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When they moved from New York to San Francisco about a year before the Dodgers it seems the reaction was much more muted than
when the Dodgers left Brooklyn for Los Angeles.
Any baseball historians out there that can provide some perspective on this? Did the Giants not have that big a fan base in New York
so that it didn't seem like that big a deal or ?
when the Dodgers left Brooklyn for Los Angeles.
Any baseball historians out there that can provide some perspective on this? Did the Giants not have that big a fan base in New York
so that it didn't seem like that big a deal or ?
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<< <i> The Giants were sorely missed by their fans but the Brooklyn Dodgers were far more popular, and it ended an era dominated by them and the Yankees and the fabled subway series. >>
Well said. I've seen many shows over the years in regards to the Dodgers leaving and it seemed like life was stopped in Brooklyn, so to speak. Plus the Dodgers did something that shocked the baseball world and NY area. As a Dodger & baseball fan, I will make sure my son learns where the Dodgers came from and why their tradition means so much to me.
<< <i>I've heard rumors after this season is over, the Mets will be moving to Bismark, North Dakota. >>
and nobody in NY will even notice.
had a chance to go inside.
Just found some stats:
Tenant: Brooklyn Dodgers (NL)
Opened: April 9, 1913
First night game: June 15, 1938
Last game: September 24, 1957
Demolished: February 23, 1960
Surface: Grass
Capacity: 25,000 (1913); 32,000 (1932)
Architect: Clarence Randall Van Buskirk
Construction: Castle Brothers, Inc.
Owner: Brooklyn Dodgers
Cost: $750,000
Named after Dodgers owner Charles Ebbets.
Rotunda was an 80-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 1930) had approximately 289 different angles; the scoreboard jutted out 5 feet from the wall at a 45-degree angle. Overhang of the second deck hung out over center field.
Abe Stark sign offered a free suit at 1514 Pitkin Avenue to any batter hitting the 3-by-30-foot sign.
Baseball's first televised baseball game was played here by the Dodgers on August 26, 1939 against the Reds.
Jackie Robinson became the first black man in the 20th century to play in Major League Baseball here on April 15, 1947.
In the late forties, Gladys Gooding played songs like "To each his own" on an organ situated in an overhang in the girders beneath the upper deck behind first base at Ebbets Field while the players were warming up and during the 7th inning stretch.
Hosted the 1949 All-Star game.
The only year in which the Dodgers won the World Series while tennants of Ebbets Field was 1955.
Built on the site of the Pigtown garbage dump at a cost of $750,000.