Ebbets Field

Ebbets Field was a baseball stadium in Brooklyn. It was the stadium of the Brooklyn Dodgers. The smallest stadium in the National League was built by architect Clarence Randall Van Buskink and opened on 9 April 1913.

It had a capacity of 25,000 spectators, which in 1932 was expanded to 32,000. As of February 23, 1960, three years after the move of the Dodgers to Los Angeles and five years after their first World Series championship, the stadium was demolished.

Then it went down in the collective American people soul as almost mystical, lost place. In many novels, among others with Paul Auster and Don DeLillo in "Underworld" was described.