Dodger Stadium has symmetrical walls from left to the right, so there are no advantages for hitters. The Dodgers got their revenge in 1981 with a fourth world championship for L.A., and yet again in 1988 under manager Tommy Lasorda, made famous by Kirk Gibson's pinch-hit home run in Game 1. Home page >> Baseball home page >> Stadium lists >> Dodger Stadium Last updated: We present them here for purely educational purposes. One made it to the California Supreme Court, where it lost by a 7-0 count. He found an investor in Union 76, an oil company which gave the Dodgers $11 million in return for exclusive ballpark and broadcast ad rights over a 10-year period. Adding to the green theme, the sides of the ballpark would be heavily enhanced with a vernal paradise of trees, walkways and plants, as if fans would be walking through an expanded botanic garden. Original file ‎(SVG file, nominally 609 × 609 pixels, file size: 24 KB), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 To understand Dodger Stadium, to absorb its simple perfections, you have to be there. There was the electronic drum roll that chattered every time the Dodgers scored—something that irritated Bay Area fans watching Dodgers-Giants games on TV to no end. Ebbets partnered with Edward and Stephen McKeever, brothers who owned a contracting firm that specialized at first in sewers, water mains and asphalt, but later developed large building projects and housing in Brooklyn. This change created a large notch in the corners much like Yankee Stadium. The dimensions going from left to right go from 330 feet, 375 feet, 395 feet in the center, 375 feet, and 330 feet in right field. After their inaugural year in Wrigley Field (L.A.), the Angels spent four years as tenants in Dodger Stadium (calling it "Chavez Ravine") and then moved into Anaheim Stadium. The new seating rows had a very shallow pitch, with the front row slightly below ground level. Community. A rugged hilly landscape that overlooks downtown Los Angeles, Chavez Ravine was for years home to a tight-knit, mostly poor Latino community. The City of Angels felt the need to give the Dodgers the best chunk of available real estate in the Southland, literally moving mountains to wedge a jewel of a ballpark into the sloping, sun-baked Earth amid palm trees and Pacific breezes. Dodger Stadium would secure a reputation as a pitcher’s park soon enough, but the Dodgers’ bats found little trouble producing strong numbers in the ballpark’s first year; the 409 runs they scored would be the most at Dodger Stadium until 2006 as they finished 54-29 at home.