0:10--man, I'm telling 'ya...we should still have that right now in 2011. The great Ebbets Field should be standing on this cool and windy East Coast offseason day (12/28/2011), and the tarp should be on the field right now, keeping it in positive shape for the 2012 season. That fat-ass PIG o'malley fucked us really good, man. Our Bums (mind you, I wasn't around for those "Boys of Summer" years. I'm only a 29-year old Yanks fan) should still be here--WITH US!--in BK.
...We have the Nets (Brooklyn Nets!!!!!) coming here in October 2012. (Thanks, Jay! That's a man 100-times better than walter o'malley.) Barclays Center ("The Bar") is almost done. And we're just about ready, son! I know I'm ready. I'm getting ready to sell all of my orange & royal blue Knickerbockers crap! :D Watch, we will turn those modern bums (Brooklyn's basketball bums!) into winners again (they've already won two basketball titles back in the 70's as the ABA's N.Y. Nets). WATCH! 2016!!!!!
I was born & raised in Los Angeles and when the Dodgers came west, in 1958, I was 11. It wasn't until 35 years later, when I had formed The Committee To Elect Gil Hodges Into Baseball's Hall of Fame, that I began to realize what the Dodgers had meant to Brooklyn. It was, obviously, a love affair between the fans and the Dodgers. I only wish that I could have been a young man, living in Brooklyn, during the late 40's and 1950's. I suspect it would have been baseball Heaven. Love you Gil....
A man named Modell tried to do this kind of thing to the NFL' Cleveland Browns.. it was wrong. Thankfully we somehow stopped him from taking the name, history and colors. These things become a part of your soul.
First of all , it's Dodgers, NOT Dogers!!! My dad & I stood & watched them tear it down. I was 9 at the time. My dad had a friend whose father owned a rooming house where the opposing teams would stay when they came to Brooklyn. That was back in the 30's. He gave me a couple of autographed balls - Giants & Pirates of late 1930's. Oh yeah, 1 more thing - Robert Moses was a goddamn putz.
@turkeytonite Ebbets Field Apts. a great place to live at first viebrint community life You could see half of Brooklyn if you lived on the higher up floors. The Bldg . sponsored Boy Scout and Cub Scout troops I lived there from 1963 till 1968 It was miss managed then became that welfare tower . These days when i see it in a pic. i think of the theme song from the show Good Times
ITS A DISGRACE THE DODGERS left Brooklyn its a fucking disgrace!!!! and the giants are forgotten they ALSO left!! what a travesty. People should get the gas chamber for teams like the dodgers, giants, sonics moving!
I am 74 years old which makes me 10 years old the year Jackie Robinson joined the team in 1947. From that time until January 1956 when I went into the military I was a die hard Bums fan. Still have a photo of the 1955 team in my den and balls signed by Duke and Sandy in my living room wall unit. Have model of Ebetts Field and statues of the nine players of the 1955 team which my son bought me for one birthday, I haave a ball cap given to children attending game as a souvenir. Miss Bklyn.
@Mr3271937 thats so cool my uncle used to go there for a school trip once and a while and he met Gil Hodges. He always tells me stories about the games and im 14 and i love basebal and i live in manhatten and i miss the dodgers even though i never got to thee them play my uncle has made me feel like i did. My dad also lived down the block from Ebbets but he wasnt born yet before the stadium was torn down
Bro we need Brooklyn dodgers back. That Shit pissed me off when it became a project. I wish I would of lived back in the days and watch a game. Smh great video
The Dodgers should of never left. Now if you look at what was once a great ballpark and even greater baseball legacy, is a bunch of raggedy buildings with equal residents, who know nothing of the past history of culture of the Brooklyn Dodgers and what it played for baseball and New York City.
Ebbets Field should have been declared a community monument. It could have been made into a baseball museum, or even a commercial attraction, where people paid admission for a tour. There could have been exhibits with figures that moved or told a story about games and players like Babe Herman, Jackie Robinson, Koufax.
My Dad was the Team Dentist for the Brooklyn Dodgers. I was 6 years old when the Dodgers left Brooklyn and my whole family was invited to move to LA with the team but my Mom didn't want to leave Brooklyn, so we stayed in Brooklyn. Walter O'Malley was a man ahead of his time - he wanted to build a Domed Stadium in Brooklyn - but the Big "Mac" (Robert M.) insisted that the new stadium be built in Queens. The Dodgers belonged in Brooklyn and were forced out by the Big Mac who ruined it all!
