Opinion | Corbin Smith: As coronavirus keeps sports stadiums empty, fans should ask what secrets lurk beneath them. - NBCNewsTHINK
The baseball stadium for the Los Angeles Dodgers that would become Dodger Stadium under construction in the Chavez Ravine region of Los Angeles on May 25, 1960.May 20, 2020, 8:31 AM UTCWith Major League Baseball sidelined as a consequence of COVID-19, 30 massive stadiums sit idle, silently waiting for cheering fans to fill them once again.
," author Eric Nusbaum answers that question for Dodger Stadium. His loving, rigorous rendition of this story — of an ostensibly noble idea undercut by a wave of paranoia and bad faith to allow the depressing triumph of the wealthy and the well-connected — helps us remember that, for all that we rely on sports to entertain us by being modern-day fairy tales, their underpinnings can tear people down, not just build them up.
As we behold the void in these palaces of sport, it’s worth taking a moment to ponder: How did these hulking things get built in the first place? Nusbaum charts the destruction of the communities of Palo Verde, La Loma and Bishop, which were tucked in a canyon known assmack dab in the middle of Los Angeles.
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