Ebbets Field Lithographs/Artwork
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 Beloved Ebbets Field and named after Dodger owner Charlie Ebbets. It opened on April 9, 1913, and served the burgeoning borough of Brooklyn, NY, until the Dodgers broke their fans' hearts and moved out following the 1957 season.
10 different lithograph depicting the days at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, NY can be found at this webpage
Ebbets Field Lithographs
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Past Brooklyn Dodgers gather for ML game  ST. PETERSBURG, FLA. - On June 23, 2007, 2,500 miles from their current home and 1,100 miles from their former home, the LA Dodgers played a baseball game indoors, on high-tech fake grass, wearing "Brooklyn" across their chest.
They did so against the dismal Tampa Bay Devil Rays, who wore "St. Pete" across their jerseys, rocked out to 50s music and spent the night paying homage to members of the 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers championship team ( Johnny Podres, Duke Snider, Carl Erskine and TB assistant coach Don Zimmer was a Dodger and was immortalized on a bobblehead giveaway.
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 A decade of changes was marked by the Dodgers' move ( 1911 Dodgers photo) to a new home park, Ebbets Field, and the managerial era of Wilbert Robinson. "Uncle Robbie" arrived on the scene in 1914 and would stay through 1931. He made such an impact on the team and the city, that the Brooklyn ballclub was known as the "Robins" in this period of time.
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 After the wilderness years of the 1920s and 1930s, the Dodgers were rebuilt into a contending club first by general manager Larry MacPhail and then the legendary Branch Rickey. Led by Pee Wee Reese, Jackie Robinson and Gil Hodges in the infield, Duke Snider in center field, Roy Campanella behind the plate, and Don Newcombe on the pitcher 's mound, the Dodgers won pennants in 1941, 1947, 1949, 1952, and 1953. In all five of those World Series, however, they were defeated by the New York Yankees. The annual ritual of building excitement, followed in the end by disappointment, became old hat to the long suffering fans, and “Wait ’til next year!” became an unofficial Dodger slogan.
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 NEW YORK -- Just outside the front gate of KeySpan Park, home to the Class A Brooklyn Cyclones, a crowd of 300 people shuffled forward in anticipation, trying to better position themselves for the impending unveiling.
A countdown began from 10 and upon completion, a cloth was whipped away to cheers of Heyyyyyy! With that sharp tug, New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg revealed the Jackie Robinson and Pee Wee Reese Monument, which captures the watershed moment in May 1947 when Reese threw his arm around his new Brooklyn Dodgers teammate on the field in Cincinnati in a show of support for Major League Baseball's first African-American player.
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Ebbets Field grounds now suffering.
NEW YORK -- On a quiet day, you can imagine the cheers and the baseball fans moving toward the Sullivan Place rotunda in Brooklyn, suits and ties, fedoras and pocket squares, fathers holding sons' hands, generations winding down to familiar seats. On a quiet day, you can imagine Duke Snider roaming the patio, and in your dreams, the bricks are lush grass and the concrete is powdery dirt and the drug dealers are children again, hopeful and innocent.
Those days are rare and fleeting, for Ebbets Field is a ghost now. Ebbets Field Apartments stand in its place. All that's left of the old park is a name, a marble plaque and a few fading memories.
Only the name and this plaque are left to remind people that these apartments stand on the former site of Ebbets Field.
Most days, you hear sirens and the occasional pop of a handgun. You can smell the marijuana in the elevator. You can look out over the city and see the two forces squeezing the low-income families trying to make a stand on Flatbush Avenue: poverty on one side and encroaching gentrification on the other. If the random gunshot doesn't get them, the developers will.
Brenda Scott is standing on her 19th floor balcony, staring at the skyline. She's the head of the Ebbets Field tenants association, and now that she's retired from teaching second grade, she's fighting to keep the drugs and violence out and the low-income residents in. Last year, a bullet was fired through her front door. A warning? She believes so.
Sometimes, when she looks down where the infield used to be, she thinks about Jackie Robinson. Her grandmother, a woman from the segregated South, used to go to Ebbets Field. Those were bright days. They were proud of Robinson, felt like his actions had changed their lives forever. Now Scott looks in the eyes of the kids down on the patio and sees apathy.
"They just don't see his legacy as something to be proud of," she says. "To them, it doesn't matter anymore. They don't have an understanding of what he went through. And here it is, 60 years later, and there's still a struggle to keep a roof over your head."
She sighs.
"It should have stayed a ballpark," she says.
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