I think it was worth mentioning that this was the stadium that the old "Home Run Derby" tv show was filmed in. Loved that show! :)
@RetroJR3379
Жыл бұрын
Used to watch it all the time back when ESPN Morning wasn't all Stephen A
@triadmad
Жыл бұрын
Seeing that show on ESPN or MLB Network (I can't remember which) was the first time I ever heard of Wrigley, LA.
@teddyroebuck6773
Жыл бұрын
I think I have 3 DVDs of the show, used to watch them with my Dad all the time - watching Hank Aaron definitely helped me with my swing in Little League
@RetroJR3379
Жыл бұрын
@@teddyroebuck6773 I think theres a few on Apple TV
@mattyg4186
Жыл бұрын
So fun fact from me being a ballpark & stadium buff, this was called Wrigley field before chicago was. Wrigley Chicago wasn’t called Wrigley until 1927 while LA was called Wrigley starting in 1925.
@elsongs
Жыл бұрын
The 1958 motion picture version of the musical "Damn Yankees" was filmed at Wrigley Field Los Angeles. The Wrigley Field site today is now a community center, but a few yards to the west is a little league diamond which is called "Wrigley Little League Field."
@eas211000
Жыл бұрын
In addition to Home Run Derby, Wrigley Field LA was also the filming location of the Twilight Zone episode The Mighty Casey
@monica93304
Жыл бұрын
I love the look of it! I'm a sucker for vintage stadiums.
@martincruz8319
Жыл бұрын
Wrigley Field in Los Angeles was the home of "Home Run Derby", a short lived TV show whiched featured show from the late 1950s or early 1960s. I don't know what network aired it at the time, but Classic Sports Network (now ESPN Classic) showed it in the mid 1990s. [Corrected typographical error in spelling.]
@RedRaiderLobo20
Жыл бұрын
The 1050s? Atilla the Hun defeats Genghis Khan on a swing off lol
@martincruz8319
Жыл бұрын
@@RedRaiderLobo20 Thanks for pointing out my errors. Spelling and other typographical mistakes have been corrected.
@bdpopeye
Жыл бұрын
Home Run Derby was a syndicated program. The host Mark Scott had a fatal heart attack at age 45 on July 13th 1960 and the producers decided to cancel the show.
@9999bigb
Жыл бұрын
I think its a beautiful stadium, Wrigley. Love the Mediterranean/Art Deco hybrid architecture, it fits the area so well
@kjorlaug1
Жыл бұрын
You forgot a BIG aspect of this and MLB alternate history. In 1941, the Browns had an agreement with LA to purchase and expand Wrigley field LA for their planned relocation in 1942 to LA. The owners vote was schedule for December 8, 1941 with a press conference at the Brown Derby already scheduled. Then Pearl Harbor...
@bombasticanimal1853
Жыл бұрын
Interesting... I did not know that! 😀 Would have been a travel nightmare, though... one team all the way on the west coast... air travel in its infancy... Probably wouldn't have been approved anyway...
@kjorlaug1
Жыл бұрын
@@bombasticanimal1853 evidently the deal was set to be approved and they had worked out the transportation with TWA and Union Pacific. Would've been very interesting to see the difference in modern day MLB if that had happened
@xJakePrice
Жыл бұрын
@@kjorlaug1Dodgers might’ve stayed in Brooklyn as a result
@9999bigb
Жыл бұрын
@@xJakePriceand therefore no Mets. So, it'd be Yankees/Dodgers. The Giants would have probably moved to Minneapolis like they were basically going to move to in 1955.
@xJakePrice
Жыл бұрын
@@9999bigb Minnesota Giants would be so weird lmao
@slimphotog
Жыл бұрын
I love that tower and the whole jewel box vibe.
@cysuyenaga
Жыл бұрын
The Dodgers traded Wrigley Field for land in Chavez Ravine with the City of Los Angeles, which was taken through eminent domain. I drove by Wrigley Field in 1969, shortly before it burnt down.
@jeffreythomson2979
Жыл бұрын
Still get a kick watching the videos of the original Home Run Derby at Wrigley, with Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, Ernie Banks, Hank Aaron Harmon Killebrew and many others. About the same as watching a Hall of Fame preview. Shows are less than half an hour long and the quality is pretty good.
