Could Dodger Stadium have been renamed the Dodger Dome?

Capt. Emil Praeger, designer of the Chavez Ravine ballpark, told reporters at Vero Beach, Fla., about plans to add a dome after the stadium was finished.”

I realize that we didn’t have any rainouts in Los Angeles last season and we’re not worried about that,” owner Walter O’Malley said. “But perhaps there would be sufficient demand for a covered stadium in which to present such events as industrial exhibits, conventions and the like.

“If we find, say, in five or 10 years that there is a demand for such a facility as we propose, the dome will be built.”

The Dodgers had discussed the concept of a dome stadium in Brooklyn when the team was searching for ways to replace Ebbets Field.

–Keith Thursby