In 1912 Charles Ebbets turns over the first silver spadeful of frosty soil as ground is broken in the Pigtown section of Brooklyn for the new stadium. It’s scheduled to be called Washington Park, but Len Wooster of the TIMES said, Hell, that name won’t mean anything out here. Why don’t you call it Ebbets Field? It’s your monument, your idea, and your money. Alright, he said, that’s what we’ll call it. Ebbets Field. The other writers there were Abe Yager of the EAGLE, Bill Granger of the CITIZEN, and Bill Rafter of the STANDARD-UNION. Ebbetrs called them the Four Kings. And that’s how it came to be called Ebbets Field.

Ebbets Field will open officially on April 9, 1913 and will serve as the Dodgers home until 1957.