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ORIGINAL BROOKLYN BASE BALL PARK 1909 BROOKLYN DO

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Long before Dodger Stadium, before California, even before Ebbets Field, the Brooklyn Dodgers played for a while in South Brooklyn. Their home was Washington Park. It was a small structure that fit into the grid street pattern of the neighborhood, at the intersection of a pair of trolley lines. This was the park in which Casey Stengel made his Dodger playing debut. This park also serves as one-half of the first (pre) subway double hitter between the Giants and Dodgers. For many years, many individuals have passed this inconspicuous wall not knowing the significance of it. In a city that rebuilds itself on a continual basis, it is amazing that this bit of history has survived. In a borough where they still, to this day, bemoan the departure of "Dem Bums", most people would not know that a ballpark wall still stands. riginal old postcard from Washington Park. Front marked "Brooklyn Base Ball Park 1909, The Pictorial Bews Co. NY". ... includes certificate that this lot came from the Estate of Louise Mondani Graham, owner of the Brass Bugle Antique Barn in Cornwall Bridge CT.

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