I wrote earlier today about Wrigley Field in Los Angeles, the original home of the California Angels. I’ve been reading more about Wrigley LA today and I found some interesting information about its use as a football stadium. The field’s strange dimensions made it hard to fit a full football field, so they just squeezed it in the best they could and cut out a small piece of the back of each end zone. I’m not sure if any other football fields were like this in the country, although I know most football teams pre-1970 did play in stadiums designed for baseball, including such famous cathedrals as Fenway Park, Yankee Stadium, and even Wrigley Field in Chicago. Here’s an overhead view of the football field lines drawn on Wrigley Field Los Angeles in 1948:

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