FACTBOX-Record attendances in sport

(Reuters) - The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum played host to a record crowd for a baseball game on Saturday with 115,300 people paying to watch the Boston Red Sox beat the Los Angeles Dodgers in an exhibition game.

The mark smashed the previous record of 93,103 at the same stadium for another exhibition game in 1959 and broke an unofficial mark set in 1956 at the Summer Olympics in Melbourne when an estimated 114,000 watched a five-inning exhibition between Australia and the United States.

That crowd at the Melbourne Cricket Ground was primarily there to watch track and field events, according to Mark Langill, Los Angeles Dodgers team historian.

Following are some of the biggest crowds to watch sporting events.

* BASKETBALL - 80,000 at Olympic Stadium, Athens, Greece for the European Cup Winners Cup won by AEK Athens over Slavia Prague, April 4, 1968.

* BOXING - 135,132 at the Tony Zale versus Billy Pryor fight at Juneau Park in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in the United States, August 16, 1941.

* CRICKET - The biggest recorded one-day attendance for a cricket match was 90,800 in Melbourne on the second day of a test between Australia and the West Indies, February 11, 1961.

- A combined 394,000 watched the test between India and England at Eden Gardens, Kolkata (then known as Calcutta) in India, January 1-6, 1982.

* ICE HOCKEY - 71,217 at a National Hockey League game at Ralph Wilson Stadium in Orchard Park, New York between the Buffalo Sabres and the Pittsburgh Penguins, January 1, 2008.

* SOCCER - 199,854 at Maracana Municipal Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for the 1950 World Cup final between Brazil and Uruguay, July 16, 1950.

* TENNIS - 30,472 at the Astrodome in Houston, Texas for the "Battle of the Sexes" exhibition between Bille Jean King and Bobby Riggs, September 20, 1973.

(Source: Guinness World Records)

(Reporting by Bernie Woodall; Editing by Peter Rutherford)