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Dodger Stadium
1000 Elysian Park Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90012-1199
(323) 224-1500
Dodger Stadium
Dodger Stadium History
Dodger Stadium is one of Southern California's most treasured
landmarks and the 2008baseball season will mark the Dodgers 47th year
at Chavez Ravine.
More than 125 million fans have visited the ballpark since it opened
in 1962 awing spectators with a breathtaking view of downtown
LosAngeles to the south; green, tree-lined Elysian hills to the north
and east; and the San Gabriel Mountains beyond. The 56,000-seat Dodger
Stadium has parking for 16,000 automobiles on 21 terraced lots
adjacent to the same elevations as the six different seating levels.
More than 3,400 trees cover the 300 acres of beautiful landscape,
which is maintained by a full-time staff of gardeners. The Dodgers
employ a full-time grounds crew and maintenance staff that keeps all
aspects of the stadium in immaculate condition throughout the season
making Dodger Stadium one of the best maintained facilities in the
country.
The Dodgers installed a brand newstate-of-the-art grass field after
theconclusion of the 1995 season. Prescription Athletic Turf (PAT),
created and installed by the Cincinnati-based Motz Group, usedthe
latest agronomic and engineering technology to managefield moisture
through controlled drainage and irrigation. The 100,000 square feet of
bermuda grass is grown on pure sand, beneath which a vacuum chamber is
laid over a water-tight plastic barrier that forcibly extracts water
during heavy rains. New moisture gauges monitor the field's water
level in coordination with a microprocessor that controls drainage
functions. A computer controller has the ability to reverse the
scenario and subirrigate when the sand's moisture reading drops below
the optimal level.
Clearly, the changes have paid off, as the Dodger Stadium field was
named the best in baseball by Sports Illustrated in 2003 in a poll of
Major League players. Of the responses, 23.2 percent of players rated
Dodger Stadium as the best-quality playing field, more than twice as
many as any other stadium.
At the gates, an average of more than 2.79 million fans have watched
Dodger games at DodgerStadium per season during the past 45 years. In
1978, Dodger Stadium became the first ballpark to host more than three
million fans in a season when the Dodgers drew 3,347,845 in
attendance. Following another three-million attendance mark in 1980,
the Dodgers set the all-time Major League season attendance record in
1982, drawing 3,608,881 fans. Toronto, Colorado and Atlanta have since
topped that mark, but the Dodgers can also boast seasons of more than
three million in attendance from 1983-86, 1990-91, 1993 and 1996-2006.
Nine of the top 25 NL single-season attendance marks have been
recorded at Dodger Stadium.
During the 20th century, the only privately-financed ballparks in
Major League Baseball were Yankee Stadium (built in 1923) andDodger
Stadium. Walter O'Malley and architect Emil Praeger set the stage for
baseball's most popular and beautiful showplace when theybegan
designing the Dodgers' newhome. The stadium opened its doors on April
10, 1962 and the Dodgers won their first game at their new home the
next day on April 11 when they defeated the Cincinnati Reds, 6-2. The
Dodgers drew 2,755,184 fans at Dodger Stadium during its inaugural
season.
Since then, Dodger Stadium has hosted eight World Series and the
Dodgers have won four World Championships (1963, 1965, 1981 and 1988),
eight NL pennants (1963, 1965, 1966, 1974, 1977, 1978, 1981, 1988),
nine NL Western Division crowns (1974, 1977, 1978, 1981, 1983, 1985,
1988, 1995, 2004) and two NL Wild Card berths (1996, 2006).
The stadium hosted the Major League Baseball All-Star Game in 1980 and
the Olympic Games' baseball competition in 1984. The eight-team
competition during the 1984 Olympic Games marked baseball's greatest
involvement in the Olympic Games to that point.
The Olympic spirit returned to Los Angeles again in 1991, as Dodger
Stadium hosted the Opening Ceremonies for the United States Olympic
Festival. Later that summer, the stadium showcased the top amateur
baseball players from around the world in the second annual
International Baseball Association World All-StarGame.
Dodger Stadium has been the site of several non-baseball major events,
as Pope John Paul II celebrated Mass at Dodger Stadium on Sept. 16,
1987. Entertainers from around the worldhave performed there as well,
suchas KISS, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, The Bee Gees, Elton
John, Simon and Garfunkel, Michael Jackson, David Bowie, Genesis,
EricClapton, U2, the Dave Matthews Band, and Bruce Springsteen and the
E Street Band. Dodger Stadiumalso staged one of the world's greatest
entertainment events in 1994 In January 1999, the Dodgers announced a
program of investment and limited renovation of Dodger Stadium to help
make itmore economically competitive with other ballparks across the
nation. By the start of the 2000 season, the Dodgers added new field
level seats down the foul linesbeyond the dugouts and a new expanded
dugout section with an adjacent club area. In addition, suites were
added on the Club Level to provide amenities that are now available at
every other Major League ballpark. In 2003, a new scoreboard,
DodgerVision video board and cutting edge control room were added to
enhance the overall fan experience. In an effort to turn Dodger
Stadium into a more environmentally-friendly ballpark, several
modifications were also made. The addition of a new stadium-wide
cooling system will lower temperatures in all concession areas. Other
environmental improvements include adding hand dryers in the restrooms
and moving to waterlessurinals, which will save up to 2.4 million
gallons of water annually onthe Field Level. Additionally, the club
replaced the previous stadiumlighting structure with an energy
efficient one - Musco's Light-Structure Green system. The new lights
will conserve energy by reducing more than 95% of the light that falls
outside of the stadium and will keep unnecessary light out of the eyes
of the players and fans
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