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Brooklyn Dodgers 1955 Championship Banner Displayed for 100th Anniversary of Ebbets Field at Barclays Center

Written by Sara Casten on April 11th, 2013

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On April 9, 2013 the Brooklyn Nets home game vs. the Philadelphia 76ers began with a rare treat: a presentation of the one and only Brooklyn Dodgers 1955 Championship Banner. This special display of the banner was all part of the centennial celebration of Ebbets Field, which opened its doors one hundred years ago on this same date in 1913.

The Banner itself has quite an interesting history! When the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles in 1957 the banner went with the team. In 1959, during a press conference a group of New York journalists decided that the banner belonged in New York, and not out on the west coast, and they hatched a plan to steal it. It is uncertain how they distracted the owners and other journalists. One version of the story involved a wastepaper basket fire. Regardless, the “plotters” succeeded and the banner was on its way back to New York the next morning.

One of culprits, Stan Issacs a sports writer for Newsday who passed away on April 2, would keep the banner in his Long Island home before giving it to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY. However, it was not Issacs to give, and in July 1996 Peter O’Malley formally gave the banner to the Brooklyn Historical Society.

The championship banner has since been cleaned and conserved.  You can see the extra fabric that was added to the back of the banner to help support the original in the photo as the banner is being unrolled. During the Presentation the banner was joined by Nets CEO Brett Yormark; Brooklyn Historical Society Board Chairman JimRossman; Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz; several Brooklyn Dodgers fans; and of course the Brooklynettes.

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Brooklyn History Photo of the Week: Ebbets Field Rotunda

Written by Michael Satalof on March 21st, 2012

Ebbets Field rotunda, ca. 1950, v1991.11.16.1; Harry Kalmus papers and photographs; Brooklyn Historical Society.

As spring awakens, so does baseball. This photograph comes from the Harry Kalmus collection and shows the rotunda entrance of Ebbets Field, the majestic Flatbush home of the Brooklyn Dodgers. It appears to be a slow business day for the snack booth outside the ballpark. Perhaps it is still morning and the stadium crew is preparing for game day behind the closed gates. Seasoned Brooklynites may recall being able to enter the rotunda through one of twelve turnstiles. The interior of the rotunda featured a chandelier with twelve baseball bats holding twelve baseball lamps. The Dodgers have long since left Flatbush and Ebbets Field has been replaced by a housing complex, but the Dodgers and the legacy of Ebbets Field live on in BHS’s current exhibition Home Base: Memories of the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field on view through April 1, 2012.

Interested in seeing more photos from BHS’s collection? Visit our online image gallery, which includes a selection of our images. To search our entire collection of images visit BHS’s Othmer Library Wed-Fri, 1:00-5:00 p.m.

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How fun is this?

Written by Sady on June 25th, 2010
Illustration by Sarah Lippett

Own This City, Time Out New York, June 24-30, 2010

Check out this awesome illustration of the Brooklyn Historical Society by Sarah Lippett in this week’s issue of Time Out New York!  Our exhibit Home Base: Memories of the Brooklyn Dodgers and Ebbets Field is featured among other great New  York Water Taxi destinations.  Click here to see the full image.

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Ebbets Field Oral History project

Written by Sady on February 22nd, 2010

Miss Genevieve Ebbets at Ebbets Field, April 5, 1913; photo courtesy of Library of Congress, Flickr The Commons

Miss Genevieve Ebbets at Ebbets Field, April 5, 1913; photo courtesy of Library of Congress, Flickr The Commons

Do you have a story to share about Ebbets Field?

The Brooklyn Historical Society invites you to share your experiences of Ebbets Field and your memories of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

This is an exclusive opportunity to share your story and have it archived as part of the BHS oral history collection.  Your interview may also be included in BHS’s upcoming exhibit about Ebbets Field and the Brooklyn Dodgers, opening on June 3, 2010.

Interviews will be conducted by local oral historians in partnership with high school students as part of BHS’s Exhibition Laboratory Program. Interviews will be scheduled for March 23 and March 25 and will take 30 minutes.

To nominate yourself or someone you know to be interviewed email or call 718-222-4111 ext. 241 today. Please include your full name, telephone number, email address and a brief description of your connection to Ebbets Field and the Dodgers.

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Open Forum: Dodgers

Written by Sady on March 19th, 2009

This Saturday, March 21, 1 – 3 PM BHS is hosting an a program: 

Walter O’Malley and the Brooklyn Dodgers, A New View a conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael D’Antonio and Peter O’Malley, moderated by Richard Sandomir, Sports Broadcasting Reporter for the New York Times, followed by a Q&A session, on the occasion of the launch of a new book Forever Blue.

This program has sparked lots of press and community interest.  BHS is providing this open forum for discussion: we invite you to share your thoughts in the comments section below.  This blog forum will be open through March 31st.

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