Dodger Stadium

56,000 fans can come and enjoy the baseball action whenever they visit Dodger Stadium. When this stadium was built from 1959 to 1962, it cost team owners a total of 23 million dollars ($191 million in 2018 dollars). The stadium, parked in the Elysian Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, is the home for the Los Angeles Dodgers. It is the oldest ballpark in the MLB west of the Mississippi River, and the third-oldest overall just behind Fenway Park and Wrigley Field. It also holds the distinction of being the largest baseball stadium by seat capacity. Many legends come with the stadium including the twelve no-hitters (including two perfect games) that were played in the stadium earning it the nickname “pitcher’s ballpark”.

The Dodger Stadium was one of the last baseball-only venues to be built before the big rush for multi-purpose stadiums. Because it was intended for one use, Dodger Stadium was designed with several innovative features including a covered and screened section of dugout-level seats behind the home plate. This feature was inspired when Walter O’Malley saw the design at Tokyo’s Korakuen Stadium during the Brooklyn Dodgers’ postseason goodwill tour of Japan in 1956. This innovation was later replaced by more conventional seating in a 1999 renovation. It also features a wavy roof atop each outfield pavilion.

Dodger Stadium is loved because of the great baseball games that fans get to see as well as the obvious love and care that the owners take with keeping it as one of the best looking stadiums in the world.