nathangotsch:

For the first few years they were in Los Angeles, the Dodgers played their home games in the LA Coliseum—even though it was designed for football and track & field—while they waited for Dodger Stadium to be built.

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the team’s move from Brooklyn to LA (and to raise some money for the official team charity, Think Cure), the Dodgers and the Red Sox played a special exhibition game tonight in the Coliseum that was attended by over 115,000 people, the largest crowd ever to watch a baseball game. (To compensate for the short porch in left field—only 200 feet from home plate—a 62-foot mesh fence was erected, similar to Fenway Park’s Green Monster.)

AP Photo by Kevork Diansezian