On March 29, 2008, the Los Angeles Dodgers hosted the defending World Series champion Boston Red Sox in front of 115,300 fans for an exhibition game at the L.A. Memorial Coliseum.
The crowd represented the largest ever for a baseball game, surpassing the approximately 114,000 fans that saw the Australian national team face an American services team during the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne.
The game was scheduled to commemorate 50 years since the Dodgers franchise moved from Brooklyn to Los Angeles. The Dodgers spent four seasons playing at the Coliseum before Dodger Stadium opened April 10, 1962.