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baseball fans: trivia contest

#1 Post by lilyvonschtupp26 » Thu May 22, 2008 9:54 am

ALA and MLB are hosting a baseball trivia contest for kids and adults. Have fun and see how many you can answer w/o looking them up. I didn't know a lot of them, so I've been having a good time with the kids

http://www.ala.org/ala/pio/campaign/spo ... oenter.cfm

I'm having trouble finding the answer to this one:
What stadium hosted the largest crowd ever for a regular season major league game?

I keep finding the record for the LA Coloseum but that was a pre-season game. If you find it, let me know, OK?
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#2 Post by ulysses5019 » Thu May 22, 2008 10:08 am

lilyvonschtupp26 wrote:ALA and MLB are hosting a baseball trivia contest for kids and adults. Have fun and see how many you can answer w/o looking them up. I didn't know a lot of them, so I've been having a good time with the kids

http://www.ala.org/ala/pio/campaign/spo ... oenter.cfm

I'm having trouble finding the answer to this one:
What stadium hosted the largest crowd ever for a regular season major league game?

I keep finding the record for the LA Coloseum but that was a pre-season game. If you find it, let me know, OK?
I don't know the answer. The Dodgers hosted the 1959 (?) World Series with the White Sox. But I'm sure they must have hosted some regular season games with the Giants that were close to sell-outs. At least it seemed that way when I went as a little kid (and I was not a beast).
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#3 Post by Ritterskoop » Thu May 22, 2008 10:44 am

Regular season could be:

74,747 at Yankee Stadium on May 16th, 1947. It was a night game vs the Boston Red Sox.

postseason is probably:

Game 5 of the 1959 World Series between the Dodgers and the White Sox drew 92,762 fans at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. All three WS games drew over 92,300.
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#4 Post by littlebeast13 » Thu May 22, 2008 11:24 am

I believe they regularly drew 80,000+ at Mile High Stadium during the Rockies first two years.....

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#5 Post by littlebeast13 » Thu May 22, 2008 11:28 am

littlebeast13 wrote:I believe they regularly drew 80,000+ at Mile High Stadium during the Rockies first two years.....

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OK, maybe not regularly, but their home opener in 1993 cracked the 80K mark....

http://retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1993/B04090COL1993.htm

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#6 Post by lilyvonschtupp26 » Thu May 22, 2008 12:26 pm

Skoop,
Where did you find the Yankee info? I'm surprised I couldn't find any stats at ballparks.com or through MLB.

thanks,

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#7 Post by Ritterskoop » Thu May 22, 2008 2:05 pm

lilyvonschtupp26 wrote:Skoop,
Where did you find the Yankee info? I'm surprised I couldn't find any stats at ballparks.com or through MLB.

thanks,

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It was a yahoo forum. I would bet beast is right and it's a Rockies game.

Maybe just call the Rockies.
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#8 Post by ne1410s » Thu May 22, 2008 3:19 pm

The old Cleveland stadium held way over 80k. Mebbe when Bob Feller was scheduled to pitch????
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