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 ...