Ted LOVES fireworks! Lucky for him he has a family of pyromaniacs -erm- pyroTECHNICS I mean. Yesterday his chaperon Jenny was asked to help shoot off fireworks at Dodger Stadium, home of the Los Angeles Dodgers!
Here is Ted helping to set up all of the fireworks "shells" behind the scenes. Each explosive gets shoved into one of these black PVC pipes and wired to a pin board.
The pin board is then wired to a main control box, where the lead technician fires each numbered shell according to directions fed to them through their headphones.
One of the perks of being on the fireworks crew is great food. Here Ted helps Jamie cook up some burgers with the expert use of a crowbar.
Here's some fun facts about Dodger Stadium
- There is parking available for 16,000 cars.
- Hosted 1984 Olympic competition
- In 1991, the stadium hosted the Opening ceremonies for the United States Olympic Festival and later that summer showcased the top amateur baseball players from around the world in the second annual International Baseball Association World All-Star Game.
- There were no drinking-water fountains when Dodger Stadium was first built.
- Original design had a huge fountain in center field, like that in right-center at Kansas City’s Kauffman Stadium.
- The see-through "peekaboo" windows in the bullpen fence were installed in 1974.
- There is no "400" sign in dead center field (it was taken down in 1980) - the two "395" signs are just left and right of straightaway center field
- The stadium is expandable to 85,000 seats.
- When foul poles were installed in 1962, it was discovered that they were positioned completely foul. A special dispensation was received from the National League so that they were recognized as fair, but the next year the plate was moved so that the poles are now actually fair.
Stay tuned for Ted's next adventure!
(interesting facts via: baseball-statistics.com)
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