Throughout sports there are certain franchises that have a storied history that will never be forgotten. Co-founder Jerry Cohen grew up in Brooklyn, not far from where the fabled stadium once stood in … [10] This turned out to be a sale of 50% of the team, which led to management troubles years later, but by early 1913, Pigtown had been transformed into Ebbets Field, where some of baseballs's greatest dramas took place.[11]. They demolished the old concrete bleachers beyond third base as well as the "circus seats". As with Boston's Fenway Park and Detroit's Tiger Stadium, two ballparks that opened one year earlier than Ebbets Field, the intimate configuration prompted some baseball writers to refer to Ebbets Field as a "cigar box" or a "bandbox.". On Sept. 24, 1957, the Dodgers, now owned by Walter O'Malley, played their final game at Ebbets Field and moved to California. The same wrecking ball was used four years later to demolish the Polo Grounds. Today's vacation entry is the much lamented Brooklyn Dodger's own home ballpark: Ebbets Field. Dimensions: Left field: 419 (1913), 410 (1914), 418.75 (1921), 383.67 (1926), 382.83 (1930), 384 (1931), 353 (1932), 356.33 (1934), 365 (1938), 357 (1939), 365 (1940), 356 (1942), 357 (1947), 343 (1948), 348 (1953), 343 (1955), 348 (1957). The first occurred just days after the opening game in 1914, with the outfield walls being moved back … In the late forties, Gladys Gooding played songs like "To each his own" on an organ situated in an overhang in the girders beneath the upper deck behind first base at Ebbets Field while the players were warming up and during the 7th inning stretch. Apartments were built upon the former Ebbets Field site, and were named the Ebbets Field Apartments upon their opening in 1962 [8] and were later renamed the Jackie Robinson Apartments in 1972, the same year Robinson died. With the Dodgers leaving for Los Angeles, O'Malley urged Horace Stoneham, owner of the Dodgers' long-time crosstown rivals, the New York Giants, to also move west. That’s a good question. Aerial view of Ebbets Field courtesy of Elias Dudash. A detailed plan of the new ballpark was published in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle for January 3, 1912, p. 21. Abe Stark sign offered a free suit at 1514 Pitkin Avenue to any batter hitting the 3-by-30-foot sign. Ebbets Field was a small, "human-scale" ballpark, tightly squeezed into the urban street grid with only limited expansion possibilities. Ebbets Field was the scene of some early successes, as the Dodgers, also called the "Robins" after long-time manager Wilbert Robinson, won National League championships in 1916 and 1920. [17], According to The Greatest Ballpark Ever: Ebbets Field and the story of the Brooklyn Dodgers by Bob McGee, Saul Leisner was assigned to auction off Ebbets Field on April 20, 1960. The team and stadium were later bought (1981) by the Tribune Company; Wrigley Field reportedly sold for $600,000. Original dimensions at Redland Field were 360 … This is another wonderful book on the history of Ebbets Field and the Brooklyn Dodgers franchise. Due to the lack of home runs hit during regular season games, the Mets moved in the fences. "MURDER AT EBBETS FIELD" is the third novel in the Mickey Rawlings series of mystery novels I've read in which Major League Baseball looms large. Leisner stated that it was the saddest day of his life. In 1932 the dimensions were changed. In the spring of 1931, the Dodgers began expanding Ebbets Field. Named after Dodgers owner Charles Ebbets. Sorry about that. Each of our authentic Ballcaps is crafted from genuine wool baseball fabric. The first televised baseball game was a 6-1 win over the Reds at Ebbets Field on Aug. 26, 1939. By 1920, several rows of wooden bleachers had been constructed inside the left field wall, which the newspapers called "circus seats". [18][19], The Ebbets Field Apartments were built on the former Ebbets Field site, and were opened in 1962. In one of those games, Satchel Paige made a special guest pitching appearance. There were 12 turnstiles and 12 gilded ticket windows. A detailed plan of the new ballpark was published in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle for January 3, 1912, p. 21. Even at the groundbreaking, the site was described as