A Look at Brooklyn, then and now. For many people of a certain generation, Brooklyn began and ended at the gates of Ebbets Field, where the beloved Brooklyn Dodgers played baseball. The years between ...
One morning, about a dozen years ago, a rabbinical scholar woke up in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, a long fly ball away from the site of Ebbets Field, the home of the fabled Brooklyn Dodgers ...
They were presumed lost, one more casualty from a move that broke a borough's heart. But this week, a century-long odyssey will come to an end when the original 1912 blueprints for Ebbets Field, the ...
LOS ANGELES — Danny McDevitt, who left his imprint on baseball history by pitching the last game for the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field in 1957, died Saturday, two days after his 78th birthday.
Citi Field was etched in Fred Wilpon's mind long before the groundbreaking in November 2006. It was embedded in boyhood memories of a time when Ebbets Field, the ballpark of Wilpon's youth, galvanized ...
In 1990, a Brooklynite was at a New Jersey construction salvage yard examining a pile of marble slabs for a table top. After a short bidding war, he obtained a 21-pound slab of Italian marble for a ...