The Dodgers set a single-game attendance record at the Los Angeles Coliseum on May 7 1959, when they drew 93,103 fans to an exhibition game against the New York Yankees to honor paralyzed catcher Roy Campanella.

On March 29 the Dodgers will face last year’s World Series Champs, the Boston Red Sox, in a spring training game before 90,000, as all the existing tickets for the game were sold out within an hour of being put on sale!

Two-thirds of the tickets were purchased by season-tickets holders, who were given the opportunity to purchase them three days prior to the general sale. Ticekts were priced at $25, $15, and $2. All of the proceeds will go to ThinkCure, which aims to raise funds for cancer research. (The charity was modeled after the Jimmy Fund, the oficial charity of the Red Sox.)

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