Dodger games are best on soft summer nights when the overblown sound system takes a break and you get the murmur of the fans — the acoustic purr of the place. “Ice-cold beer here,” a vendor sings.
In the best essay ever written — baseball or otherwise — John Updike once tagged Fenway Park “a lyric little bandbox of a ballpark.”Half-buried in a hillside, like a cask of cowboy loot, it rests in the middle of a tangle of freeways, remarkably simple in design, with groovy space-age angles and a VIP view of the mountains.AdvertisementDodger Stadium’s connective tissue may be concrete, but the classic ballyard — third-oldest in the majors — manages a rustic vibe.
With so many games, baseball is different from football — more casual, less amped, almost genteel. Guys with rakes are always working the field, like yeoman farmers. James Harvey agrees, and he’s seen a few games as well. As the team’s longest-serving usher, “Harv” has been up and down these concrete steps for 49 seasons, guiding patrons to their seats, answering questions, making folks feel right at home.
“I learned everything I needed to know about in my life … how to talk to people, everything,” he says of his early stint as a vendor.
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