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 loved.

City lawyers seized the blueprints of Brooklyn’s fabled Ebbets Field from a display at Brooklyn College.

Jackie Robinson, the first African American Major League player, walking across the street from Ebbets Field, home of the Brooklyn Dodgers, in 1947. Bettmann Archive ...

BROOKLYN — A random walk took me to the construction site of the new Barclays Center, the future home of the Brooklyn Nets. In the 1950s, this was the location Walter O’Malley wanted for a new ...

Major League baseball has not been played in the Borough of Brooklyn since 1957. But any serious baseball fan can still tell you that until that time some of the games greatest moments occurred at ...

Location: 55 Sullivan Place, Flatbush section of Brooklyn. Designed by architect Clarence Randall Van Buskirk. Cost owner Charles Ebbets $750,000. Capacity: 25,000 (1913); 32,000 (1932, added upper… ...

Site of Ebbets Field, Brooklyn Eagle, 1912 At the time that Ebbets, Van Buskirk and the unnamed engineer went on their trip, no one except Ebbets knew that this was research for a new stadium in a new ...

Ebbets Field, former Major League Baseball stadium in Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York on October 29, 2024, now replaced by apartments. Paul Martinka “This is one of the last items on my bucket list ...