This lot is closed. Bidding ended on 5/11/2001.
Ebbets Field was like no other ballpark. Even 30 years after its demise, it still lives on as a shrine, and a magnet for memories that stoked generations of Brooklynites. No other stadium has ever been welded to the fans it housed quite like Ebbets during the time the Dodgers played there from 1913-57. The stadium's unique dimensions, such as its tier of grandstand overhanging the playing field in center, its chicken-screen rightfield fence, and its outfield wall that was a mishmash of ads from local businesses (including the one for Abe Stark's Clothing Store, that promised a suit to anyone who could hit the sign on a fly), were ingrained into the borough's consciousness. If people cried in the streets of Flatbush when the Bums left for L.A., they wanted to die when Ebbets was torn down. Today, to feel the vibes of the park, one can visit the old grounds it occupied, which is now an apartment complex named for the most fabled of the "Boys of Summer," Jackie Robinson. Or one can sit in this pair of Ebbets Field grandstand seats mercifully spared from the wrecking ball. The seats have been beautifully preserved, its dark green paint rich and smooth and virtually unchipped. There is a "26" painted in white on one seat and a "27" on the other and a gold plaque is attached to the right chair that reads, "Ebbets Field, Brooklyn, NY, 1913-1957, Original Stadium Seat."