"A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives," Jackie Robinson said not long before he died in 1972.

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 ...

Ebbets Field has a rich history in baseball — and New York in particular. The stadium in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn was home to the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1913 to 1957 as well as the Brooklyn ...

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Brooklyn was where every uprooted native from ... Now a housing project occupies Ebbets Field, and one of its occupants, Rodney Kenner, 9, buried the Bums for all time last week as he rode a ...

after the way their devoted fans negotiated Brooklyn's busy streets. In 1912, construction began. By the time it was completed a year later, Pigtown had been transformed into Ebbets Field ...

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 ...

Ebbets Field has a rich history in baseball - and New York in particular. The stadium in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn was ...