The Rise and Fall of Ebbets Field…

The Rise and Fall of Ebbets Field…
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[@TheBatugan77]

My Dad was in the Navy during the Korean War. He came up out of a subway in Brooklyn and the World Series was on in Ebbets. It wasn't a sellout. But he crowded with others around with others outside a nearby hardware store, where the game was on one of those newfangled television sets!

[@fosternyc926]

Ebbets Field, Brooklyn, NY. Where the Dodgers were born and raised. Dodgers will always be Brooklyns creation

[@flamingfrancis]

Fan from Aussie here. As I understand it Ebbets was the subject of Sinatra's song, "There used to be a ballpark". Also I'll never forget when Neil Diamond once apppeared singing in Fenway he wore a coat that had "Bring the Dodgers back to Brooklyn" on the back

[@bobwhite2]

Possibly. But the team that remained was the Yankees and they were perennial winners… that song mentions the new team hardly tries.

[@kevinmiller6380]

​@@bobwhite2The Mets. They were horrible from the time they were founded in 1962,.all the way up to 1969 when former Brooklyn Dodger legend Gil Hodges guided the team to its first World Series title over the heavily favored Baltimore Orioles in five games.

[@alk61695]

Would have been cool to see a game at Ebbets Field. All my grandparents grew up Dodgers fans and they frequented the ballpark in their youth. I head so many stories from their trips to Ebbets Field. What a site that they got to see Jackie Robinson, and all the other great Dodgers play.

[@nickmele9968]

There many times. Travel by subway

[@tomf5823]

My grandfather was a Brooklyn Dodgers fan. He died in 2021. He was still pissed the Dodgers left Brooklyn.

[@MONEYswimmer200FLY]

My grandpa was a red Sox fan who made our whole family Sox fans. He died in 2018 about 3 months before they won the 2018 WS❤

[@kevinmiller6380]

​@@MONEYswimmer200FLY Sad that your Grandpa didn't live to see Boston win the World Series.

[@priceright8963]

@@kevinmiller6380 He would have seen them win it in '04, '07 and '13.

[@PinkLaffs]

When the Dodges left Brooklyn, it effectively ripped the soul out of the borough.

[@davidgoldin2577]

Brooklyn was changing. The fan based moved to Long Island. By the mid to late 1950s, it wasn't the Brooklyn of 1947 - early 1950s anymore. Attendance peaked in 1947. Stadiums were being built with 50,000 capacity and thousands of parking spaces. What would any owner do?

[@rspister]

Consider doing a video on the story behind Chavez Ravine where Dodger Stadium sits.

[@ellencoelho16]

Have very fond memories of going to Ebbets Field with my dad as youngster, I grew up loving the Dodgers! I too was angry when they left Brooklyn and never became a Mets fan! I still root for the N.Y. Giants!

[@samdoggtheinfamous253]

Also T-Mobile Park in Seattle home plate entry was made like Ebbets field as well.

[@JohnBarrow1961]

T-Mobile Park in Seattle also has a rotunda reminiscent of Ebbets Field. It looks fantastic (the whole park does) and adds a lot of retro feel to the park.

[@davidgoldin2577]

Finally visited the site of Ebbets Field (the block is configured the same). Looks much smaller in real life, but you can definitely envision what it must have been like.

[@bigk8210]

The Mets are themselves a tribute; blue for the Dodgers, orange for the Giants. MLB allowed the moves to California since so many people were moving out west and they didn't want a rival third Major League to form there. And since teams were traveling more by plane (the prior furthest trip was a day by train between St. Louis and Boston) and less by train teams could be out west.

[@chrisbacos]

Another factor in the westward expansion of professional sports was the rise of television.

[@kevinmiller6380]

​@@chrisbacosThat's true, too.

[@chrisbacos]

@@kevinmiller6380 I forgot to include air travel as another factor in the growth of pro sports south of the Mason-Dixon Line and west of the Mississippi River.

[@thebestbaseballguy]

If I could go back and save one ballpark, this is the one I'd pick.

[@Checkmate34851]

Absolutely. It’s a crime to baseball culture and tradition that Fenway and Wrigley are still alive but not Ebbets.

