Fields Of Dreams - Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles, California

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Frederick Dennstedt nether CC-BY-SA license

Los Angeles, too its vecino to the southward Anaheim, convey the 3rd too quaternary oldest stadiums inwards baseball game alongside Dodger Stadium opening inwards 1962 too Angel Stadium inwards 1965. They are 2 of the most wheelchair unfriendly stadiums inwards the major leagues. Angel Stadium volition larn its due, but today we’ll utter nigh Dodger Stadium, which sits at #16 on our listing of stadiums.

Home to the Dodgers, who moved westward inwards 1958 from Brooklyn, the stadium is visually striking…built into a natural bowl alongside views of the San Gabriel Mountains to the north, too downtown Los Angeles to the south. It is on transcend of a colina inwards Elysian Park, only higher upwardly Chinatown too side yesteryear side to the law academy.

Here are the stats:

Opened: 1962
Surface: Santa Ana Bermuda Grass
Construction cost: $23 million
Capacity: 56,000
Field dimensions: Left champaign – 330 ft.; left centre – 375 ft.; Center champaign – 400 ft.; correct centre – 375 ft.; Right champaign – 330 ft.
Home team: Los Angeles Angels (1962 – 1965), Los Angeles Dodgers (1962 – present)
Events attended: Too many Dodger games to count.

It may move old but it wears its historic catamenia well, at to the lowest degree visually. Many partial rehabs convey been done, most latterly yesteryear onetime possessor Frank McCourt adding premium seating behind domicile plate too approximately the dugouts. McCourt kept promising a $500 i M one thousand rehab, but his divorce too his dispute alongside Major League Baseball kept that from happening.

The McCourts are only  bad retentivity now.  New ownership is inwards house via the Guggenheim Group that includes Stan Kasden too Magic Johnson. Paying agency to a greater extent than than the squad was valued...over $2 billion...it remains to encounter how their investment volition pan out. The squad is non doing existent good inwards 2013.

Dodger Stadium is known for its harsh safety measures. Beach balls are confiscated similar a shot too popped. You cannot wander approximately the stadium exterior of the department you lot are sitting in. The riff-raff are zealously kept away from the beautiful people here. The stadium also has a reputation for violence inwards the stands too parking lot...a visiting paramedic from Palo Alto is permanently disabled due to a severe beating he took inwards the parking lot on opening solar daytime - too at nowadays has a $50 i M one thousand trial against the squad for non providing plenty security.

Ticket prices too concession prices had also steadily risen nether the former administration every bit convey other snafus such every bit edifice high-priced baseline seats alongside wretched views, a concession tent inwards the Sun alongside no air conditioning, too paying a psychic half-dozen figures to beam practiced unloosen energy toward the team. 

One of the starting fourth dimension affair the novel owners did is lower the parking price, infamously raised to $15 nether the McCourt regime. It is non $10.  The Dodgers at nowadays role tiered pricing for tickets. The iv tiers convey tickets ranging from $8 inwards the upper deck to $160 for a champaign box seat.

Wheelchair seating is adequate too fairly slow to buy. Mostly approximately the transcend of the champaign section. The team’s spider web site is woefully inadequate for information, exclusively letting you lot know that wheelchair escorting ushers too handicapped parking is available.

There is no regular world transit to the games but a shuttle serves the stadium from Union Station inwards downtown. If you lot convey a ticket it's free, otherwise it's $1.50 each way.  It’s a long walk uphill from the nearest regular charabanc halt on Sunset Boulevard.

Food prices are expensive but they produce convey some diversity such every bit sushi, garlic fries, etc. Their signature item…the Dodger Dog…is awful. The exclusively affair going for it is that the sausage is longer than the bun. (I volition give the Dodgers i affair inwards this area, though...as much every bit I don't similar the nutrient there, it is withal miles ahead of the Angels whose nutrient ranges from mediocre to inedible.)

Now that novel administration is inwards place, we've got to larn dorsum to the Ravine. Hopefully, nosotros tin add together a electrical flow in-person study to this soon. Nice going, Dodgers...hope the futurity holds practiced things for you.

Darryl
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Updated for 2013