Talk:Ebbets Field

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I just saw a commercial with Spike Lee about Jackie Robinson, in front of a facade that says Ebbets Field - and some banners in a library. Is there a library at the old Ebbets Field location?

Flatbush?

As a man who spent part of his childhood om the corner of Montgomery Street and Dearborn Court, within easy walking distance of Ebbets Field, I have to say that the neighborhood was and is known as Crown Heights. But the immediate neighborhood had, before the construction of Ebbets Field, been known as Pig Town, because of all the pig farms there. Too Old 16:41, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No, there are some rather rough projects - Justin

Legacy section POV

I've added a POV notice to the section above since it seems rather nostalgic, speaking of the "heartbroken" fans that the team abandoned, etc. It seems to have been written by someone with a pro-Dodgers POV. --Tom (talk - email) 13:20, 11 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There are endless sources that talk about the various emotions the Brooklyn Dodgers' fans felt when their team left. Wahkeenah 01:53, 12 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The Brooklyn Dodgers are till this day one of the great tragedies in professional sports. While it may seem to be a pro-Dodger POV it is accurate to those who lived in that generation. The move to Los Angeles blew open the doors that baseball was just a "kids game" and the mere fact that players got paid to play a kids game. Thanks to Walter O'Malley the mainstream media began covering baseball as a business.

Our generation has lived through this in the form of the Cleveland Browns who under Art Modell left Cleveland for greener pastures in Baltimore. The biggest difference is that the NFL owners knew this was wrong and rectified this by keeping the Browns likeness and franchise history with the city of Cleveland.

Very sad to think about what Walter O'Malley did. The Brooklyn Dodgers were the most profitable team in baseball. O'Malley was always crying about a new ballpark, "how can we survive at Ebbets Field when teams like the Milwaukee Braves are packing 45,000+ in a brand new ballpark. We won't be able to compete for talent." This was O'Malley's battle cry, however, O'Malley conveniently left out the fact that he was the only National League team who was enjoying T.V. revenue. The Braves were packing Milwaukee County Stadium because of two factors, the first being a honeymoon with the city of Milwaukee, and the second being that the Braves did not broadcast their games on free T.V. Where are the Braves today?