When the Dodgers first moved from Brooklyn to Los Angeles, they didn't have, you know, an actual ballpark waiting for them. Walter O'Malley's famous helicopter ride over downtown LA was the first seed of Dodger Stadium, but the current home of the Dodgers wouldn't be in fighting shape until before the 1962 season, so the team played 1958-61 home games in a retrofitted Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, a classic venue typically associated with University of Southern California football and the occasional Olympiad.
Regarding all of that, and courtesy of @MLBCathedrals (a must-follow on Twitter), here's a look at Coliseum all done up for some baseball ...
Plenty of seats available!
As you may be able to surmise from the above image, the Coliseum had a pretty bizarre layout when set up for this, our baseball. Via Clem's Baseball Blog, here's a closer look:
Free advice for the batsman: Hit it to left, not center. Or anywhere else, really. To be fair, though, the Dodgers raised a 40-feet screen in left to compensate for those impossibly cozy dimensions (you can make it out in the top-most image above). Said left field "wall" was not called "The Invisible Monster" but probably should have been.
Related: The Dodgers in the 1959 World Series, in which they prevailed over the White Sox, drew more than 90,000 for each of their three home games.
