While Dodger Stadium was being built, the Dodgers played at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum through , before the true Opening Day- April 10, - when the Dodgers finally played in their new home before 52, fans. The 56,seat Dodger Stadium, the first privately financed ballpark since Yankee Stadium in , is a reflection of the careful study Walter O'Malley put into this seminal project.
Praeger designed the stadium so that each entry is at grade -- from the Top Deck to the Field level seats. The 21 terraced entrances on the six different seating levels presents a unique vertical circulation along the landscaped plazas around the stadium perimeter and each section of seating has parking immediately adjacent the entrance.
There is parking for 16, cars on site, carved as the stadium is, into the hillside of Chavez Ravine. Fickett's contribution of style and color gives the building a uniquely Southern California 's "modern" style. It was the first of 21 National League pennants that the Dodgers would win during the next years.
The moniker "Bridegrooms" was attached to Manager William "Gunner" McGunnigle's ballclub because seven of the players got married around the same time in Despite the success of the Bridegrooms, McGunnigle didn't last past the initial year and the team paraded through six different managers before the end of the decade.
Ebbets and Ned Hanlon Welch 7. Valenzuela 6. Guerrero 7. Pena 5. Guerrero 5. Guerrero 6. Valenzuela 5. Sutton 5. Cey 5. Smith 6. Cey 6. Alston and T. Messersmith 6.
Wynn 7. Crawford 5. Sutton 6. Allen 5. Grabarkewitz 6. Osteen 6. Haller 4. Drysdale 4. Koufax 9. Koufax 8. Davis 8. Wills 6. Drysdale 5. Drysdale 7. Drysdale 6. Drysdale 3. Alston Brooklyn Dodgers NL 84 70 0.
Podres 5. Alston Brooklyn Dodgers NL 93 61 0. Snider 7. Alston Brooklyn Dodgers NL 98 55 1. Snider 8. Alston Brooklyn Dodgers NL 92 62 0. Alston Brooklyn Dodgers NL 49 1. Snider 9. Dressen Brooklyn Dodgers NL 96 57 2. Robinson 8. Dressen Brooklyn Dodgers NL 97 60 1. Robinson 9. Dressen Brooklyn Dodgers NL 89 65 1. Robinson 7. Shotton Brooklyn Dodgers NL 97 57 2.
Shotton Brooklyn Dodgers NL 84 70 1. Robinson 5. Durocher , R. Blades and B. Shotton Brooklyn Dodgers NL 94 60 1. Branca 6. Sukeforth and B. Shotton Brooklyn Dodgers NL 96 60 1. Stanky 6. Durocher Brooklyn Dodgers NL 87 67 1. Galan 5. Durocher Brooklyn Dodgers NL 63 91 1. Galan 6. Durocher Brooklyn Dodgers NL 81 72 0. Durocher Brooklyn Dodgers NL 50 1. Reese 6. Durocher Brooklyn Dodgers NL 54 3. Reiser 8. Durocher Brooklyn Dodgers NL 88 65 3. Camilli 5. Durocher Brooklyn Dodgers NL 84 69 4.
Camilli 6. Batting helmets were introduced to Major League Baseball by the Dodgers in For the first half of the 20th century, not a single African-American played on a Major League Baseball team. The first step in ending this injustice was taken by Jackie Robinson , when he played his first major-league game on April 15 , , as a member of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
This event was the harbinger of the integration of sports in the United States, the concomitant demise of the Negro Leagues , and is regarded as a key moment in the history of the American Civil Rights movement.
Robinson was an exceptional player, a speedy runner who sparked the whole team with his intensity, and was the given the inaugural Rookie of the Year award. After the wilderness years of the s and s, the Dodgers were rebuilt into a contending club first by general manager Larry MacPhail and then the legendary Branch Rickey.
Podres won two Series games including the deciding seventh. Brooklyn fans had their memory of triumph, and soon that would be all they were left with. Real estate businessman Walter O'Malley had acquired majority ownership of the team in , when he bought the shares of his co-owner Branch Rickey. Before long he was working to buy new land in Brooklyn to build a more accessible and better arrayed ballpark than Ebbets Field.
Beloved as it was, Ebbets Field had grown old and was not well-served by infrastructure, to the point where the most pennant-competitive team in the National League couldn't sell the park out even in the heat of a pennant race. Moses' vision involved a city-built, city-owned park, which was greatly at odds with O'Malley's real-estate savvy.
When it became clear to O'Malley that he wasn't going to be allowed to buy any suitable land in Brooklyn, he began thinking elsewhere. When the Los Angeles city fathers attended the World Series looking to entice a team to move to the City of Angels, they weren't even thinking of the Dodgers.
Their original target was the Washington Senators who would in fact move to Minnesota in At the same time, O'Malley was looking for a contingency in case Moses and other New York politicians refused to let him build the Brooklyn stadium he wanted. O'Malley sent word to the Los Angeles officials at the Series that he was interested in talking.
Los Angeles offered him what New York would not: a chance to buy land suitable for building a new ballpark. Meanwhile, New York Giants owner Horace Stoneham was having similar difficulty finding a replacement for his antiquated home stadium, and the two archrival teams moved out to the West Coast together. There has been much controversy over the move of the Dodgers to California, perhaps more than over any other franchise move of that era.
Walter O'Malley, in particular, is described as villainous by some and admirable by others. Certainly he demonstrated some measure of selfishness and greed, but the same is also true of the New York City politicians who opposed him.
Both sides were quite stubborn, and fatally misjudged each other. It should also be noted that Brooklyn had declined in many ways, under various social pressures, and was a much less desirable location for a baseball team than it had been. In fact, both sides in the stadium dispute proposed to remove the Dodgers from Brooklyn Moses' plan for a team in Flushing Meadows was realized several years later, with little alteration, in the New York Mets.
O'Malley also deserves credit as a visionary. Until , St. Louis had generally been the westernmost outpost of Major League Baseball, whereas 12 of baseball's 30 teams now have their homes farther west.
O'Malley was primarily concerned with making himself very rich which he did , and certainly he broke the heart of many a New Yorker, but his move also helped lead the game of baseball to greater prominence and prosperity. The process of building Walter O'Malley's dream stadium soon began in semi-rural Chavez Ravine, in the hills just north of downtown L. There was some political controversy, as the residents of the ravine, mostly Hispanic and mostly poor, resisted the eminent domain removal of their homes, and gained some public sympathy.
Still, O'Malley and the city government were determined, and construction proceeded. In the meantime, the Dodgers played their home games from to at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum , a gargantuan football and track-and-field stadium that had been built to host the Summer Olympics. The Coliseum's dimensions were not optimal for baseball, and the only way to fit a diamond into the oval-shaped stadium was to lay the third-base line along the short axis of the oval, and the first-base line along the long axis.
See picture. This resulted in a left-field fence that was only some feet from home plate, and a foot screen was erected to prevent home runs from becoming too easy to hit. Still, the season saw home runs hit to left field in the Coliseum, while only 3 were hit to center field and 8 to right field. Dodgers outfielder Wally Moon , newly acquired for the season, became adept at launching lazy fly balls over the screen, which became known as "Moon shots.
In , the Dodgers benefited from a general decline in the National League. No team was dominant, and several teams were in the thick of the pennant race until the very end.
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