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What stadium does the Dodgers play in?

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The Los Angeles Dodgers are an American professional baseball team based in Los Angeles.

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The Dodgers compete in Major League Baseball as a member club of the National League West division.

What stadium does the Dodgers play in?

The Dodgers play in the Dodger Stadium, a baseball stadium in the Elysian Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.

The Dodger Stadium opened in 1962, and was constructed in less than three years at a cost of US$23 million (US$206 million in 2020 dollars).

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Dodger Stadium, image via: spectrumnews1.com

It is the oldest ballpark in MLB west of the Mississippi River, and third-oldest overall, after Fenway Park in Boston (1912) and Wrigley Field in Chicago (1914), and is the largest baseball stadium in the world by seat capacity.

A total of 8 million cubic yards (6,100,000 m3) of earth were moved in the process of building the stadium and a total of 21,000 precast concrete units, some weighing as much as 32 tons, were fabricated onsite and lowered into place with a specially built crane to form the stadium’s structural framework.

The stadium was originally designed to be expandable to 85,000 seats by expanding the upper decks over the outfield pavilions; the Dodgers have never pursued such a project.


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