President Eisenhower is about to throw out the first pitch at Ebbets Field for game 1 of the 1956 World Series
President Eisenhower is about to throw out the first pitch at Ebbets Field for game 1 of the 1956...
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President Eisenhower is about to throw out the first pitch at Ebbets Field for game 1 of the 1956...
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“The field was even greener than my boy’s mind had pictured it. In later years,...
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August 17, 1957 – At Ebbets Field the field was full of future Hall of Famers as Sandy...
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Vin Scully at Ebbets Field
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Ebbets Field Ebbets Field was on the block bound by Bedford Avenue, Sullivan Place, McKeever...
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On November 13, 2006, the New York Mets break ground on their new ballpark, to be named Citi...
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Although the Bulova company had promised a free watch to any player who hit their clock located high above the Ebbets Field scoreboard, Bama Rowell didn’t receive the timepiece after his 1946 blast. The injustice is corrected more than 40 years later when the former Braves’ outfielder, whose blast is thought to be the inspiration for author Bernard Malamud having Roy Hobbs, the hero of his 1952 novel, The Natural, smashing a glass-shattering homer off the light tower, receives his wristwatch from Bulova on ‘Bama Rowell’ Day in Citronelle, Alabama, the honoree’s hometown.
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Twenty-eight months after the Dodgers play their last game in Brooklyn, the demolition of Ebbets Field finally begins when a wrecking ball, painted with red and white stitches, begins its work on the ballpark Brooklyn called home for 44 years. Before the demolition wheel-chair bound Roy Campanella, the team’s former All-Star catcher and three-time National League MVP is given an urn of dirt from behind home plate in front of a crowd of 200 faithful fans.
Read MorePosted by This Day in Baseball | Sep 24, 1957 | Ball Park, Lasts | 0 |
On September 24, 1957, the Brooklyn Dodgers and Pittsburgh Pirates play the final game in the...
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On August 31, 1957 the New York Giants vs Brooklyn Dodgers August 31, 1957.Saturday, August 31,...
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The Dodgers, in a 13-3 loss to Milwaukee at Ebbets Field, use eight pitchers in one game, tying a major league record. Johnny Podres gives up three home runs in the fourth frame when Nippy Jones, Hank Aaron, and Andy Pafko all go deep off the Brooklyn starter.
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The Brooklyn Sports Authority gets an engineering report on a 50,000-seat stadium in the downtown area. It will cost an estimated $20.7 million, including the land site. Indications are that there will be trouble finding a market for the bond issue.
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May 7, 1957 At Ebbets Field 9,800 fans came out to see the Cincinatti Redlegs face the Brooklyn...
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The Kratter Corporation grants Walter O’Malley an additional two years on the three-year lease on Ebbets Field agreed to last year. The new timeline means the ball club has a home in Brooklyn until 1961, but the extension may have been prompted by the Dodgers owner’s uncertainty about L.A’s ability to secure the land needed to build a stadium if the team moved to the West Coast.
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The sale of the historical, but out-of-date, Ebbets Field to real estate developer Marvin Kratter becomes one of the first indications the ballpark is nearing its end, and, perhaps, a harbinger of the Dodgers’ departure from Brooklyn. As part of the deal, club owner Walter O’Malley is given a three-year lease, with an additional two years to be added in January, to stay and play at the Flatbush facility, which means the ‘Bums’ have a potential home in the borough until 1961.
Read MorePosted by This Day in Baseball | Oct 10, 1956 | Classic Broadcast, Lasts, World Series, World Series Clinchers | 0 |
In Game 7 of the World Series, Johnny Kucks, allowing just three singles, blanks Brooklyn, 9-0, to give the Yankees their 17th World Championship in franchise history. In the last postseason game played at Ebbets Field, the 24 year-old right-hander ends the game by striking out Jackie Robinson, which turns out to be the Dodger infielder’s final major league at-bat when he decides to retire after being traded to the Giants in the off-season.
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Friday, October 5, 1956, Duke Snider barrels into Billy Martin during the first inning of game 2...
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On October 3, 1956 – Game 1 1956 World Series – Sal Maglie and the Brooklyn Dodgers...
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August 1, 1956 Bottom of the 8th, Jackie Robinson Is safe at second after a single off Lew...
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July 30, 1956 At Ebbets field Hank Aaron rounds third after going yard against Dodgers Ken Lehman....
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On June 17, 1956, Milwaukee Braves slugger Joe Adcock becomes the only player to hit a home run...
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Joe Adcock’s ninth-inning home run off Brooklyn right-hander Ed Roebuck, his second round-tripper of the game, proves to be the game-winner in the Braves’ 5-4 victory over the Dodgers. The blast to left field, which clears an 83-foot wall at the 350-foot mark, is believed to the only homer ever to land on the roof at Ebbets Field.
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Roy Campanella does the catching,as 21 yr.old Roberto Clemente takes a big swing in a 1956...
