Dodgers to mark 50th anniversary in L.A. with game in Coliseum

ESPN ^ | 11/26/07 | various

[BurbankKarl]

instant sellout

[SevenofNine]

Sweettttt

[La Enchiladita]

I remember those days...

Pinging the fans.

[topher]

They are called the Dodgers as people in Brooklyn about 100 years ago had trouble dodging the street cars.

Too many people were killed by the street cars, such that Dodger became a term for surviving in Brooklyn -- just crossing the street...

[EveningStar]

SoCal ping

[al baby]

GO RAIDERS !!!!

[doug from upland]

Yep, I saw several games there. Perhaps the best was Duke Snider Night. He hit a homerun and a triple.

The Wall Moon “moonshots” were a thing of beauty.

The should have ripped out some seats, however, and made a real left field fence.

[La Enchiladita]

What a great night that was, Doug. Lucky you to be there.
Duke Snider is my all time favorite Dodger.

I only remember some games vs. Cincy Reds, with my friends and I having a great time up in the high seats.

[DoughtyOne]

Instant sellout is right. And I loved that quip about the Dodgers returning before the NFL. LOL, that was a good one.

I’ve often thought the Dodgers should have added on to fill in that center field bleacher section, making the statium go all the way around. If they modernized it and tapped all the modern possibilites they could make a bundle off that section.

They sell out so many games as it is. They could probably add another twenty thousand seats and still fill them.

[Doomonyou]

Must Watch TV.

[doug from upland]

Larry Sherry won 2 and saved 2 in the 1959 Series against the ChiSox. ERA - 0.71.

[La Enchiladita]

Larry Sherry, woo hoo. Look at that ERA!!
I collected all the Union Oil booklets on the Dodgers, then later lost the collection. Darn.

[dalereed]

I remember that, it was 3 weeks before we got married.

I hated when they opened Dodger Stsdium, they created a trafic jam 2 blocks from our office and made a few hours durring every home game miserable.

[BurbankKarl]

It is scary. I was reading how most of the Dodger fan base is either too young to remember the 1988 World Series, or hadnt snuck into the country by then.

[Uncle Hal]

I attended that game. I was a senior at USC and only lived a few blocks away. In fact I attended the first few games they played.

[Ditto]

They sell out so many games as it is. They could probably add another twenty thousand seats and still fill them.

Keep in mind that this is LA.

If 'anybody' could get tickets, no one would want to be there. ;~))

[Mr. Lucky]

I last saw the Dodgers when they played at Ebbets Field and I’ll buy another ticket when they play there again.

[DoughtyOne]

Funny you should mention that. I’ve been to games where a considerable number of field level seats were empty even though it was close to a sellout.

[DoughtyOne]

Ooo, that hurts.

[Diver Dave]

When the Dodgers moved to LA, that created a need to for a Triple A farm team on the West Coast and my hometown got that honor. Spent many a summer’s evening watching the Spokane Indians play.

A highlight in the 58 and 59 season was having the Dodgers come to town to play “the kids” in an exhibition game. Saw my hero, Duke Snider up close.

Some of those “kids” would be called up over the next few years - Maury Wills, Tommy Davis, Willie Davis, Larry and Norm Sherry, Roger Craig... the list goes on.

Now I’ve never seen a game in LA, but did see my first Dodger/Giants game back in ‘87 after moving to California. And who do you suppose was coaching the Giants? Roger Craig with Norm Sherry assisting. How cool is that?!?

Thanks for the memories