By , Ebbets Field was demolished. The wrecking ball that was used to knock down the stadium was painted to look like a baseball. For many Brooklynites, the heart of the borough was ripped out when the Dodgers left Brooklyn. Do you agree? Hopefully these historic, fun and quirky memories will cheer you up and remind you what Ebbets Field was like during its glory days. What a great day in history when he became a Brooklyn Dodger and broke the color barrier on April 15, !
They built it at Ebbets Field after a game was snowed out in On July 27, Bugs Bunny made his debut! On August 26, the first televised Major League Baseball game was broadcast. In October of the same year year, the first pro football game aired.
The Brooklyn football Dodgers beat the Philadephia Eagles 24— Ebbets Field had a capacity of 23, consisting of a covered double decked grandstand extending from the right field foul pole to homeplate and around to the third base side.
A lower level of seating continued down the third base side to the left field foul pole. The right field wall consisted of a nine foot wall. Once opening day arose a problem was discovered, there was no press box.
A press box was placed in two rows of seats in the upper deck. One of the most iconic features of Ebbets Field was its exterior, consisting of brick and arches. The first addition to Ebbets Field was in when bleachers were added in the outfield.
In , a press box was finally constructed and hung under the upper deck. The largest addition to Ebbets Field occured in when the double decked grandstand was extended down the third base line, around the left field foul pole and into centerfield.
The upper deck in left field hung over the playing field. The confusion is not over where the stadium was located, but over the shifting names attributed to that area. You can't see the field because it was torn down. There is a plaque on the side of the apartment complex that is now on the former site of the baseball stadium. If you want to go on a Brooklyn Dodger's Jackie Robinson-themed walking tour, check out this great piece in Untapped Cities , highlighting a great walk through Brooklyn's baseball history.
Enjoy your baseball-themed trip to Brooklyn. Don't forget to schedule a Cyclones game. Actively scan device characteristics for identification. Use precise geolocation data. Select personalised content. Create a personalised content profile. Measure ad performance. Select basic ads. Create a personalised ads profile. Named after Dodgers owner Charles Ebbets. Rotunda was an 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.
There were 12 turnstiles and 12 gilded ticket windows. The domed ceiling was 27 feet high at its center. Kids could watch games through a gap under the metal gate in right-center. Cobblestoned Bedford Avenue was a hill, climbing from a low point in right field to higher ground in center field. Right-field wall and scoreboard built after had approximately different angles; the scoreboard jutted out 5 feet from the wall at a degree angle.
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