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Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field

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).


Ebbets Field Oral History project

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.