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Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum

Los Angeles · 1958–1961 · config 1961

Favors hitters

(+0.1 runs for the away team)

Dimensions

LF 252′ · LFA 380′ · LC 380′ · CF 420′ · RC 380′ · RFA 380′ · RF 300′

Walls LF 42′ · CF 8′ · RF 6′

41-ft left-field screen — football Coliseum mashed into baseball

Cavernous foul ground

Capacity 92,572

A football coliseum with a skyscraper screen in left. Pull it or die.

Overhead diagram

Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum overhead schematicLF 252′LFA 380′LC 380′CF 420′RC 380′RFA 380′RF 300′42′ wall8′ wall6′ wallCavernous foul groundStands not in library

Photograph

Aerial view of Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, 1987.jpg
Aerial view of Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, 1987.jpg · Thomas Kelsey, Los Angeles Times / Wikimedia Commons · 1987 · CC BY 4.0

About this park

The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum hosted Dodgers baseball after Brooklyn — a football cathedral with a left-field screen so close it became legend. Temporary baseball in a giant bowl: pull it to the screen or watch it die in the vastness elsewhere. Short chapter, unforgettable geometry.