containing several old houses, shanties, goats, and tomato cans, and although the streets bordering the field were mapped, two of them had not been built yet. Another significant feature of the Polo Grounds were the dimensions of the outfield fences. What I really liked about this book was how this book pointed out the many contributions to baseball that Charles Ebbets made. of St. Louis in the final before more than 18,000 fans. They struggled here in the 1920s and 1930s, brought Jackie Robinson to major league baseball here in 1947, and won the World Series here in 1955. Result of a merger between the Brooklyn Horsemen of the American Football League and the Brooklyn Lions of the National Football League for the 1926 NFL season, For the former military airfield in Arkansas, see, Defunct stadiums of the National Football League, †= Team's stadium under construction or refurbishment at time, Defunct ballparks in Major League Baseball. BALLPARKS © 1996-2014 by Munsey & Suppes. Eight light towers were moved to Downing Stadium on Randall’s Island. A look at Brooklyn, then and now. Ebbets Field as it is often remembered in the popular imagination, with its large scoreboard in right field—topped by the Schaefer Beer sign, whose “h” and “e” would light up to reflect scoring decisions—did not take form until 1931, when renovations on the park were largely complete. It was also in 1938 that Hilda Chester, one of the earlier sports "superfans," became a regular attendee when Larry MacPhail brought Ladies' Days to Ebbets Field, only charging women a ten-cent admission on those days. Of particular interest are the estimates of the dimensions in the "power alleys," defined as the angular midsection between the bases. Ebbets Field also hosted the 1949 Major League Baseball All-Star Game. [25], On June 7, 1931, over 10,000 fans came out to Ebbets Field to watch Celtic of Scotland defeat Brooklyn Wanderers 5–0. However, additional rows of seating across left field reduced that area by about 15 feet, to the delight of right-handed sluggers. View of Ebbets Field from the 3rd base side by Munsey & Suppes. Middle School 320, across McKeever Place, was renamed Jackie Robinson Intermediate School. Left-center: 365 (1932), 351 (1948); deep left-center at bend in wall: 407 (1932), 393 (1948), 395 (1954); center field: 450 (1914), 466 (1930), 460.79 (early 1931), 447 (late 1931), 399.42 (1932), 399 (1936), 402 (1938), 400 (1939), 399 (1947), 384 (1948), 393 (1955); right side of center-field grandstand: 390 (1932), 376 (1948); right-center’s deepest corner: 500 (1913), 476.75 (1926), 415 (1932), 403 (1948), 405 (1950), 403 (1955); right side of right–center field exit gate: 399 (1932); right-center: 352; scoreboard: left side 344, right side 318; right field: 301 (1913), 300 (1914), 296.17 (1921), 292 (1922), 301 (1926), 296.08 (1930), 295.92 (1931), 296.5 (1934), 297 (1938); backstop: 64 (1942), 70.5 (1954), 72 (1957). The land included the site of a garbage dump called Pigtown, so named because of the pigs that once ate their fill there and the stench that filled the air. Schaefer Beer sign (added after WWII) on top of the right-center scoreboard notified fans of official scorer’s decision - the 'H' in Schaefer lit up for a hit, an 'E' for an error. The right field wall was fairly high due to the short foul line (around 300 feet (91 m)) necessitated by the street immediately beyond it, but had no screen or scoreboard at first. 104. dazzy. The author doesn't stay with the theme of Brooklyn and Ebbets field. [26], On June 17, 1947, the first known televised soccer game in the US took place when Hapoel Tel Aviv lost to the American League Stars 2–0. Ebbets Field was a Major League Baseball stadium in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, New York. They built an extension of the main double-deck stands, which stretched across left and center fields, leaving a notch for the big door in deep right center field. Rotunda was an 80-foot circle enclosed in Italian marble, with a floor tiled with a representation of the stitches of a baseball and a chandelier with 12 baseball-bat arms holding 12 globes shaped like baseballs. In addition to his well-known breaking of the color line by signing Jackie Robinson, Rickey's savvy with farm systems (as with his prior