Baseball in New York

Ebbets Field did not start as a housing development. The site had a long baseball history. An important place in Brooklyn. It's hard to find information doing internet search. Ebbets Field was the home to the Brooklyn Dodgers before the flew cross country to California. Ebbets Field was opened in 1913, and demolished in 1960 to make way for housing.

It was named after Dodgers owner Charles Ebbets. Jackie Robinson became the first black man in the 20th century to play in Major League Baseball here on April 15, 1947. The only year in which the Dodgers won the World Series while tennants of Ebbets Field was 1955.

Ebbets Field was built over a garbage dump in an area of Brooklyn called Pigtown for the cost of $750,000. The neighborhood of Flatbush grew up around the ballpark. I was not old enough to go to any games at Ebbets Field.

Today, people in Broolyn only know Ebbets Field as an apartment complex.

Pigtown is gone; Dodgers are gone; and the real Ebbets Field is gone.

Even if the fans had had cars to drive, parking around Ebbets Field was limited to spots found on the street. We don't need cars in New York. People walked from the Brighton Line Prospect Park station to Ebbets Field. They passed the aroma from the Bond Bread bakery on Flatbush Avenue according to Randy Kennedy.