Ebbets Field may have been old, but the memories are just as fresh as if they happened today. A hot dog and a soda $0.65. God love the Brooklyn Dodgers.
If you're going to post a video on the Internet please take two seconds to make sure your spelling is correct. It's really tough when the title of your project is misspelled.
Was in Brooklyn 2 days ago and had opportunity to go for a 3 mile run by Ebbets apts. Did not feel safe in the area...run down. Cool to see where the ball field once stood...history.
evidently the place where the new nets arena is being built in brooklyn was the same place where omalley wanted to build the new dodgers stadium but the NYC planning and building commissioner wanted it built in queens so omalley left for LA??
@mohammedmali1 i would have just moved to queens but tht was his desision but he had a chance to stay in ny but just move to a different burrow so he moved to the other side of the country
@sparkey9889 i think the building commissioner had a financial interest in getting a stadium built in queens plus making sure it was a new franchise, california didnt want one team they wanted two so the dodgers and giants both left.i think the stadium omalley proposed in brooklyn wouldve been the first one ever with a roof over it??heres a real stat on the yankees-red sox game the other night ken singleton said the dodgers have played more games in L.A. now then they did in brooklyn.
NYC Metro is big enough to have 3 MLB teams. The rivalries today would be just as strong as they were in the past. And they would generate hundreds of millions in revenues.
When I was growing up in Brooklyn, people used the name "walter omalley" as an insult. It was the moral equivalent of a pejorative such as a "benedict arnold". May both burn in Hades for eternity.
i agree n im the biggest yankee fan u will ever meet but wrigly to me is a great ballpark but for all the tht think citi field is like ebets field its really not they just have to rotundra but fenway is an amozing ballpark n it would b a shmae if the sox got a new stadium
They should not have demolished Ebbets Field. It was truly a beautiful ballpark. Tiger Stadium was a year older than Ebbets, and it was only demolished over 2008-09. I feel bad to see all the old ballparks go. In my life, I've seen the demise of Comiskey Park (1910 - 1991), Tiger Stadium (1912 - 2009), and now Yankee Stadium (1923 - 2010). Hopefully, the Cubbies and the Red Sox keep their historic parks.
they shouldnt have knocked it down i have a thing for old fields i mean honestly if they built a new white house would they knock down the old one and put apartments there? heck no it should be the same with baseball
O'Malley wanted to stay. He was going to pay for the new stadium and even had plans for a retractable dome. The NYC government sent their jewel away. Let's not forget that same gov. showed the Giants the road out of town as well.
everyone knows it was a bad idea to knock it down just look at tiger stadium in detriot ppl can go and c the history thr and everything else and did u notice tht in every MLB video game they but old stadiums and they never include ebbets feild and i feel tht they should have put tht in
One of the sadest periods in my life was when our beloved bums moved west . Ebetts field was like a temple and the religion was Brookllyn Dodgers baseball
Ebbets Field never should have been allowed to been razed. The Dodgers move ripped the heart and soul out of this borough and it still has yet to recover. The ballpark should have stood and put the 1962 Mets in there instead of the Polo Grounds.
Its an utter shame that this cathedral to baseball history was torn down and replaced with a bunch of apartment buildings housing the inner-urban animals responsible for the demise of the borough
Maybe Ebbets field was inadequate as stated by O'Malley, but he did want to keep the team in Brooklyn. The city refused to build him a stadium. Ironically, from what I understand there is a stadium being built at O'Mally's proposed site for a new stadium for the Dodgers at Atlantic and Flatbush Ave. Bottom line, it's a great tradgedy that the Dodgers left Brooklyn and it hurts me today to think about the fact that NYC government let an incredibly beloved institution like the Dodgers go.
