I visited New York City again in 2013, one of my goals was taking the subway to Brooklyn. I wanted to visit the location where Ebbets Field had stood proudly. A nice walk through Prospect park lead to some social housing apartment buildings en lo an behold… there was the plaque I heard so much about. It was next to nothing. But still, I had a moment. Standing there where fans came to see the Dafiness Boys, the Boys of Summer play and finally win a World Series title.
Flash forward to October 2024, the 2024 World Series are in full swing and our Boys in Blue look good with a 3-1 lead against the yankees. I’m walking through the city and my eye lands on the New York Times at a newsstand. There is a article on the front page with the title “In Brooklyn, humble touch of home for the long-gone Dodgers”. I buy the paper and stuff it in my bag, to read it on the plane back home.
We take off just before the start of game five of the World Series and I dive into the article.
It tells the story of Ezra Askotzky, the maintance manager of the Ebbets Field Apartments and his encounters with people searching for the plaque that marks the location of home plate. My eyes widen. I had never heard of such a thing or else I’d visited it eleven years earlier.
so, if you're ever in Brooklyn, visit this historic place, or at least read the article in the New York Times, October 30th 2024, front page and A23.
