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19 euclids (giant earth-movers) were on the job (each euclid carried 24 cubic yards of dirt per load and 100,000 cubic yards of dirt was moved per week)
48 lounge rooms (24 for ladies and 24 for gentlemen), most-ever for a stadium at the time
If Dodger Stadium seats were arranged in one long row, they would stretch 33.7 miles
50,000 chairs would comprise 40 railroad carloads
Cast grey iron in chairs weighs 550 tons
Stadium arranged by colorful levels: All Field Level seats were yellow; Loge Level seats were orange; Stadium Club and Dugout Box levels were red, yellow and blue; Reserved Level were turquoise; and Top Deck were sky blue
Average width of Dodger Stadium seats are 20 inches
Unobstructed vision from every seat because of cantilever theory, in which there are no pillars or posts between a single fan and the game
Fans are afforded opportunity to watch games from seven different front row elevations and no grandstand is deeper than 20-odd rows
There are more vertical aisles in Dodger Stadium than in any baseball park ever built before, allowing for a capacity crowd to exit the stands in only five minutes at the conclusion of a game
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Seating for 3,000 in each of two outfield Pavilions
70 percent of seats within the infield area
Terraced parking eliminates vertical climbing
27 lanes of traffic off 6 major access roads
Symmetrical playing field: 330 feet down the right and left field foul lines, 380 feet to both left and right center and 410 feet to dead center field
Nearly 60 x 90 feet of front office space in left field corner
2 major elevators, one for fans to access some box seats and other for press and Dodger personnel
Initial “Club Level” concept with seating, nearby parking and Stadium Club dining for members at the “Diamond Room” restaurant and the “Abner Doubleday Lounge”
Largest message board (248 characters) in baseball (left field) and 75 x 34 feet scoreboard (right field)
The four scoreboards (two in outfield and two auxiliary positions) use 400,000 feet of wire, 17,000 lamps and enough electricity for 200 homes. The auxiliary scoreboards (55 feet long by 4 1/2 feet high) on balcony railings allow fans to keep up the game’s basic information
8 banks of “reflectorized” lights would have, at the time, produced enough illumination to light up the city of Seattle — in excess of four million watts
More than 10 miles of steel and aluminum conduit and 50 miles of insulated copper wires
Open-weave 120 x 30 foot nylon screen, dark green in color, for batter’s eye background
Where the playing field lies was a 590-foot dirt hill which had been excavated from the Hollywood (101) Freeway
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