The Dodgers should have remained in Brooklyn but the greed of Walter O'Malley took them away. But as for EBBETS Field, It has been rebuilt, but the only problem is that they rebuilt it in Queens and call it CITI Field now.
citi field only has the fron tht looks like ebbets not the whole ballpark but i really do think tht thye should have stayed in brooklyn my dad and his family only lived like 5 blocks from ebbets field and when it was born it got knocked down but since im in Queens hes taken me to c were it was a coupel of times and i just keep saying imagine if the dodgers stayed in brooklyn mabye just mabye they would have made history
Also, you spelled "there", wrong when you made the statement, " This is what should be their. It is spelled THERE not their, Must be a NYC school graduate.
If the Dodgers had stayed there'd be no Mets. And Brooklyn would have had 9 more NL Championships, 17 more post season appearences, and 5 more WS Championships since 1955. Some Mets fans are former Brooklyn Dodgers fans and they still hate O'Mally for taking there beloved Bums away. However they hate the Yankees so much that they root for the Mets. LOL!
if the dodgers had stayed then they wouldnt have been the brookyln dodgers, ebbots field would have been destroyed anyways because they had to move to where the mets play today, the dodgers left because they felt betrayed and wouldnt have been the brookyln dodgers anymore so the wnt to la. yeah i wish that stadium was stll there, but hey im glad i have a good team to root for down here in la instead of ending up with a team like the padres.
Yes they made there own history in LA. The Dodgers are a prestegious(sp?) organization and probably one of the last teams if not the only team that owns there own stadium last time I checked a few years back. Dodger Stadium is still a beautiful ballpark. Next to the new Yankee Stadium of course. LOL! If the Yankees don't make the post season I'll root for the Dodgers. NO Mets! No Redsox! LOL!
lol well im not much of a yankee fan but looking at old parks does make you sad take detriot for example tiger field just sits there in ruin and its cool to see that its still there yet sad to see that they let it rot. and as for the postseason i do hope that the mets, redsox, phillies, cardinals, and braves dont make it
well everybody doesnt like the mets but the phillies can just shut up cuz they cant say anything bout how there winning n red sox i really dont care bout but cards i kinda like them but i just like wanwright but the braves dont have a chance
well the padres do suck im gonna say it but i do like the dodgers and i like the angles but i just like angle stadium but for the dodgers i like how thr fans always remember the times they had in brooklyn
well to me the dodger and yankee rivaly was great anf look at the play with berra and robinson tht was really funny to c yoggie a lil short guy just go off on the ump lol but mets fans hate yankee fans cuz we kicked thr asses in 2000 but the giants nobody talks about anymore its always the Dodgers
0:41 (1941 National League Champions! I hear my borough went nuts when that happened)--BROOKLYN, YOU BASTARDS!!!!! :D
I dare anybody to come out here and say something positive about o'malley. Trust...you probably will not be standing up very long. :-)
BrooklynEagle 1 month ago
0:10--man, I'm telling 'ya...we should still have that right now in 2011. The great Ebbets Field should be standing on this cool and windy East Coast offseason day (12/28/2011), and the tarp should be on the field right now, keeping it in positive shape for the 2012 season. That fat-ass PIG o'malley fucked us really good, man. Our Bums (mind you, I wasn't around for those "Boys of Summer" years. I'm only a 29-year old Yanks fan) should still be here--WITH US!--in BK.
It's all gravy, though...
BrooklynEagle 1 month ago
...We have the Nets (Brooklyn Nets!!!!!) coming here in October 2012. (Thanks, Jay! That's a man 100-times better than walter o'malley.) Barclays Center ("The Bar") is almost done. And we're just about ready, son! I know I'm ready. I'm getting ready to sell all of my orange & royal blue Knickerbockers crap! :D Watch, we will turn those modern bums (Brooklyn's basketball bums!) into winners again (they've already won two basketball titles back in the 70's as the ABA's N.Y. Nets). WATCH! 2016!!!!!
BrooklynEagle 1 month ago
I was born & raised in Los Angeles and when the Dodgers came west, in 1958, I was 11. It wasn't until 35 years later, when I had formed The Committee To Elect Gil Hodges Into Baseball's Hall of Fame, that I began to realize what the Dodgers had meant to Brooklyn. It was, obviously, a love affair between the fans and the Dodgers. I only wish that I could have been a young man, living in Brooklyn, during the late 40's and 1950's. I suspect it would have been baseball Heaven. Love you Gil....
MrRonnieG 6 months ago
i tink u shud lern too spel
jtcbrt 7 months ago
@jtcbrt n ur telling me while ur spelling like ur retarded
sparkey9889 7 months ago
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@sparkey9889 he was making fun of you....
