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Ron Schweiger remembers seeing the Dodgers play at Brooklyn's Ebbets Field, where the green grass was an astonishing sight for a boy raised on black-and-white TV.
The ghosts of “Dem Bums” still linger in Brooklyn. It’s been decades since the Brooklyn Dodgers left the subways and New York City for the highways and Chavez Ravine in California — but ...
Ebbets Field hosted its first game on April 5, 1913, when Brooklyn played against the New York Yankees with an overcapacity of 30,000 fans in attendance.
In 1962, the Ebbets Field Apartments rose up in its place. Now, with the Yankees and the Dodgers competing in the World Series, the plaque that gets a small handful of visitors most days is now ...
On April 5, 1913, Ebbets Field opened its doors for the first time as the Brooklyn Dodgers hosted the New York Yankees in an exhibition game. More than 25,000 fans were in attendance for the first ...
His name was Charles Ebbets and he had to be talked into calling his vision for Brooklyn and baseball Ebbets Field. He was born on Oct. 29 , 1859, and spent his life making a mark on the game he ...
Being able to visit and write about Ebbets Field is special to me. It’s a reminder of the work we are doing and the doors that were opened for us to be here. Jack Roosevelt Robinson had a dream ...
Ebbets Field, the Brooklyn stadium where Robinson broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier in 1947, remains central to the brand’s identity and the corner stone of the brands identity.
Ebbets Field was converted to housing projects after the Dodgers played their final home game in the borough in 1957, but the monument still attracts tourists regularly — especially when the ...