@RetroJR3379
Жыл бұрын
Wrigley Field LA wasnt the only old stadium in LA there were also Gilmore Field
@billlong8385
Ай бұрын
Gilmore was home to the Hollywood Stars.
@spartacus3250
Жыл бұрын
My Grandpa told me about coming here to see the Angels play here that 1 season, he personally loved the stadium
@jaymega1293
Жыл бұрын
Your programs on stadiums and ballparks are great but now PCL ballparks…awesome! It would be great if you did one on Seals Stadium in SF. I literally did my shopping there yesterday lol.
@billlong8385
Жыл бұрын
Went to my first professional baseball game at old Wrigley. PCL LA Angels vs SF Seals.
@Da818-SP
Жыл бұрын
You can still visit where the ballpark was, There is now a neighborhood park.
@Michael-sb8jf
Жыл бұрын
Espn classic used to air Home run derby show from the 1950's or something they hosted the challenges here and said they did so because it favored no batter handedness
@aidenmoss5316
Жыл бұрын
I loved the classic home run derby
@biglos9d
Жыл бұрын
It has a Shibe Park feel
@rnklv8281
Жыл бұрын
Nice history lesson. A bit before my time when I first started following baseball, had no idea the stadium once existed. I vaguely remember once reading that Wrigley had/owned real estate holdings in California (perhaps it was the Catalina Islands?) which might explain why a Midwest businessman would build a ballpark in Los Angeles California (or did he have ownership in the PCL club?). Perhaps the Cubs once had Spring Training here (before the formation of the "Grapefruit and Cactus Leagues".
@thescott7539
Жыл бұрын
The Angels were affiliated with the Cubs. The Cubs would spend several seasons on Catalina for spring training.
@Ibhenriksen
Жыл бұрын
"From the wonderful world of sports, we bring you Home Run derby...where each week"
@RRaquello
Жыл бұрын
With the planned but unbuilt enclosed outfield seating, it kind of looks like Tiger Stadium. The small dimensions helped some of the Angels players put up career best numbers. The most obvious case being Ken Hunt, who hit 25 HR's and drove in 84 runs, which was more than the combined production of the other 5 years of his career. But it didn't help their pitchers stats.
@thomaswolf723
Ай бұрын
Wrigley set a record in 1961 for the most home runs hit at a major league ball park.
@dennismaleski3107
Жыл бұрын
You missed a very big part of the history of this place. This is where the original "Home Run Derby" television show was filmed!
@stevenpautz7190
Жыл бұрын
It was also used for a 1950"s version on Home Run Derby and a movie call Kid from Left Field
@iplayfhorn
Жыл бұрын
I wonder if the reason the sides were open like that was possibly to allow airflow, and generate a breeze through the grandstand? Just a thought.
@billlong8385
Ай бұрын
You are correct.
@chuckdacon4797
7 ай бұрын
I use fact that the Angels played one season there in a trivia question. What American League team played one season at Wrigley Field? Nobody has ever got it.
@RetroJR3379
Жыл бұрын
It mightve worked the Dodgers played couple season while Dodger Stadium is being built and perfect for the Angels and wouldve ranked as same class as Fenway & Wrigley Field Chicago
@thescott7539
Жыл бұрын
Dodgers deemed it too small for MLB. That's why they picked the Coliseum instead.
@iplayfhorn
Жыл бұрын
@@thescott7539 From one extreme to the other. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@billlong8385
Ай бұрын
@@thescott7539Yes. The Dodgers opted for seating capacity rather than a real ballpark. The O'Malley family knew they would build a new, real baseball stadium.
@Lawomenshoops
3 ай бұрын
The site of the first night MLB game at Wrigley Field in 1961. Roger Maris hit 2 HR’s at Wrigley Field during his record breaking season
@cjsansoo7
5 ай бұрын
I actually played a game there right before it was demolished. The grass was knee-high and the ball was hard to find once it left the infield.
@RonaldKraus-w1c
3 ай бұрын
Classic Clock Tower!!!
@HighpointerGeocacher
4 күн бұрын
He said at 4:51 that the "Colisseum is a dump," but in 1958 the Colisseum was not as old and the neighborhood around it had not declined as it has since then.
@dchaz3.0dacan18
4 ай бұрын
I use this as a triva question that nobody ever got. "What American league team played an entire season at Wrigley Field"?
