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Walter O’Malley

The Dodgers, less than three months abandoning after Brooklyn, are planning to move into the Los Angeles Coliseum in 1958.

Of course, that does not stop the always-negotiating Dodgers owner Walter O’Malley from talking 66 years ago today with the Pasadena City Board about instead using the Rose Bowl as their temporary home.

Baseball plans for the Rose Bowl

Major League Baseball in a stadium built only for football?

Not a great look, but possible, given plans to convert the Rose Bowl into a baseball stadium with fences set at 300 feet down the left- and right-field lines with 460 to straightaway center.

Of course, the Dodgers eventually move into the L.A. Coliseum – yes, a football-first facility – as their home for four seasons until Dodger Stadium opens in 1962.

The dimensions at the Coliseum are a ridiculously short 250 feet down the left-field line, a short-but-not-outrageous 301 to right and 425 to center.

Dodger Stadium remains today as one of the game’s classic ballparks, the majors’ third oldest ballpark after the equally iconic Fenway Park and Wrigley Field.

Baseball at the Los Angeles Coliseum