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It turns out the largest crowd ever at a baseball game was 93,000—at the Los Angeles Mem orial Coliseum in May 1959 for an exhibition game between the Dodgers and Yankees. Remarkably, fans were asked that day to light a match in tribute to Dodger great Roy Cam panella, who was on hand after being disabled in a car accident.

If you have time, ask Chris Epting something about the 80-year-old stadium. He’ll rattle off a dazzling array of factoids, including tidbits about the Dodgers’ four years there before they got their own park.

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