The Brooklyn Dodgers were a Major League Baseball team founded in 1883 as the Brooklyn Grays. In 1884, it became a member of the American Association as the Brooklyn Atlantics before joining the Natio
Photograph of the 1913 Brooklyn Dodgers team
Jackie Robinson with the Dodgers in 1949
Hall of Fame C Roy Campanella (1948–1957)
Hall of Fame SS Pee Wee Reese (1940–1942, 1946–1957)
Ebbets Field was a Major League Baseball stadium in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, New York. It is mainly known for having been the home of the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team of the National League
Brooklyn Dodgers
…Dodgers played in two stadiums in South Brooklyn, each named Washington Park, and at Eastern Park in the neighborhood of Brownsville before moving to Ebbets Field in the neighborhood of Crown Heights in 1912. The team is noted for signing Jackie Robinson in 1947 as the first black player in the modern major…
Ray Caldwell pitching in the first exhibition game at Ebbets Field, April 5, 1913. The dirt walkway visible between the mound and the plate disappeared after the 1910s.
Charles Ebbets' daughter throws out the first pitch, at an exhibition game on April 5, 1913.
Game 1, 1920 World Series