Red Sox Go To The Moon
Monday, March 31, 2008 12:56
A record crowd packed into the Los Angeles Coliseum on Saturday to watch the Los Angeles Dodgers take on the Boston Red Sox in a Major League Baseball pre-season exhibition game.
The Dodgers called the Coliseum home for four years after moving west from Brooklyn in the late 1950s. In 1959 LA outfielder Wally Moon mastered the art of blooping fly balls – ”moonshots” – over the 41-foot-high fence that was only 250 feet down the left foul line. (more…)

By T. C. Moore