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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?

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).

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.

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

lb13

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

lb13

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

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

lb13

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

thanks,

Lily

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,

Lily

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

Maybe just call the Rockies.

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