More than 25,000 fans were in attendance for the first game at Ebbets Field, with another 7,000 watching from outside of the ballpark. NEWSLETTERS Emailed Daily.

He broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier right there at Ebbets Field. That moment changed the game — and America — forever. It was one of those defining moments in history. But what a ...

His name was Jackie Robinson. Robinson broke baseball’s color barrier on April 15, 1947. He stepped into the batter’s box at Ebbets Field in the Flatbush community. He started at first base after ...

The Tampa Bay Rays recognize the 78th anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking baseball’s color barrier. The Rays hosted a public baseball clinic on Sunday, April 13 and contributed an annual ...

1913 - The Brooklyn Superbas and Philadelphia Phillies play the first game in the history of Ebbets Field in front of a ... “conduct deemed detrimental to baseball.” 1953 - Twenty-one year ...

1913 — Brooklyn’s Ebbets Field hosted its first game, an exhibition ... 1972 — For the first time in Major League Baseball history, the regular season fails to open due to the player ...

It was 2013 and Phillips was printing up t-shirts of old minor league teams that didn’t exist and selling them to die hard baseball fans when Ebbets Field Flannels approached him. “They said ...

PRINCETON, N.J., Feb. 23. -- Princeton's basket-ball team defeated the Harvard five here last evening in a fast and well-played game by the score of 22 to 14. The work of both teams was unusually ...