[@yakamarezlife]

I'd save tigers stadium just saying

[@xxGravyBabyxx]

Same! Ebbets Field was a jewel but just way to crowded. It should of been kept as a museum at least.

[@danbratten3103]

Exactly! This was the stadium where the color barrier was broken! It didn't happen at Yankee Stadium. It wasn't at the Polo Grounds. It was at Ebbets Field! So much history, gone.

[@kevinmiller6380]

​@@Checkmate34851Or Comiskey Park. Comiskey would likely still be standing if cheap assed owner Jerry Reinsdorf hadn't demanded a new ballpark built, or else he would have pulled the Sox out of Chicago, and move them to Tampa where the D-Rays play today. Goodbye old friend (Comiskey Park).

[@jamespyle777]

Ebbets Field was the place where the first NFL game was televised. It was the Eagles and the Dodgers.

[@tollboothjason]

1:29 $2 in 1955 is, according to my Inflation Calculator app, $22.55 in today's money. Still not a bad price.

[@TheBatugan77]

The thing is, inflation was a lot slower back then. I could still get into Yankee Stadium in the mid 60s for $1-2 Gen Admission, as a school kid. And the el train on Jerome Avenue was only 10-20 cents!

[@richshort8120]

The Dodgers play at Ebbets Field from 1913 to 1957. that's only 44 years, not over 50 years. The Dodgers also play 15 games at Roosevelt Stadium from 1956-1957 at Jersey City, NJ. Nice video thanks for posting

[@cmdrflake]

The Dodgers fans could blame Robert Moses in part as MR. Moses was dead set on building what would be Shea Stadium in Queens, not Brooklyn.

[@kevinmiller6380]

cmndrflake-What for? It's easier to blame Walter O'Malley than it is Moses. The more I think about it the more I'm convinced O'Malley is an innocent victim than he is a villain.

[@rentslave]

A lot of people are still alive who went there but how many of them saw the Dodgers play in Jersey City as did I?

[@astrostar49]

Time to make another video about the Oakland A's situation!

[@stevenvitte]

It's a shame what happened to Ebbets Field. A mirror reflection of what would become the norm decades later; demolishing older, more treasured sites just to get larger, more expensive sites (that are not always better). I know Brooklyn as a community had so many issues when the Dodgers left, but to be shunned from pro sports until the NBA's Nets came just felt wrong.

[@BLACKSTA361]

Ill never forgive them for what theh did to the old Penn Station. What a mistake

[@kenlauerer3376]

Robert Moses not Walter O'Malley was the reason the Dodgers left Brooklyn. Altho9uhg I was not a Brooklyn resident, I totally understand how their fans feel.

[@gloc1639]

crazy to think there was a whole era of life that is now something else

[@cosmostrek512]

giants had a offer to move to minnesota. the dodgers were not moving unless the giants came with them. they wanted a team close to play against. jack roosevelt robinson was actually traded to the giants but retired he would only play for the dodgers and did not want to go west.

[@kevinmiller6380]

cosmostrek-Not to mention the fact that Jackie had got himself a job working for the Chock Full O'Nuts coffee ☕ company.

[@adamsmith583]

Thank you for your hard work

[@SACSportsAdventures]

Iconic ballpark! Love the nod towards Citi Field.

[@lonniestephens6254]

I wonder what it would be like if the Dodgers had stayed in Brooklyn, NY?

[@stevenvitte]

A few things about that scenario: 1) The Mets would never have existed if the Dodgers stayed in Brooklyn (or the Giants stayed in Manhattan). 2) Los Angeles would have probably gotten an expansion franchise in the early 1960s since MLB was set to expand west anyway. 3) Had the Dodgers stayed in Brooklyn, the Giants would have had to find another east coast team to relocate out west with them. Otherwise, it would've been impossible to justify moving to San Francisco all by themselves, or at least consider moving somewhere else like Minneapolis or any of the Texas markets at that time.

[@kevinmiller6380]

Plus ➕ the fact that MLB wanted to expand westward, since airline travel was becoming more common, instead of the slower train 🚉 travel, and more games were being televised, because tv was becoming the norm.

