When the Sun Sets at Dodger Stadium

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When the sun sets at Dodger Stadium, I

am impressed first of all with the

mountains because, at this time of year,

they are fully defined. It makes me think of

some of the great artists who did Western

paintings — Frederic Remington, Charles

Russell, Frank McCarthy, to name a few

— because they must have been inspired by

that.

And then the cloud formations. At sunset,

they turn pink. And as it continues, the

closer you are to sunset, the clouds are still

kind of gold. Farther away in center field

and right field, you’re away from the

sunset and the clouds are turning purple.

So you think of an artist’s palette with

various colors, and it just takes your

breath away.

Down on the field, a ballgame is just

beginning. But the sunset becomes a

major distraction because it’s so

overwhelming it’s hard to take your eyes

off it. And then the palm trees — there’s a

group of palm trees on the hill behind left

field — they are defined against the sky,

and they are turning colors with the

sunset. You can’t see that anywhere else in

a ballpark.”

Vin Scully

Los Angeles Times, August 21, 2003

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