Memory Lane

The first baseball game I ever attended was in the early 1950's. Miss Cunningham, the Jr. High gym teacher, took a group of us to a Dodgers ball game in Brooklyn as a reward for something. There was a rain delay and the most exciting part of the game was watching the grounds men put on and then remove the tarps. When I got home my father, a big Dodgers fan, asked how I liked the game. I told him it was boring to which he replied, "You just saw Carl Erskine pitch a no-hitter!"

Pat Koziuk Driscoll, '56

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Location 55 Sullivan Place
Brooklyn, New York 11225
Opened April 9, 1913
Demolished February 23, 1960
Owner Brooklyn Dodgers
Surface Grass
Construction cost $750,000 USD
Architect Clarence Randall Van Buskirk
Tenants Brooklyn Dodgers (NL) (1913-1957)
Brooklyn Lions (NFL) (1926)
Brooklyn Dodgers/Tigers (NFL) (1930- 1944)
Brooklyn Tigers (AFL) (1936)
Brooklyn Dodgers (AAFC) (1946- 1948)
Capacity 25,000 (1913); 32,000 (1932)

Ebbets Field was a Major League Baseball park located in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, New York, USA. It was the home of the Brooklyn Dodgers of the National League. Two different incarnations of a Brooklyn Dodgers football team also used Ebbets Field as their home stadium, as did the Brooklyn Tigers of the second AFL before they moved to Rochester in November 1936.

Though Ebbets Field was torn down after the 1957 season; its cornerstone has been saved at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY.

Related links for Ebbets Field:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebbets_Field

https://ballparkdigest.com/2015/07/14/best-of-the-ballparks-ebbets-field

https://www.ballparks.com/baseball/national/ebbets.htm

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