Dodger Stadium is an icon of Los Angeles. The massive structure comes complete with a parking lot that can accommodate 16,000 cars. And that parking lot was built on the remains of a community that was literally dragged from their homes so they could be leveled for new construction. 

Join us as Larkin sorts through the tale of displacement and discrimination behind one of the largest ballparks in the U.S.

References

Follow Minna Lee Jameson: https://www.instagram.com/minnaleejamison

LA Dodgers

https://www.laalmanac.com/sports/sp06.php

They Moved Home Plate! How baseball’s geography has evolved with the US

Jenny Schuetz and Cecile Murray

March 28, 2018

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/how-baseballs-geography-has-evolved-with-the-u-s/

NY Times Archive Article 1957

https://www.nytimes.com/1957/10/09/archives/dodgers-accept-los-angeles-bid-to-move-to-coast-team-will-play-in.html

Gabrielino/Tongva Nation of the Greater Los Angeles Basin

State of California Native American Heritage Commision

https://nahc.ca.gov/cp/tribal-atlas-pages/gabrielino-tongva-nation/

Jackie Robinson Foundation

https://jackierobinson.org/jackie-robinson/

HIstory - Jackie Robinson’s Battles for Equality on and off the Baseball Field

Martin Stezano

https://www.history.com/articles/jackie-robinson-color-barrier-baseball

Negro League

https://www.britannica.com/sports/Negro-league

Farm Team

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farm_team

History Baseball owners allow Dodgers and Giants to move

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/may-28/baseball-owners-allow-dodgers-and-giants-to-move

PBS SoCal - Lost LA

Once Upon a Time in Chavez Ravine

https://www.pbssocal.org/shows/lost-la/clip/once-upon-a-time-in-chavez-ravine

Where is Chavez Ravine, Exactly?

Nathan Masters

September 8, 1014

https://www.pbssocal.org/shows/lost-la/where-is-chavez-ravine-exactly

PBS SoCal - They Moved Mountains to Build Dodger Stadium

https://www.pbssocal.org/shows/lost-la/they-moved-mountains-to-build-dodger-stadium

Before the Dodgers

https://www.pbssocal.org/shows/lost-la/episodes/before-the-dodgers

Chavez Ravine: Community to Controversial Real Estate

https://www.pbssocal.org/shows/lost-la/chavez-ravine-community-to-controversial-real-estate

The Dark Heart of Dodger Stadium: The History of Chavez Ravine

Lauren Vandivier

April 25, 2025

https://thelemur.org/2025/04/25/the-dark-heart-of-dodger-stadium-the-history-of-chavez-ravine/

CHAVEZ RAVINE AND THE DODGERS: MYTHS AND REALITIES

John Caragozian

California Supreme Court Historical Society: Sept. 28, 2021 issue of the Los Angeles Daily Journal

https://www.cschs.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/History-Resources-Caragozian-Chavez-Ravine-the-Dodgers.pdf.pdf

CLU Smart Justice: Chavez Ravine - Elysian Park

https://www.callutheran.edu/college-arts-sciences/history/civilliberties/chavez_ravine_civil_liberties_ver2.html

Julian Chavez, the Old Spanish Trail

Angela Reiniche

https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/julian-chavez-the-old-spanish-trail.htm

Proclamation 2257

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-2257-pacific-mercado-international-exposition-and-worlds-fair

National Parks Service - Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo

https://www.nps.gov/cabr/learn/historyculture/juan-rodriguez-cabrillo.htm

LA Times 48-Year-Old Armory Rises From Ashes to Serve Again

DENISE HAMILTON

Oct. 2, 1986

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-10-02-ga-3747-story.html

WPA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_Progress_Administration

Aurora Arechinga Vargas

https://share.google/images/ENoOTovry4l6kYQzw

Eminent Domain - Cornell

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/eminent_domain

Barrio

https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/barrio

Arroyo 

https://www.britannica.com/science/arroyo

​​NPR - Remembering the Lost Communities Buried Under Center Field

October 31, 2017

Janice Llamoca

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2017/10/31/561246946/remembering-the-communities-buried-under-center-field

HUAC

https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/education/presidential-inquiries/house-un-american-activities-committee

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