The ghosts of “Dem Bums” still linger in Brooklyn. It’s been decades since the Brooklyn Dodgers left the subways and New York ...
It would be easy to miss the plaque in a parking lot that was once Ebbets Field, but the managers of a nearby apartment complex are happy to help. Maintenance workers at the Ebbets Field ...
That was a heartbreaking time for Ron Schweiger, a Brooklyn borough historian who has fond childhood memories of seeing the team play at Ebbets Field. At the time, games on television were in ...
Ron Schweiger remembers seeing the Dodgers play at Brooklyn's Ebbets Field, where the green grass was an astonishing sight for a boy raised on black-and-white TV.
In its place rose the Ebbets Field Apartments complex, a sprawling rental development that looms where there used to be a ballpark (and before the ballpark, a garbage dump named Pigtown).
In the beginning, the World Series matchup of the Dodgers against the Yankees was a kind of charming intra-city showdown of ...