Another real estate agent had an idea for the Dodgers to combine their baseball stadium with a race track. The agent’s idea was to place the baseball stadium in Santa Anita where the agent claimed there was public transportation and “more parking space than the Coliseum and the Rose Bowl put together.” The agent even had practical ideas how the stadium could be fitted into the race track. “Just put up a wire fence around your outfield and set up temporary bleachers.” The agent was optimistic it could be done. “The Racing Season at Santa Anita ends before the Baseball season, so there is no problem” according to the agent. The same agent also had, as what he said was, the “perfect site” for Walter O’Malley to live at the former location of the greenhouses of the Botanical Gardens. There was an available 2 ½ acres, room for a large house and pool, and room for 12,000 to 15,000 cumbidium orchid bulbs worth more than $75,000!” The agent concluded “knowing that O’Malley is an orchid fancier, I felt this was for him!” It wasn’t.

Fans all over Southern California were also interested in providing solutions for O’Malley for a baseball stadium. One fan wrote in to say thirty minutes from downtown in the northwest part of town was a location to be reached by five freeways. The fan added at the end of his letter, “Keep me in mind.”

Another fan wrote to O’Malley and asked him to “Read slowly—well,” and then queried O’Malley if there was enough land owned by Universal-International in Studio City for a stadium. The fan wanted O’Malley to know everything was on the hush-hush with him as he wrote O’Malley, “Check that. I heard a rumor.” The Universal land later became much of Universal Studios.

One fan had a stadium location site, but also a complaint. He recommended a place south of the San Bernardino Freeway and claimed he would get help from the Long Beach Freeway connecting to the San Bernardino Freeway. After offering this advice, the fan added that at a recent game at the Coliseum, he wanted to buy a scorecard, but the program hawker would not sell a program unless the fan would buy a five cent pencil. The fan already had three pencils with him and wanted to know if this was team policy that you had to buy a pencil with the scorecard. Actually, it was not.

A real estate investor said the sale of property near Hollywood Park would be a place for a baseball stadium. The investor raved about the sufficient room, the available transportation, it was outside smoggy areas, and best of all, the use of Hollywood Park parking lots would be available.