#263 Ebbets Field and the Glory Days of the Brooklyn Dodgers
The Bowery Boys: New York City History
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The Brooklyn Baseball Club
Brooklyn is the motherland of baseball. The team that we will be speaking about to day formed in 18 83, a team that, at least officially, was simply called the brooklyn baseball club. At its maximum capacity in the thirties, it was 35 thousand seats, which sounds like a lot, but the thing is, as they were just packed in like sardines in that old abbot's field. Their very first home game was at the parade ground in prospect park, aha, on march ninth, 18 83. But that was just one game. They moved into their new home at washington park,. It was a sigte of a famous revolutionary war
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