work for the St. Louis Cardinals) produced results that made the Brooklyn Dodgers "Bums" a perennial contender, which they continued to be for several years. Ebbets Field Flannels continues to be run by its original founders, and remains committed to bringing the quality, beauty and craftsmanship of mid-Century American athletic garments to a 21st Century public. Danny Kaye's 1962 song about the Los Angeles Dodgers contains this line exhorting his team to win: "Come on, you Flatbush refugees!". The ballpark was built by Dodger owner Charlie Ebbets at the cost of $750,000 and until 1929, no press box was present in the stadium. View of McKeever and Sullivan back then courtesy of Elias Dudash. The seating area was expanded in the 1920s, a "boom" time for baseball when many ballparks were expanded. After locating the prospective new site to build a permanent stadium to replace the old, wooden Washington Park, Dodgers' owner Charles Ebbets acquired the property over several years, starting in 1908, by buying lots until he owned the entire block. The last game played there was on Sept. 18, 1963 and it was demolished in 1964, using the same wrecking ball that leveled the Brooklyn Dodgers' Ebbets Field. [30] On May 17, Sunderland tied 1. At the cornerstone-laying ceremony, Ebbets said that the ballpark was going to be ready for play on September 1, and that Brooklyn was going to win the National League pennant in 1913. Details started to come out about all of the new innovations. [7] The seating area was initially a double deck from past third base, around home plate, and all the way down the right side. In February of 1960, the same wrecking ball that would later demolish the Polo Grounds began its work on Ebbets Field. On June 24, 1931, the All-Ireland champion County Kerry team defeated Kildare by a score of 18–3 with an attendance of 2,500 fans under floodlights in a night game.[36]. More than 35 years after the Dodgers left Brooklyn, in a case deciding the use of the Brooklyn Dodgers' trademark, Constance Baker Motley, a federal judge in the Southern District of New York, called O'Malley's removal of the franchise from its historic home "one of the most notorious abandonments in the history of sports". Ultimately, O'Malley and Moses could not come to agreement on a new location for the stadium, and the club moved west to Los Angeles after the 1957 season. Several decades later, Roger Kahn's acclaimed book The Boys of Summer and Frank Sinatra's song "There Used to Be a Ballpark" mourned the loss of places like Ebbets Field, and of the attendant youthful innocence of fans and players alike. FC Nürnberg of Germany. Ebbets Field would be the site of some of the worst baseball ever played, and some of the best that fans have ever witnessed. The only year in which the Dodgers won the World Series while tennants of Ebbets Field was 1955. In the winter of 1937-38, box seats were added in center field. The relocation of the Dodgers to Los Angeles in 1957 and the subsequent destruction of Ebbets Field was a watershed event marking the beginning of the rapid expansion of teams and construction of new, modern stadiums in many professional sports. Construction: Castle Brothers, Inc. The double deck was extended from third base around the left field corner, across left field, and into center field, allowing right-hand hitters to garner many more home runs. In 2006, the Dodgers matched the years they played at Ebbets Field with their years in Dodger Stadium. (There is some confusion about distances because the left-field foul line and grandstand wall were the same near the corner between the 343 and 357 markers.) It had almost no automobile parking for Dodger fans who had moved east to suburban Long Island, though it was near a subway station. Site of Ebbets Field (Google Maps). Tenant: Brooklyn Dodgers (NL) As a result, O'Malley began to flirt publicly with Los Angeles, using a relocation threat as political leverage to win favor for a Brooklyn stadium. [27] On June 18, 1948, Liverpool of England beat DjurgÃ¥rden of Sweden 3–2 in front of 20,000 fans. [32][33] On June 28, 1959, Napoli of Italy lost to Rapid Vienna of Austria 1–0 in front of 18,512, and game officials were attacked afterwards. Charles Ebbets came up with the 154 game schedule which was in place through the 1961 season. Ebbets Field, one of the most important places in Brooklyn's history, was built in 1913 at 1720 Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn, NY. However, it was used more frequently for collegiate match-ups, and was home base for Manhattan College's football team in the 1930s. David S. Neft, Richard M. 