evans
Saturday, Mar 29 2008, 08:14 PM
 The first Opening Day game at the Los Angeles Coliseum, Dodgers-Giants April 18, 1958,
drew a crowd of 78,682. (File/Associated Press)
Tonight, the Dodgers return to their first Los Angeles home. They are coming back to the Coliseum one more time to play the Red Sox in an exhibition game, and officials are hoping for a world-record baseball crowd of over 115,000.
"I remember the Coliseum all too well," said commissioner Bud Selig, who watched the Sox in Japan and plans to be at tonight's game. "My team, the Milwaukee Braves, lost the 1959 pennant there. I remember those Wally Moon shots. There's a lot of history here. We're recreating something from 47, 48 years ago, and it's just amazing."
Read about it from the Boston Globe
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Facts and figures about the exhibition game to be played at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on Saturday (7:10 p.m. PT) between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Boston Red Sox:
Expected attendance: More than 115,000
The ballpark: The Coliseum, built for football, was an oddity for baseball. The Dodgers played four seasons there, from 1958 to 1961. The left-field foul pole was 251 feet away from the plate, with a 42-foot screen in left. Because of changes to the stadium since then (removal of the track, added seats), the configuration for Saturday's game are even stranger -- 201 feet down the line in left, with a 60-foot screen.
Memories: The Dodgers won the World Series in 1959. The three Series games in the Coliseum drew more than 92,000 fans each. In May 1959, the Dodgers played the New York Yankees in an exhibition game to honor Roy Campanella, the great Dodgers catcher who had been paralyzed in a car accident. The crowd was 93,103, the largest ever to attend a game between major league teams.
Fan Festival: The Dodgers are putting on an all-day festival of baseball activities outside the Coliseum, including attractions for kids, autograph booths with former Dodger players and live music from the 1950s and 1960s.
Take me out: When the more than 115,000 stand and sing Take Me Out to the Ball Game during the seventh-inning stretch, it will be the largest sing-along of the third most-popular song in U.S. history. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the baseball anthem written by Albert Von Tilzer and Jack Norworth. The tune ranks as the third most-sung song in the USA, trailing only Happy Birthday to You and The Star Spangled Banner, according to the recently released book Baseball's Greatest Hit, The Story of Take Me Out to the Ball Game. by Seth Livingstone, David Leon Moore | |
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