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Rare Remnant of a Lost Ballpark
When the subject of baseball in Brooklyn comes up, the discussion centers around Ebbets Field, the Flatbush venue most famously home to The Boys of Summer. Those legendary 1940s and '50s teams that featured such historic and beloved players as Jackie Robinson, Duke Snider, Pee Wee Reese, Roy Campanella and Gil Hodges. Ebbets Field hosted its last major league game in 1957 and was torn down during the winter of 1960. But decades earlier, just before World War One, the Dodgers were based in the Park Slope area and played at Washington Park. Once they moved out, the land was occupied by another stadium, which housed a different franchise. The upstart Federal League, which played in the 1914 and '15 seasons, had a Brooklyn team called the TipTops. Owned by a local baking magnate Robert Ward, whose company produced TipTop bread, the club took over the abandoned lot along 3rd Street and built a new brick and steel venue. The only no-hitter in the Federal League's two-year r
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I am not a meteorologist, but the future radar was looking bad for most of the day. They could have called the game before 2 or 3 as far as I’m concerned because the best they could have hoped for was a 9:30 start by the time everything was ready. They were more concerned about sticking to the “schedule”.
There were too many built-in off days during the series to reduce the number of games on the same day. Unfortunately, the TV money is in control.
No lasting dent on MLB’s image - They’ve been doing this in one way or another for decades. Baseball survives despite their efforts to kill it for money and dumb rule changes.