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In 2009, the dimensions at Citi Field were 335 feet in left field, 384 feet in left center, 408 in the center, 378 feet in the right center, and 330 in right field. Ebbets Field also hosted three pro football teams – the New York Brickley Giants for one game in 1921, the Brooklyn Lions/Horsemen in 1926, and the Brooklyn Dodgers/Tigers from 1930 to 1944. Jackie Robinson School, previously known as Crown Heights, houses the Brooklyn Dodgers Hall of Fame. [15] When the park was opened, it was discovered that the flag, keys to the bleachers, and a press box had all been forgotten. Built on the site of the Pigtown garbage dump at a cost of $750,000. Jackie Robinson became the first black man in the 20th century to play in Major League Baseball here on April 15, 1947. Currently a residential neighborhood (Flatbush), Ebbets Field was a New York staple before the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles. Of the many teams that uprooted in the 1950s and 1960s, the Dodgers have probably had the largest number of public laments over their fans' heartbreak over losing their team. After the early successes of the Dodgers, the team slid into hard times. Major League Baseball Properties, Inc. v. Sed Non Olet Denarius, Ltd. 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The Dodgers found themselves victims of their own success soon thereafter. A great deal of history happened at Ebbets Field during its 45 years. Kids could watch games through a gap under the metal gate in right-center. Estimates were that over 500 people gathered around the marble rotunda. [20] They were renamed the Jackie Robinson Apartments in 1972, the year Robinson died. Demolition began on February 23, 1960. Overhang of the second deck hung out over center field. Construction began on March 4, 1912,[2] and the cornerstone, a piece of Connecticut granite that held newspapers, pictures of baseball players, cards, telegrams, and almanacs, was laid on July 6, 1912. Fences: Left field to left-center: 20 (1913), 3 (wood, 1920), 9.87 (concrete, 1931); center field: 20 (1913), 393 marker: 9.87 (concrete, 1931) sloping upward; 376 marker: 15 (concrete, 1931); right-center: 9 (concrete, 1913), from 376 point to screen: 15 sloping upward to 19, then down to 13; right-center to right field 38 (top 19 screen, bottom 19 concave concrete wall, bent at 9.5 midpoint, vertical top half, concave angled bottom half); screen in center field: 20 (screen above sloping concrete, 1920s); right field before the screen: 9 (concrete, 1913). The right field line was to be 298 feet (91 m) from home plate, the left field line 401 feet (122 m), and to the front of the intended triangle-shaped center field bleachers the plan said 407 feet (124 m) "+ or −". Last game: September 24, 1957 The Dodgers won pennants in 1941 (under MacPhail), 1947, 1949, 1952, 1953, 1955 and 1956. The final posted dimensions of the ballpark were left field line 365 feet (111 m), left-center field 406 feet (124 m), deepest left-center 457 feet (139 m), deep right-center 436 feet (133 m), right-center field 375 feet (114 m), and right field line 300 feet (91 m). Location: 55 Sullivan Place, in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn (about three miles south by southeast down Flatbush Avenue from the Manhattan Bridge). Ebbets Field was the baseball stadium of the former Brooklyn Dodgers before they moved to California and became the Los Angeles Dodgers. For a period of time, the scoreboard clock sat on top of the right-field scoreboard at McCormick Field in Asheville, North Carolina. Ebbets Field, 1940s via Ebay. The left field corner had a unique arrangement, with the foul line actually running atop the box seat railing to the foul pole. The original outfield dimensions were gargantuan, especially in left and center, which was emblematic of many Dead Ball Era ballparks. 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