That was a heartbreaking time for Ron Schweiger, a Brooklyn borough historian who has fond childhood memories of seeing the team play at Ebbets Field. At the time, games on television were in ...

The construction for what would be known as Ebbets Field began on March 14, 1912, and took just more than one year to complete. Ebbets Field hosted its first game on April 5, 1913, when Brooklyn ...

In 1912, construction began. By the time it was completed a year later, Pigtown had been transformed into Ebbets Field — baseball's newest shrine, where some of the game's greatest drama would ...

The Dodgers left Ebbets Field for good in 1957, never to return. The borough went into mourning a second time on Aug. 27, 1972, when the Brooklyn-based Ebinger bakery chain closed its doors.

The visiting Los Angeles Dodgers are ready to take the field in Brooklyn at the new Ebbets Field with the 2025 National League pennant on the line. Standing in the way of the L.A. nine are their ...

Bettmann Archive Brown debuted for the Dodgers on Aug. 3, 1944, at the age of 16 when he started at shortstop against the Cubs at Ebbets Field, and after stepping away during the 1946 season to ...

Jackie Robinson made history on April 15, 1947, when he broke baseball’s color barrier to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field. While winning Rookie of the Year honors and helping the Dodgers ...

He was 16 when he made his debut as a shortstop in an Ebbets Field doubleheader, becoming the youngest position player in modern major-league history. By Richard Goldstein Tommy Brown, who became ...