Do you have a story to share about Ebbets Field?

The Brooklyn Historical Society invites you to share your experiences of Ebbets Field and your memories of the Brooklyn Dodgers. 

This is an exclusive opportunity to share your story and have it archived as part of the BHS oral history collection. Your interview may also be included in an upcoming book about Ebbets Field or in BHS’s exhibit on Ebbets Field and the Brooklyn Dodgers, opening on June 3, 2010.

Interviews will be conducted by local oral historians in partnership with high school students as part of BHS’s Exhibition Laboratory Program.  Interviews will be scheduled for March 23 and March 25 and will take 30 minutes.

To nominate yourself or someone you know to be interviewed contact: exlab@brooklynhistory.org or 718-222-4111 ext. 241

Please include your full name, telephone number, email address and a brief description of your connection to Ebbets Field and the Dodgers.

If you are accepted as an interview subject, a staff member at BHS will call to schedule your interview.

Share YOUR Memories

We are looking for fan’s memories of Ebbets Field some of which will be published in our book. Please use the below form to send us your memory.

If your memory is of a specific game, please try to provide as much detail as possible about the date, opponent, weather etc. We ask you to bear in mind that the focus is on Ebbets Field so we are especially interested in what you remember about the ball park and why it is important to you.

For example, why you loved Ebbets Field is more relevant than how much you loved it.

Finally, please provide an e-mail address so that we can contact you especially if your memory is selected for the book.

*By clicking SUBMIT, I give permission for the use of the above memory in the historic ballpark volume about Ebbets Field to be published by McFarland and Co. I further acknowledge that no remuneration is due to me for the use of this material in the book.