The Lost Ball Parks: Ebbets Field

Interviews with fans of the Brooklyn Dodgers sharing their experiences at one of the most intimate ball parks ever, where they played from 1913 to 1957.

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• Brooklyn
• Dodgers
• Ebbets Field
• baseball.

[divisioneight]

Lost icons of a golden age in NY; The old Penn Station, Ebbetts Field and the Polo Grounds. Imagine if the Giants and the Dodgers played here still. The vacuum that O'Malley created, and the Mets couldn't fill was dominated by the Yankees. The baseball conversation in NYC would have been totally different.

[prausch65]

@divisioneight Indeed, with more foresight and interest, these lost icons could have been spared, excellent comment division eight.

[therealjoebloggs]

1956: Walter O'Malley wants to build Dodger Stadium over Flatbush Av RR Terminal. 1957: City to O'Malley: It's Dodger Stadium at the old World's Fairgrounds(later called Shea Stadium for obvious reasons), take it or leave it. 1958: "I'll leave it." 2008: Misha Prokhorov wants to build Nets Arena(Barclay's Centre) over Flatbush Av RR Terminal. 2009: City to Prokhorov: "How quick can you build it?"

[prausch65]

@therealjoebloggs A true lesson learned, but we are replicating what L.A. did to New York baseball, moving a team from another state. The Dodgers were a true New York team, and all efforts should have been made to retain them.

[prausch65]

Indeed,he is narrating.

[smokey1255]

I grew up in LA and my family were long time Brooklyn fans. I was delighted when my heroes moved to LA and was sad too. At age 9, 1957, I understood my heroes would not be the same after the move. The Brooklyn fans were the heart of the Dodgers and I was sad for them losing a team that was core to who they were. No more 'Boys of Summer." The Dodgers were a different team with new heroes. I missed the old Dodgers even as I cheered the new ones. Ebbits should have survived as a shrine.

[solefthanded2]

Sad, sad, sad. On my TV right now, Phillies playing the Dodgers, well the scummy, traitorous spineless fucks who stole the name and moved West. It's almost criminal watching them playing in throwback Brooklyn sky blue, with a Dark Blue 'B' on the cap. That shit O'Malley should never have been allowed to take the name. Bastard.

[chessarama]

If you were living in New York from the end of WWII to the late 50's, there was absolutely no better time than those summers.

[josephD32]

I'm not old enough to remember the Brooklyn Dodgers. They've always been the L.A. Dodgers to me, and Dodger Stadium has always been a monument to baseball.

That said... I agree with the guy at the end. Why tear down Ebbets Field? I can understand converting it and re-purposing it into the apartments that are there now, but they could've left a good portion of that stadium there. Heck, they could've left enough of the field there that kids could've played on it, and someone like me could've went.

[peacetrain301]

Sadly there are no more Dodgers. The term was synonymous with Brooklyn. They should have been renamed The Los Angeles Smog Chokers.