Here’s a 1959 newsreel of the West Coast’s first World Series game, which of course took place at the Coliseum. The unmistakable voice of Ed Herlihy walks us through the action between the Dodgers and White Sox.
The YouTube title date (October 5, 1959) is incorrect, by the way — Game 3 was the first game in LA and was on October 4th. The three games played at the Coliseum were each record-breaking World Series crowds and are unlikely to be broken: 92,394, 92,650, and 92,706.
Via The Retroist, who points out, “Before we had the constant braying of 24 hours cable news, people got their ‘visual’ news via newsreel”, and links to all the Universal Newsreels now on YouTube.