1109Woodsie 4 months ago
A man named Modell tried to do this kind of thing to the NFL' Cleveland Browns.. it was wrong. Thankfully we somehow stopped him from taking the name, history and colors. These things become a part of your soul.
MickeyMorandini1 7 months ago
First of all , it's Dodgers, NOT Dogers!!! My dad & I stood & watched them tear it down. I was 9 at the time. My dad had a friend whose father owned a rooming house where the opposing teams would stay when they came to Brooklyn. That was back in the 30's. He gave me a couple of autographed balls - Giants & Pirates of late 1930's. Oh yeah, 1 more thing - Robert Moses was a goddamn putz.
Bloozmaniac 7 months ago
they distroyed that beautiful ball park to build a welfare shack. what a shame.
turkeytonite 8 months ago
@turkeytonite Ebbets Field Apts. a great place to live at first viebrint community life You could see half of Brooklyn if you lived on the higher up floors. The Bldg . sponsored Boy Scout and Cub Scout troops I lived there from 1963 till 1968 It was miss managed then became that welfare tower . These days when i see it in a pic. i think of the theme song from the show Good Times
Rollman1 3 months ago
ITS A DISGRACE THE DODGERS left Brooklyn its a fucking disgrace!!!! and the giants are forgotten they ALSO left!! what a travesty. People should get the gas chamber for teams like the dodgers, giants, sonics moving!
IslandersLIFE4 9 months ago
I am 74 years old which makes me 10 years old the year Jackie Robinson joined the team in 1947. From that time until January 1956 when I went into the military I was a die hard Bums fan. Still have a photo of the 1955 team in my den and balls signed by Duke and Sandy in my living room wall unit. Have model of Ebetts Field and statues of the nine players of the 1955 team which my son bought me for one birthday, I haave a ball cap given to children attending game as a souvenir. Miss Bklyn.
Mr3271937 10 months ago 5
@Mr3271937 thats so cool my uncle used to go there for a school trip once and a while and he met Gil Hodges. He always tells me stories about the games and im 14 and i love basebal and i live in manhatten and i miss the dodgers even though i never got to thee them play my uncle has made me feel like i did. My dad also lived down the block from Ebbets but he wasnt born yet before the stadium was torn down
sparkey9889 10 months ago
Bro we need Brooklyn dodgers back. That Shit pissed me off when it became a project. I wish I would of lived back in the days and watch a game. Smh great video
GrawKing 10 months ago
ebbets field was the best place to watch baseball ever!!!!!!!!!! bottom line. end of story
paulyseed 10 months ago
sad they moved that team out of brooklyn, what a gyp!
dylanluigi 11 months ago
It should have been replaced by a modern stadium where it stood. The Dodgers would still be in Brooklyn.
latinsoul53 1 year ago
The Dodgers should of never left. Now if you look at what was once a great ballpark and even greater baseball legacy, is a bunch of raggedy buildings with equal residents, who know nothing of the past history of culture of the Brooklyn Dodgers and what it played for baseball and New York City.
MrSld1979 1 year ago
Ebbets Field should have been declared a community monument. It could have been made into a baseball museum, or even a commercial attraction, where people paid admission for a tour. There could have been exhibits with figures that moved or told a story about games and players like Babe Herman, Jackie Robinson, Koufax.
dolphin330 1 year ago
Even though I'm a Red Sox fan I would've loved to go see Ebbets Field and be out down that left field seating.
tommusicfan19 1 year ago
My Dad was the Team Dentist for the Brooklyn Dodgers. I was 6 years old when the Dodgers left Brooklyn and my whole family was invited to move to LA with the team but my Mom didn't want to leave Brooklyn, so we stayed in Brooklyn. Walter O'Malley was a man ahead of his time - he wanted to build a Domed Stadium in Brooklyn - but the Big "Mac" (Robert M.) insisted that the new stadium be built in Queens. The Dodgers belonged in Brooklyn and were forced out by the Big Mac who ruined it all!
gfemg 1 year ago 2
Ebbets Field may have been old, but the memories are just as fresh as if they happened today. A hot dog and a soda $0.65. God love the Brooklyn Dodgers.
latinsoul53 1 year ago
If you're going to post a video on the Internet please take two seconds to make sure your spelling is correct. It's really tough when the title of your project is misspelled.
