Boston Red Sox + Los Angeles Coliseum =

The largest crowd ever for an American baseball game. 92,000 tickets sold out almost immediatly in February when the Dodgers placed the tickets on sale, this led the team to make available over 20,000 standing room only tickets for the game. The crowd will exceed the baseball record of 93,103 set at this very stadium when the Dodgers honored Roy Campanella, it could also exceed the Michigan/Ohio State attendance of 112,118. Outside of NASCAR, Saturday's game could draw the largest crowd in American sporting history. Fans should expect some scoring too. Manny Ramirez should be drooling from the batters box all game, the left field wall will sit just 200 feet from home plate. Picture of baseball layout in 1958 New York Times story on game

Torre, Mattingly Heading To Dodgers

Joe Torre is expected to be introduced as early as Tuesday as the new manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Don Mattingly will join Torre as his bench coach. The move comes about 10 days after turning down a 1 year offer to remain with the Yankees, the offer included a option and included incetives based on playoff performance. Torre rejected that offer feeling he had earned the security of a multi year guaranteed deal. The Yankees on Monday formally offered the job to Joe Girardi bypassing Mattingly who many felt was the heir apparent to Torre. Girardi got a multi year guaranteed deal which seems to back up many peoples feelings that the Yankees purposely lowballed Torre knowing he wouldn't accept thus trying to look good in the fans eyes.