I'm a transplanted Midwesterner in L.A., but in the few years I've been here I've come to love Dodger Stadium as one of my favorite things about this city. I go to other parks now and they just make me appreciate Chavez Ravine all the more. Here's why:
- clean, uncluttered, pure baseball park
- great sightlines
- beautiful views of the mountains, especially from the top deck
- inexpensive: $6 for decent seats behind home in the top deck (that's where the true fans sit - the ones keeping score), only $10 for better seats on the reserved level; no other stadium can touch this!
- the most diverse crowd in the major leagues
- not much advertising, not a lot of bells and whistles, no faux 1920's unusual outfield config, no high powered sound system, just a great organist and a classic PA announcer
- right in the middle of the city (and only ten minutes from my place!), surrounded by the hills of Elysian Park
- the sunsets
Now, if the Dodgers could just score some runs...
