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If you go to the Coliseum this Saturday, March 28th, you won’t find a USC soccer game, a rock concert or a football scrimmage. You won’t find a football field at all. What you will find are a mound, a diamond and 115,000 nostalgic fans. The largest crowd of baseball fans ever assembled to watch a game. Yes…baseball. This Saturday the Dodgers return to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum to mark their 50th anniversary in the city of Los Angeles, in an exhibition game against the 2007 World Series Champion Boston Red Sox.

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The Coliseum was the first LA home for the men in blue, when the Brooklyn Dodgers made cross country switch in 1958. The Dodgers continued to play at the Coliseum for four years, until Dodger Stadium was completed in 1962.

So cardinal and gold will be replaced with blue and white as, for the first time in fifty-years, the Dodgers retake their home field. One very weird shaped home field, as you can imagine. According to the AP, the Coliseum baseball field is far from symmetrical. The foul pole is 201 feet to left and 440 feet to right, making left field uncomfortably tiny. So tiny, probable Dodger left-fielder Juan Pierre was concerned about the balls.

“I’ll be like 180 feet from the hitters, and those Boston guys hit the ball pretty hard,” Pierre said. “I might have to wear a cup.”

Peanuts anyone?

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