55 Sullivan Place, where the legendary Ebbets Field once stood, is now just legend. Menu Search. ... The Day Baseball Died in Brooklyn – Ebbets Field. heinz von eckartsberg Aug 17, 2011.

On April 9, 1913, Ebbets Field was the most modern ballpark of its time when it opened in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, between Bedford Avenue and Sullivan Place.

Ebbets Field opened for its first game ever on April 5, 1913. It was an exhibition game against the New York Giants and the Dodgers won the game, 3-2. Many exciting games took place there in the ...

A Look at Brooklyn, then and now. For many people of a certain generation, Brooklyn began and ended at the gates of Ebbets Field, where the beloved Brooklyn Dodgers played baseball. The years between ...

Gil Hodges rounds first during the 1953 World Series, which Brooklyn lost for the second straight year to the Yankees. ... (L-R) at Ebbets Field on April 15, 1947, the day of Robinson's MLB debut.

On April 9, 1913, the Brooklyn Superbas fell to the Phillies by a score of 1-0 in the first regular-season game ever played at Ebbets Field. Courtesy of the April 10, 1913, edition of the Lewiston ...

But on September 24, 1957, the Brooklyn Dodgers played their last game at Ebbets Field. The team’s president, Walter O’Malley, decided to swap coasts. Three years later, a stadium built on ...

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 ...

On Jan. 2, 1912, Brooklyn Dodgers president and majority owner Charles Ebbets announced his intention to purchase 4.5 acres of land in the Pigtown section of Brooklyn, New York for a new stadium.

But this week, a century-long odyssey will come to an end when the original 1912 blueprints for Ebbets Field, the iconic home of the beloved, bedeviling Brooklyn Dodgers, will be displayed in ...