When was ebbets field built

Ebbets Field Miscellaneous Items of Interest. Ebbets Field Postcard 1. Ebbets Field Postcard 2. Ebbets Field Postcard 3. Ebbets Field Postcard 4.

Ebbets Field Postcard 5. The Dodgers were moved to Los Angeles in , leaving an empty, decrepit baseball diamond in the middle of Flatbush that was finally demolished in To this day, the site of the former Ebbets Field is nothing but rubble, with housing projects built over the remains of the stadium. Print This View. Ebbets Field During the first half of the twentieth century, Brooklyn, New York was the home of the proud Ebbets Field, a major league baseball stadium reminiscent of a modern Roman coliseum.

Historic View of Ebbets Field. Historic Photo of Jackie Robinson. The first addition to Ebbets Field was in when bleachers were added in the outfield.

In , a press box was finally constructed and hung under the upper deck. The largest addition to Ebbets Field occured in when the double decked grandstand was extended down the third base line, around the left field foul pole and into centerfield.

The upper deck in left field hung over the playing field. A scoreboard and a 40 ft. After the expansions Ebbets Field changed little during the rest of its history.

Night baseball was first played on June 15, when a no-hitter was thrown against the Dodgers by Cincinnati Reds pitcher Johnny Vander Meer. Hilda Chester became a popular woman who sat in the bleachers and made lots of noise with her cowbell. In the late s and early s Ebbets Field became structurally unsound, the plumbing was bad, had a small capacity and narrow aisles.

It was also constrained by its location and the community was in decline. As fans moved out of Brooklyn they wanted to drive to the ballpark. However, there was limited parking at Ebbets Field and it was far away from major roads. If constructed it would have had a seating capacity of 52, and been the first stadium with a dome. He was willing to be a tenant in a state owned stadium but opposition from the most powerful person in New York City, Robert Moses prevented this.