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The Worst of Baseball Stadiums

The Los Angeles Dodgers moved to Los Angeles in 1958. The Dodgers current home is called Dodger Stadium, from 1958 until 1961, the Dodgers played in Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum was both, a baseball and football stadium.

The coliseum was in horrible condition, some parts of the field had grass and some did not, the foul territory on the third base side was wider than the entire infield, and the room on the first base side had no room. The Dodgers had to put an outfield fence instead of a wall, the stadium had huge gaps for the outfielders to cover.

The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum had many homeruns hit in the stadium, the reason is left field, the left field fence was a right handed hitters dream, only 250 ft. away from homeplate. The coliseum is the biggest baseball field in Major League Baseball history, the coliseum also holds the largest attendance in baseball history for a game with 93,105 fans attending a baseball game.

Today, the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum is still in service, to a football team, the USC football team. After the Los Angeles Dodgers left the coliseum, the Los Angles Raiders and Rams played there. The coliseum was one of the worst places to play baseball, but the capacity had helped baseball grow in Los Angeles.