Monday morning I went on a tour of Dodger Stadium with Brian's family. The tours run 90 minutes and are $15 per person. They run twice each morning that the Dodgers don't have a day game. The tour guide was quite knowledgeable. You have to enter the stadium thru the main gate.  Parking is free. If you're a Dodger fan and have never been, I highly recommend it. You can get more information by googling Dodger Stadium tours.

The tour took us down the elevator to the field level.  The walls throughout the stadium have interesting old photos and exhibits of old year books, World Series tickets etc.

 

This is in the hallway as we stepped out of the elevator on the field level.  Those five players were league MVP's.  The closest is for Kirk Gibson in the 1988 World Series season. Along the adjacent wall was a display of about 25 gold glove trophies. This hallway led to the doors of the club houses.  I was a little disappointed we couldn't see them, but I can understand why.

 

This hallway also went into a restaurant that is for the mucky mucks who sit in the $500 seats shown below.  Once you walk thru the restaurant and up ten steps, you are on the field level.

 

They let us sit in the $500 seats behind home plate at field level. Shown above are my daughter-in-law Selina, my grandson Ethan, Brian's brother Wyatt from Carla's 2nd marriage, Brian and my granddaughter Amelia. Those seats are cushioned and sit just above field level.

 

They took us into the Dodger dugout.  It wasn't strewn with sunflower seeds or spit like you see on TV during a game.  Thankfully.  The floor is made of a hard rubber substance.

 

If you sit at the top of the bench you can just see out onto the field.  There is about a 2' gap where a foul ball can zip into the dugout above the protective railing.  They let us walk out onto the track that surrounds the grass field.  The track is made of ground up cinders.  We were told not to even touch the grass or a mean grounds keeper will come and whack you with his rake.  LOL 

 

The tour took us up into the Vin Scully press box.  This is the view from there. To the right of where I was sitting was the media center that runs all the score boards and where the organ player sits. It is protected by bullet proof glass to protect the workers from foul balls.  The writers who sit where this photo was taken from are on their own.  

 

It was a very enjoyable morning at the ball park.  The tours start and end near an open souvenir store of course, and an open ticket booth.  We bought tickets for the evenings game with the Mets.