BurningtunaDC 1 year ago
Citi Field looks similar
MSavage59 1 year ago
@MSavage59 not really only the routunda n thts it ive been to citi field 3 times this year n the field has notihing to do with ebbets field
sparkey9889 1 year ago
@MSavage59 because the main entrance has the looks of Ebbets Field
johnnysmoke92 3 months ago
Was in Brooklyn 2 days ago and had opportunity to go for a 3 mile run by Ebbets apts. Did not feel safe in the area...run down. Cool to see where the ball field once stood...history.
gawfboy 1 year ago
1:39 wow that is a cool picture how did you make that ?
Creepingdeathx81 1 year ago
@Creepingdeathx81 i really dont remember srry.
sparkey9889 1 year ago
@Creepingdeathx81
It Sure is!!
Gabby9292K1 9 months ago
Ebbets Field was owned by my family
GRGZY 1 year ago
yet then again the only way ebbets field would be remade is if Brooklyn gets a new mlb franshice .
ChevyRoll48 1 year ago
Ebbets Field and the Brooklyn Dodgers will live forever
Boomer1947 1 year ago
evidently the place where the new nets arena is being built in brooklyn was the same place where omalley wanted to build the new dodgers stadium but the NYC planning and building commissioner wanted it built in queens so omalley left for LA??
mohammedmali1 1 year ago
@mohammedmali1 i would have just moved to queens but tht was his desision but he had a chance to stay in ny but just move to a different burrow so he moved to the other side of the country
sparkey9889 1 year ago
@sparkey9889 i think the building commissioner had a financial interest in getting a stadium built in queens plus making sure it was a new franchise, california didnt want one team they wanted two so the dodgers and giants both left.i think the stadium omalley proposed in brooklyn wouldve been the first one ever with a roof over it??heres a real stat on the yankees-red sox game the other night ken singleton said the dodgers have played more games in L.A. now then they did in brooklyn.
mohammedmali1 1 year ago
@Boomer1947 you are 100 % right. no other satdium have the class of ebbets field. this is baseball. not the bunch of morons who are playing today.
GUGUlink 1 year ago
NYC Metro is big enough to have 3 MLB teams. The rivalries today would be just as strong as they were in the past. And they would generate hundreds of millions in revenues.
When I was growing up in Brooklyn, people used the name "walter omalley" as an insult. It was the moral equivalent of a pejorative such as a "benedict arnold". May both burn in Hades for eternity.
1400deadwood 1 year ago
Now is the time to declare Wrigley Field and Fenway Park National landmarks
prausch65 1 year ago
i agree n im the biggest yankee fan u will ever meet but wrigly to me is a great ballpark but for all the tht think citi field is like ebets field its really not they just have to rotundra but fenway is an amozing ballpark n it would b a shmae if the sox got a new stadium
sparkey9889 1 year ago
They should not have demolished Ebbets Field. It was truly a beautiful ballpark. Tiger Stadium was a year older than Ebbets, and it was only demolished over 2008-09. I feel bad to see all the old ballparks go. In my life, I've seen the demise of Comiskey Park (1910 - 1991), Tiger Stadium (1912 - 2009), and now Yankee Stadium (1923 - 2010). Hopefully, the Cubbies and the Red Sox keep their historic parks.
mackbee628 1 year ago
they shouldnt have knocked it down i have a thing for old fields i mean honestly if they built a new white house would they knock down the old one and put apartments there? heck no it should be the same with baseball
CollinsWorldPictures 2 years ago
They had plenty of room in Red Hook to build a park with a generous sized parking area -- now, there's an IKEA.
hallj100 2 years ago
O'Malley wanted to stay. He was going to pay for the new stadium and even had plans for a retractable dome. The NYC government sent their jewel away. Let's not forget that same gov. showed the Giants the road out of town as well.
