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Date Posted: 20:59:46 04/17/12 Tue
Author: Jimmy
Subject: Blueprints for Ebbets Field found.

They were presumed lost, one more casualty from a move that broke a borough's heart.
But this week, a century-long odyssey will come to an end when the original 1912 blueprints for Ebbets Field, the iconic home of the beloved, bedeviling Brooklyn Dodgers, will be displayed in public for the first time in decades.

They will be the centerpiece of an exhibit on the Dodgers at Brooklyn College set to open on Thursday. Three of the 18 plans will be on display, alongside team photographs, cartoons and one of the last home plates used at Ebbets Field—one with a memorable dedication to the owner who moved the team to Los Angeles after the 1957 season: "May Walter O'Mally roast in hell."

Ebbets Field, the home of the beloved Brooklyn Dodgers, the borough's former baseball team, was demolished in the 1960's. Original Ebbets Field blueprints - presumed to be lost for decades - will be displayed to the public for the first time later this month.
The Dodgers played for 45 seasons in Ebbets Field, where baseball's first televised game took place, in 1939, and Jackie Robinson became the first African-American to play a Major League game, in 1947. The field was torn down in 1960 and replaced by a public-housing project, but its cozy design remains an enduring standard for elegance and intimacy that modern architects have emulated.

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