Ballpark

Roosevelt Stadium

Jersey City · 1956–1957 · config 1957

Favors hitters

(+0.2 runs for the away team)

Dimensions

LF 330′ · LFA 397′ · LC 397′ · CF 411′ · RC 397′ · RFA 397′ · RF 330′

Walls LF 4′ · CF 4′ · RF 7′

Dodgers' occasional New Jersey home during Brooklyn exit years

Average foul ground

Capacity 24,000

Brooklyn's New Jersey spare room while the West Coast calling grew louder.

Overhead diagram

Roosevelt Stadium overhead schematicLF 330′LFA 397′LC 397′CF 411′RC 397′RFA 397′RF 330′4′ wall4′ wall7′ wallAverage foul groundStands not in library

Photograph

Roosevelt Stadium 1972.jpg
Roosevelt Stadium 1972.jpg · Danny McKiernan from Summerville, SC, USA / Wikimedia Commons · 1972 · CC BY 2.0

About this park

Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City hosted Dodgers games as a Brooklyn alternative — a hitters' lean in the book and a ferry ride from the city. Temporary geography; real box scores.