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On May 12, 1956, Carl Erskine of the Brooklyn Dodgers hurls a no-hitter against the New York...
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World Series at Ebbets Field – Brooklyn Dodger Roy Campanella at bat, with New York Yankee...
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1955 – In Game 3 of the World Series, the Dodgers’ Johnny Podres defeats Bob Turley who fails to last 2 innings against the Bums. C Roy Campanella leads the attack with 3 hits and 3 RBI, as Brooklyn wins 8 – 3.
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1955 – In a 7 – 5 loss to Brooklyn, Willie Mays hits his 9th homer at Ebbets Field to tie Joe Adcock’s mark.
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Sandy Koufax, in his second big league start, two-hits the Reds at Ebbets Field, 7-0. The 19 year-old bonus baby, displaying the dominance that he will feature during the 1960’s, goes the distance, striking out 14 Cincinnati batters.
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1955 – With his record at 18-1‚ the Dodgers’ Don Newcombe loses a 1 – 0 game to the Cubs’ Sam Jones. Newk’s two losses have both been to the Cubs.
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On June 1, 1955, future Hall of Famer Duke Snider hits three home runs at Ebbets Field, helping...
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On august 15, 1954 at Ebbets Field Gil Hodges hits his 200th career homerun. His blast came in the...
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Stan Musial, in a 13-4 rout of the Dodgers in Brooklyn, paces the Cardinals attack, hitting two homers and driving in seven runs. The defeat is Preacher Roe’s first loss to St. Louis at Ebbets Field in four years.
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On July 31, 1954, At Ebbets Field, using a borrowed bat, Milwaukee Braves slugger Joe Adcock sets...
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Brooklyn defeats Giant stalwart Sal Maglie in Ebbets Field, roughing him up for six runs on 11 hits. Since coming into the National League in 1945, the “Barber” had recorded 10 straight victories in the Brooklyn ballpark.
Read MoreAt Ebbets Field in the first game of a doubleheader, Phillies infielder Jim Command gets his first major league hit, a grand slam off Carl Erskine, and in the nightcap, he doubles in two more runs. ‘Igor’s’ offensive output during the twin bill will account for all of his major league RBIs.
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At Ebbets Field 1953. Eddie Mathews, Roy Campanella Ebbets Field | Eddie Mathews | Roy Campanella...
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September 22, 1953, Ebbets Field: Only 2,365 fans see Jackie Robinson’s only career appearance at...
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Giant rookie Al Worthington throws a four-hitter, blanking the Dodgers at Ebbets Field, 6-0. The whitewashing, which halts Brooklyn’s record NL streak of homering in 24 consecutive games and marks the only game this season the team will not a score, makes the 24 year-old right-hander the first National League freshman this century to throw consecutive shutouts at the start of a career, a feat that Karl Spooner will also match next season.
Read MorePosted by This Day in Baseball | Oct 2, 1952 | Classic Broadcast, World Series | 0 |
Carl Erskine strikes out 14 Yankees in Game 3 to establish a new World Series mark. The Dodger hurler’s performance bests the record of A’s Howard Ehmke, who struck out 13 Cubs in Game 1 of 1929 Fall Classic.
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On October 1, 1952, At Ebbets Field Joe Black becomes the first African-American pitcher to win a...
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8/2/1952: Hank Sauer hit a homer at Brooklyn in the third inning with two on base. The pitcher was Ben Wade. The game was rained out in the fifth inning. Sauer ended the season tied for the home run lead with Ralph Kiner with 37.
Read MorePosted by This Day in Baseball | May 21, 1952 | Batting Feat, Club Records, Record Setters | 0 |
On May 21, 1952, at Ebbets Field, the Brooklyn Dodgers put together an amazing record-setting...
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The Giants’ 3-1 victory over the Dodgers in the first game of the National League playoffs is the first major league contest to be televised coast-to-coast. CBS, who obtained rights to the game, transmits the picture from Ebbets Field but has to get the signal from ABC, who had made previous arrangements with WOR-TV, the New York station which carried Brooklyn’s regular season games.
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With his second home run of the game, the sixth time he has accomplished the feat this year, Gil Hodges hits his 36th round-tripper to establish a new franchise record for homers in a season. The Dodger first baseman’s seventh-inning three-run blast in the team’s 13-1 rout of Cincinnati at Brooklyn’s Ebbets Field surpasses the mark of 35 set by Babe Herman in 1930.
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On October 1, 1950, in the season finale, a Brooklyn win would have forced a playoff, and a...
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on September 19, 1950, Duke Snider gets a cake and a kiss on his 24th birthday at Ebbets Field....
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On August 31, 1950, Gil Hodges of the Brooklyn Dodgers ties a major league record by piling up 17...
Read MorePosted by This Day in Baseball | Oct 8, 1949 | Classic Broadcast, World Series | 0 |
On October 8, 1949 at Ebbets Field – Cliff Mapes broke a scoreless tie in the fourth inning...
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