Fredconto 2 years ago
everyone knows it was a bad idea to knock it down just look at tiger stadium in detriot ppl can go and c the history thr and everything else and did u notice tht in every MLB video game they but old stadiums and they never include ebbets feild and i feel tht they should have put tht in
sparkey9889 1 year ago
One of the sadest periods in my life was when our beloved bums moved west . Ebetts field was like a temple and the religion was Brookllyn Dodgers baseball
bdodger 2 years ago
Ebbets Field never should have been allowed to been razed. The Dodgers move ripped the heart and soul out of this borough and it still has yet to recover. The ballpark should have stood and put the 1962 Mets in there instead of the Polo Grounds.
Subwayguy98 2 years ago
Its an utter shame that this cathedral to baseball history was torn down and replaced with a bunch of apartment buildings housing the inner-urban animals responsible for the demise of the borough
thndrct218 2 years ago
Maybe Ebbets field was inadequate as stated by O'Malley, but he did want to keep the team in Brooklyn. The city refused to build him a stadium. Ironically, from what I understand there is a stadium being built at O'Mally's proposed site for a new stadium for the Dodgers at Atlantic and Flatbush Ave. Bottom line, it's a great tradgedy that the Dodgers left Brooklyn and it hurts me today to think about the fact that NYC government let an incredibly beloved institution like the Dodgers go.
lisasimsim 2 years ago
The Dodgers should have remained in Brooklyn but the greed of Walter O'Malley took them away. But as for EBBETS Field, It has been rebuilt, but the only problem is that they rebuilt it in Queens and call it CITI Field now.
slyman86 2 years ago
citi field only has the fron tht looks like ebbets not the whole ballpark but i really do think tht thye should have stayed in brooklyn my dad and his family only lived like 5 blocks from ebbets field and when it was born it got knocked down but since im in Queens hes taken me to c were it was a coupel of times and i just keep saying imagine if the dodgers stayed in brooklyn mabye just mabye they would have made history
sparkey9889 1 year ago
Also, you spelled "there", wrong when you made the statement, " This is what should be their. It is spelled THERE not their, Must be a NYC school graduate.
slyman86 2 years ago
You spelled Dodgers wrong in the opening of your video. You spelled it Dogers. It's DODGERS.
slyman86 2 years ago
Great pictures, but learn the difference between there and their! Pleeze!
lollapoolza 2 years ago
If the Dodgers had stayed there'd be no Mets. And Brooklyn would have had 9 more NL Championships, 17 more post season appearences, and 5 more WS Championships since 1955. Some Mets fans are former Brooklyn Dodgers fans and they still hate O'Mally for taking there beloved Bums away. However they hate the Yankees so much that they root for the Mets. LOL!
louthebody 2 years ago
if the dodgers had stayed then they wouldnt have been the brookyln dodgers, ebbots field would have been destroyed anyways because they had to move to where the mets play today, the dodgers left because they felt betrayed and wouldnt have been the brookyln dodgers anymore so the wnt to la. yeah i wish that stadium was stll there, but hey im glad i have a good team to root for down here in la instead of ending up with a team like the padres.
Dadodgers 2 years ago
Yes they made there own history in LA. The Dodgers are a prestegious(sp?) organization and probably one of the last teams if not the only team that owns there own stadium last time I checked a few years back. Dodger Stadium is still a beautiful ballpark. Next to the new Yankee Stadium of course. LOL! If the Yankees don't make the post season I'll root for the Dodgers. NO Mets! No Redsox! LOL!
louthebody 2 years ago
lol well im not much of a yankee fan but looking at old parks does make you sad take detriot for example tiger field just sits there in ruin and its cool to see that its still there yet sad to see that they let it rot. and as for the postseason i do hope that the mets, redsox, phillies, cardinals, and braves dont make it
Dadodgers 2 years ago
well everybody doesnt like the mets but the phillies can just shut up cuz they cant say anything bout how there winning n red sox i really dont care bout but cards i kinda like them but i just like wanwright but the braves dont have a chance
sparkey9889 1 year ago
well the padres do suck im gonna say it but i do like the dodgers and i like the angles but i just like angle stadium but for the dodgers i like how thr fans always remember the times they had in brooklyn
sparkey9889 1 year ago
well to me the dodger and yankee rivaly was great anf look at the play with berra and robinson tht was really funny to c yoggie a lil short guy just go off on the ump lol but mets fans hate yankee fans cuz we kicked thr asses in 2000 but the giants nobody talks about anymore its always the Dodgers
sparkey9889 1 year ago