My nephew posted on Facebook that he saw the movie 42. A biography of Jackie Robinson. My memory for today is seeing him play at Ebbet's Field along with Roy Camponello Pee Wee Reese , Duke Snyder and Gil Hodges.
Ebbets field was one of the original baseball stadiums, the home of the Brooklyn Dodgers. It is gone now but i do recall it had windows. We sat in an upper section. Actually my seat was behind a steel beam. I was less than 10 years old because the Dodgers left Brooklyn for LA in 1958.
New York had three baseball teams then. The beloved dodgers at Ebbet's Field, the Yankees at the Stadium and the Giants at the Polo grounds.
I remember the construction of the Shea Stadium for the NY Mets on a piece of ground that until that time full of junk yards. My father and a friend of His ran a small auto repair shop there for a while.
I have not been to many major league baseball games recently. The last time was when my father turned 90. We had a family outing to watch the Mets play the Yankees at the city stadium which replaced the Shea. It may be nostalgic but the new stadium does not have the ambience of Ebbet's Field.
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