Baseball is often referred to as America's National Pastime. Stadiums are full of cheering fans, but few think of the ugly history behind the very stadiums they sit in. Chavez Ravine was a thriving Mexican-American community before being forced out for the Dodger Stadium.

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Sources:
https://medium.com/@kinggsoto/the-three-chicano-communities-buried-underneath-dodger-stadium-bddc2d4312e https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Chavez_Ravine#:~:text=The%20Battle%20of%20Chavez%20Ravine,in%20Los%20Angeles'%20Chavez%20Ravine. https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2017/10/31/561246946/remembering-the-communities-buried-under-center-field
Stealing Home: Los Angeles, the Dodgers and the Lives Caught in Between by Eric Nusbaum https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/chavez-ravine

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