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Brooklyn Dodgers and Pittsburgh Pirates play the final game in the history of Ebbets Field

 

On September 24, 1957, the Brooklyn Dodgers and Pittsburgh Pirates play the final game in the history of Ebbets Field.

Grounding out, Pirates’ left-handed first baseman Dee Fondy becomes last player ever to bat in Ebbets Field as the Dodgers blanked the Bucs, 2 – 0, in the last major league game ever played in Brooklyn. Danny McDevitt is the winner and Gil Hodges has the last RBI. The Dodgers, who will move to Los Angeles after the season,

 

 


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