@MrChristopherMolloy
Жыл бұрын
I'd love to see a video of Washington Park III which was a Federal League Stadium in Brooklyn. It was said to be a "near duplicate" of the Wrigley Field in Chicago.
@JosephPusateri-FLA
5 ай бұрын
You forgot Homerun Derby TV show late 50’s
@verbalkint5450
4 ай бұрын
I saw those years ago, I think on "The Ed Randall Show'.
@erinmsomers
Жыл бұрын
My dad's uncle lived 2 blocks away from it back in the 50s
@panowa8319
Жыл бұрын
Hosting an MLB team for one season. It's kind of like Sick's Seattle Stadium hosting the Pilots, except the Pilots relocated and became the Milwaukee Brewers, while the Angels remained in Los Angeles.
@iplayfhorn
Жыл бұрын
And Wrigley Field didn’t suck.
@GoOp790
Жыл бұрын
Can you do a history over Kansas City Municipal Stadium? Both Royals and Chiefs played there before arrowhead and the K
@brucehartnell1475
5 ай бұрын
The only neighborhood in LA that’s worse than where the coliseum is is where Wrigley Field was. That probably had something to do with any decision to keep the Angels there.
@verbalkint5450
4 ай бұрын
Read that Wrigley put lights in this park in 1930's, of course not coming to Chicago's until 50+ years later.
@BobGlassett
Жыл бұрын
Would the Angels have wanted to stay? I am not sure what happened in the neighborhood since 1961.
@ktcottrell
Жыл бұрын
growing up in LA, I've heard of this park and I believe it still exists as little league park or something, but I don't know much about it. I think I've seen signs for it near the freeway and stuff. It's a shame that its not an iconic park.
@atlhoe564
Жыл бұрын
Demolished in 1969
@ktcottrell
Жыл бұрын
@@atlhoe564 right but when they demolished the stadium, the land turned into a community center that includes a park and little league field named wrigley little league field.
@atlhoe564
Жыл бұрын
@@ktcottrell Gotchu
@bombasticanimal1853
Жыл бұрын
So... where did the Los Angeles Angels play after 1961 and before The "Big A" opened (in 1965 or 1966 I believe)?
@brianmoore6724
Жыл бұрын
Dodger Stadium
@darryljorden9177
Жыл бұрын
@@brianmoore6724 No no! Chavez Ravine!😄
@rnklv8281
Жыл бұрын
I had read that the stadium was called Chavez Ravine while both the Dodgers and Angels hosted baseball games there. It may be officially today (by Dodger Ownership) be called Dodger Stadium, but it's probably not uncommon hearing it still referred as Chavez Ravine or the Ravine by some baseball fans.
@brianmoore6724
Жыл бұрын
The Angels called it Chavez Ravine when they played there so as not to be constantly mentioning the dodgers but it was never officially the name of it. Chavez Ravine was the name of the Hispanic neighborhood that was removed for the stadium.
@billlong8385
Ай бұрын
After one year at Wrigley, the Angels moved and became lowly tenants at Dodger Stadiuum. They couldn't bring themselves to call it Dodger Stadium, so they called it Chavez Ravine (the actual location).
@jesusm2159
Жыл бұрын
Video of most underrated stadium mlb past n now please
@dustineiffler7145
Жыл бұрын
The TV show home run derby was filmed there
@tubasungod
Жыл бұрын
The OAKLAND Coliseum is a dump. The LA Coliseum is not.
@danieljackett4193
Жыл бұрын
The narrator ripped on LA Wrigley Field for the 345 power alleys, but the Coliseum's LF alley was 320
@tubasungod
Жыл бұрын
@@danieljackett4193 That doesn't make it a dump, just inappropriate for baseball despite the Dodgers winning a World Series there.
@billlong8385
Ай бұрын
@@tubasungod The Coluseum was inappropriate for baseball but the Dodgers chose capacity vs style. We had tix to '59 World Sreies. Gave 'em away. They were out by the clock and torch...you could barely make out the players.
@tubasungod
Ай бұрын
@@billlong8385 What are you trying to prove with this strange response? 🤷♂️
@shaindaman13
Жыл бұрын
I was just trying to read up on this one the other day. Im a Cubs fan so it piqued my interest. Too bad they couldn’t save it
@ldfreitas9437
Жыл бұрын
THE DODGERS AND GIANTS SHOULD HAVE BECOME THE ANGELS AND SEALS.
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