Ebbets Field, the intimate home of the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1913 to 1957.
"Nobody ever accused Rod Kennedy Jr. of thinking too small. A Brooklyn Dodgers fan who took a beating in a Pelham, N. Y., schoolyard in the 1950s defending his team’s honor against partisans of the New York Yankees and Giants, he began making his living 35 years later by manufacturing tiny tin replicas of ballparks. ... Dissatisfied with recapturing Brooklyn’s past in miniature, however, Mr. Kennedy soon enlarged his ambitions by many orders of magnitude, embarking on a quixotic quest to build a one-quarter-scale replica of Ebbets Field to house a Dodgers museum. ... The first major-league challenge was to locate the long-lost plans of Brooklyn’s cathedral of baseball, where the Dodgers played from 1913 to 1957, before famously breaking the borough’s heart by decamping to Los Angeles. The ballpark was demolished in 1960 by a wrecking ball painted with curving seams to resemble a gargantuan baseball. ..."
NY Times
Mr. Kennedy dreamed of rebuilding Ebbets Field at full size, but the largest replica he ever produced was a miniature tin that played “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” when you opened it.
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