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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 The Dodgers have long since left Flatbush and Ebbets Field has been replaced by a housing complex, but the Dodgers and the legacy of Ebbets Field live on in BHS’s current exhibition Home Base: Memories of the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets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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Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field

Written by Sady on June 2nd, 2010

Through archives, photos and oral histories, Home Base: Memories of the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field explores the connection between Ebbets Field, the Dodgers and the Brooklyn community.

This exhibition is curated by high school students from Brooklyn Technical High School, Cobble Hill School of American Studies, The Packer Collegiate Institute and Saint Ann’s School as part of the Brooklyn Historical Society’s Exhibition Laboratory (Ex Lab) after-school museum studies program. Ex Lab introduces high school students to the art of exhibition development: conducting research, selecting artifacts, writing text and working with scholars and curators to understand how to communicate ideas through an exhibition.

Listen to Memories of the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field:

The Green Grass

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Date Nights at Ebbets Field

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Famous Fans

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George Shuba & Carl Erskine

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Red Barber

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Ebbets Field’s Corner Stone

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The Battle for Space

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A Stadium in Brooklyn: The Nets and Atlantic Yards

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For more memories of the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field, visit this exhibit at BHS opening June 3, 2010 and tune in to the BHS podcast (search iTunes for Brooklyn Historical).


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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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Brooklyn Dodgers on WNYC

Written by Sady on April 14th, 2009

If you missed the Forever Blue event at BHS on March 21st, you can listen to it here on WNYC:

Join Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael D’Antonio with Peter O’Malley, president of the Los Angeles Dodgers 1970 – 1998, and Richard Sandomir, Sports Broadcasting Reporter for the New York Times, as they discuss the true story of Walter O’Malley and the Dodgers of Brooklyn and Los Angeles on the occasion of the launch of Mr. D’Antonio’s new book Forever Blue.

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Batters Up

Written by Sady on March 21st, 2009

Forever Blue author Michael D’Antonio was on the Leonard Lopate Show on WNYC yesterday.

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