Dodger Stadium has been the home of the Los Angeles Dodgers Major League Baseball team since 1962. It was also the home of the Los Angeles Angels between 1962 and 1965. The park is still also sometimes referred to as Chavez Ravine (more formally as Chavez Ravine Stadium), after the name of the site where it was constructed, and the name used by the Angels organization during their tenancy. Los Angeles Dodgers National League AAA Las Vegas 51s AA Jacksonville Suns A Columbus Catfish Vero Beach Dodgers R Ogden Raptors Gulf Coast Dodgers Brooklyn Dodgers redirects here. ... Major League Baseball (MLB) is the highest level of play in professional baseball in North America. ... 1962 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim American League AAA Salt Lake Stingers AA Arkansas Travelers A Rancho Cucamonga Quakes Cedar Rapids Kernels R Orem Owlz Mesa Angels For the Pacific Coast League franchise see: Los Angeles Angels (PCL). ... 1962 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1965 was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ...

Despite being technically in a ravine, it is also on a hillside that overlooks downtown Los Angeles, and is prominently visible, most dramatically during night games.

It holds 56,000 fans and was designed to be capable of expansion to 85,000 seats. It has a unique terraced-earthworks parking lot behind the main stands, which allows ticketholders to park at roughly the level that their seats are, minimizing their climbing and descending of ramps once they get inside the stadium. The design is also alleged to be earthquake-resistent, certainly an important consideration in that part of the country.

It was the only park of its era designed specifically for baseball, and with the construction of many new major league ballparks in recent years, is now one of the oldest still in use. However, being privately owned, and maintained with a level of pride that is typically missing from public facilities, it has stood the test of time very well, and no plans are in the offing to replace it.

Because of overall poor visibility for hitters, fairly large dimensions and a large amount of foul territory, Dodger Stadium has enjoyed a well-deserved reputation as a pitchers' park. Several power pitchers such as Sandy Koufax, Don Drysdale and Fernando Valenzuela became superstars after arriving in Los Angeles. This significant advantage was eroded somewhat in 1969, in general when the rules were changed to lower the maximum height of the pitchers mound, and specifically when the Dodgers moved the diamond about 10 feet towards center field. This also gave the fielders more room to catch foul balls, so there was some tradeoff. Sanford Braun Sandy Koufax (born December 30, 1935) strung together five amazing seasons as a Major League Baseball left-handed starting pitcher in the 1960s before arthritis ended his career at the age of 31. ... Donald Scott Don Drysdale (July 23, 1936 - July 3, 1993) was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball. ... Fernando Anguamea Valenzuela was a star left-handed pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers Major League Baseball team during the 1980s, and one of the few players from Mexico to achieve baseball superstardom in recent years. ... 1969 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ...

Dodger Stadium was the first Major League Baseball stadium since the initial construction of Yankee Stadium to be built using private financing only, and the last until Pacific Bell Park was built. Yankee Stadium is the home of the New York Yankees, a major league baseball team. ... SBC Park (formerly Pacific Bell Park) is a baseball stadium, home to the San Francisco Giants of the National League. ...

2005 will be Dodger Stadium's 44th season, just 1 year shy of the Dodgers' duration at their storied ancestral home, Ebbets Field (1913-1957). In the mid-1950s, team president Walter O'Malley had tried to convince the Borough of Brooklyn to construct a new stadium, complete with dome, to replace the woefully cramped Ebbets Field. Walter eventually got his stadium, except it was in Los Angeles, thankfully in the open air. And barring unforeseen circumstances, Dodger Stadium should outlive Ebbets Field by a good margin. 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Ebbets Field was a Major League Baseball park in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, New York. ... 1913 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... 1957 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Walter Francis OMalley (1903-1979) circa 1940-1950 Walter Francis OMalley ( October 9, 1903 - August 9, 1979) was an American sports executive who owned the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers team in Major League Baseball from 1950 to 1979. ... The Brooklyn Bridge in 1890, seven years after its opening Kings County in New York State Brooklyn is the most populous of the five boroughs of New York City. ...

Source for dimensions:

• Baseball annuals

External links

• History of the stadium (http://losangeles.dodgers.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/la/ballpark/la_ballpark_history.jsp) on the Dodgers website

Aerial photo

• Aerial photo of Dodger Stadium from Microsoft Terraserver (http://terraserver.microsoft.com/addressimage.aspx?t=4&s=10&lon=-118.240797583987&lat=34.0742195904995&alon=-118.24446700&alat=34.072515&w=1&opt=0&qs=1000+Elysian+Park+Avenue%7cLos+Angeles%7cCA%7c&addr=1000+Elysian+Park+Ave%2c+Los+Angeles%2c+CA+90012)
• on Google maps (http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.073346,-118.240077&spn=0.005096,0.007918&t=k&hl=en)