[@samdoggtheinfamous253]

An all time classic good choice

[@My.IMMACULATE.Conception.8]

Can you do one on The Great Western Forum from Inglewood CA. It has a lot of history. And The Rise and fall of the Hollywood Park Racetrack and Casino in Inglewood. Thank you

[@jvsmith7888]

Good, but too short. I've never seen pictures of inside the facade and other interior spaces (not the field and bleachers). Do these pictures exist?

[@rosariosalemi7153]

Note to creators of the above Y.T. video: Ebbets Field was demolished in 1960, LESS than fifty yers after its opening in 1913.

[@nickmele9968]

Very nice

[@MrRubybare]

Well done. I enjoy your style of speaking.

[@BLACKSTA361]

Captain America after waking up -Best Friend Gone -Girlfriend gone -His favourite team Brooklyn Dodgers gone Must've been a rough period

[@ericgoldfarb4870]

1916 world series was brooklyn vs boston

[@TheBatugan77]

Casey Stengel vs. Babe Ruth. The two would meet up again in 1923.

[@samdoggtheinfamous253]

Think maybe sometime a video on the old Giants Stadium?

[@cataginandtonic]

Ebbets Field was built without a press box, and only two men's rooms. Lines would get so long guys would piss in the corners, and on hot summer days the rotunda stank like a sewer.

[@TheBatugan77]

The place was built in 1913. Probably pre-dated indoor plumbing!

[@My.IMMACULATE.Conception.8]

I dont know if you have but could you do the Edwards Jone Dome. And LA Coliseum

[@forgottenplaces9780]

I have, its on there

[@My.IMMACULATE.Conception.8]

@@forgottenplaces9780 Thank you How about the Old Hollywood Park Casino and Race Track Horse Racing from Inglewood Ca or the Fabulous Forum where the Kings and Lakers used to play. Thanks. 🤝

[@rustbeltrobclassic2512]

Grand parents met each other in line at Ebbets field and got married 2 years later..

[@TheBatugan77]

That's great!

[@brendagraves1148]

Ebbets feild is the GOAT

[@CBlixk6300]

Frm a baseball field to gettin slugs shot at you by GDs that’s a wild history😂😂😂

[@TheBatugan77]

In fact, not only would Ebbets be gone regardless if the Dodgers stayed, it's entirely plausible that it's REPLACEMENT would likewise be gone, as is Shea and the refurbished Yankee Stadium. Ballparks that last 60 years are outliers. Wrigley, Fenway and Dodger Stadium are all ancient by stadium standards.

[@jmljnyc]

Another thing destroyed by Robert Moses, who refused to work with the Dodgers and Giants to keep them in NYC. NYC is still recovering from the damage Robert Moses did to it.

[@americangiant1003]

John while no doubt Moses deserves much of the blame, others are at fault as well. While he was a fairly good Commissioner (allowing the smooth transition of Black and Latino Players to become a permanent part of MLB following Jackie) Ford Frick dropped the ball on the Dodgers/Giants crisis. Frick IMO should have allowed O’Malley and Giants Ownership led by Stoneham to switch/transfer their clubs and let those 2 get the new LA and SF expansion clubs. And finally allow 1 or even 2 new MLB clubs return to the NYC area maintaining the “Giants” and “Dodgers” names at new ballparks say in both Downtown Brooklyn and the current Mets Stadium site in Queens.

[@shanekeenaNYC]

@@americangiant1003 Imagine the 4 eastern boroughs all have MLB clubs, and they would each be affiliated with an NFL team, sharing a single ownership structure. The baseball teams and football teams would each be required to have different colors and uniforms to distinguish their brands. Manhattan (Giants, both Baseball and Football) Brooklyn (Dodgers, both Baseball and Football) Queens (Mets and Jets) Bronx (Yankees, both Baseball and Football) Additionally, the city would have 2 semi-traveling teams using all 4 home venues throughout the year. Atlantics Knickerbockers (Baseball, Basketball)

[@tobygoodguy4032]

You need a little recovery yourself bub. Start out by never again driving on a Moses road. 🤠

[@TheBatugan77]

​@@tobygoodguy4032 ☝️😆👍Whoa, stupid!

[@azadmajors2098]

Don't be antisemitic.. Robert Moses was Jewish so he was perfect!!!