The LAST Boy of Summer??????

[DODGER DEB]

WE all thought that the last BROOKLYN DODGER to pitch at OUR Ebbets Field was DANNY MCDEVITT, on Tuesday, September 24, 1957. I know I did, because I was there and saw it.

Now, comes this story in the NY Times today that "questions that fact". Well, sort of.....

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/11/sports/baseball/11cheer.html?_r=1&ref=sports&oref=slogin

I know there have been a few formers in the past few years that have, from time to time, brought up the fact that there were "other games" played at OUR Ebbets Field after 1957. This story supports that fact.

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[Lprof]

[QUOTE=DODGER DEB]WE all thought that the last BROOKLYN DODGER to pitch at OUR Ebbets Field was DANNY MCDEVITT, on Tuesday, September 24, 1957. I know I did, because I was there and saw it.

Now, comes this story in the NY Times today that "questions that fact". Well, sort of.....

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/11/sports/baseball/11cheer.html?_r=1&ref=sports&oref=slogin

I know there have been a few formers in the past few years that have, from time to time, brought up the fact that there were "other games" played at OUR Ebbets Field after 1957. This story supports that fact.]

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I seem to recall "Negro League" games taking place there, around 1960 or so. But that is a very vague recollection; I recall trying to convince a couple of my friends to go--unsuccessfully. (Now that I think about it, I am surprised there would still be "Negro Leagues" by 1960, but the memory still sticks in my mind

[EbtsFldGuy]

What a poignant story! Thanks for posting the link.

Among the ranks of the members of this board, there must be others who lived close to Ebbets Field for some years after 1957 who can tell interesting tales of the fate of the park and the area after the move.

I'll bet that Mr. Reiss and Mr. Cohen would be dismayed to see the current state of their old neighborhood.

[VIBaseball]

Lprof, you are correct about the Negro Leagues games. This is covered in the article posted on the "Our Ebbets Field History" thread, post #118, page 5.

It would appear Don Reiss's excellent adventure may have been just a few days after Satchel Paige made his barnstorming appearance in the Negro American League doubleheader on 8/23/59 -- the last true professional baseball event at Ebbets that I am aware of.

[KCGHOST]

Nice story, but you have to have been a bona fide Dodger to be one of the Boys of Summer.

[Flatbush Flock]

The Winter 2006 edition of Elysian Fields Quarterly has an article by Leo J. Callahan called "The Last Homer at Ebbets." The article focuses on the PSAL championship game of June 23, 1958 when Van Buren High beat Curtis. But Callahan writes that there were a handful of college games after that and another PSAL championship game on June 5, 1959 between Curtis and Theodore Roosevelt High. He does not say who the winning pitcher was in that game.

[VIBaseball]

Mr. Callahan was not in full possession of the facts. The last homer at Ebbets (professional or otherwise, unless Don Reiss served one up) was hit by Herm Green of the Kansas City Monarchs on 8/23/59 off a blooper ball from Satchel Paige.