As a 78 year old man, this brought a tear to my eye.

@glendakelley238

3 жыл бұрын

Me too, especially Zimm at the end...

@perryegolson833

2 жыл бұрын

@@glendakelley238 Campanella sitting there in the wheelchair at in the rubble of a great ballpark kind of got to me. It was powerful symbolism.

@kevinburke6055

Жыл бұрын

Now ur 80 hopefully still with us.

@531katie

Жыл бұрын

My dad would tear up. In Flatbush all you had to hear was “how’d we do today?” And so went the day. Brooklyn Wins! Music to everyone in Brooklyn’s ear. It was more like a religion than a team. Every game mattered. Daddy said we’d live and we’d die with dem bums After Omally sold out in 1962 then the Giants to San Francisco in 63 I think life in NY was on west coast time cause no Dodger or Giants fan would sink as low as to root for the Yankees. Then 67 came the blue and orange for Brooklyn and the NY Giants. (He called them Brooklyn that’s all. What hurt him the most they finally beat the Yankees in 1955 1st and only world champions and then 2 years later Omally the most hated man in Brooklyn Queens Manhattan…sold the team to Los Angeles and never should have stolen the name. That what really got him. After rooting for his team with Los Angeles on their shirts he became almost as never LA as never Yankees. Almost. Not quite. (They bought all their players…) now every team does. But back then the farm system grew the major league team. They raised a flag in Brooklyn to celebrate the day Omally passed away and many many years since Do they still do that. Kind of like Italy’s affection for Mussolini. Passionately about Baseball.

@DDEENY

Жыл бұрын

@@531katie Ah, the 1950's in New York - three major league baseball teams in three Boroughs. Eating, sleeping and drinking baseball. I hate to be nostalgic but what has become of American life since? 1963 saw the first and only coup d'etat in American history with the JFK assassination contrived and orchestrated from within the American CIA. And it's been steadily downhill ever since. Where has the "last, best hope of Earth" gone? "Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?"

I lived five blocks from Ebbet's. People would park on my block, and walk to the game. I could see the lights from our schoolyard, and the world was a wonderful place. There was only one World Series to remember and that was 1955. Yes, there used to be a ballpark, right here.

@DDEENY

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing.

I would like to think that if I could go back in time and spend ten years somewhere,it would be 1947-57 in Brooklyn. Being a Dodger fan,to watch Snyder,Campanella,Reese,Hodges,Robinson and the rest of the Boys of Summer would be a young boy's dream. But I don't think I could take the heartbreak,I really don't.

I am 78. As a youngster, I had the pleasure of going to games at the old Yankee Stadium, Ebbets Field, and the Polo Grounds, before the Dodgers and Giants abandoned New York. We were all so disappointed when that happened later. The lads in my class at St Philip Neri School, in Northport, NY, were divided between Yankee fans and Dodger fans, with a Giant fan here and there. I was in Little league, playing in East Northport, Larkfield area. I would say we were fans of our teams, but respected good ball players from both the National and American Leagues, and Little League stressed the importance of good sportsmanship. Those were good days, and the memories put a smile on this old man’s face just thinking about it.

Love the way you showed the Mets at the exact point where it said, "The new team hardly tries". Perfect sync.

@JustSomeDamnCalifornian45

5 жыл бұрын

The definition of them

@ComPavel

4 жыл бұрын

They tried, but not well! LGM!

@Kinseydsp

4 жыл бұрын

I still wear a Brooklyn Dodgers Baseball Cap

@rockvilleraven

2 жыл бұрын

@@Kinseydsp They did one on Griffith Stadium in DC and the Nationals were "the new team hardly tries".

@ballinbeast1

Жыл бұрын

When I see the old timers wearing Brooklyn dodgers hats at mets games ❤

I've talked with a man. Who lived in Brooklyn, NY. Until 1975. If time travel were possible. I would love go back and see a Dodger game. In Ebetts field. He still had tears in his eyes. Talking about those days. He said he was 15 when they moved to los angeles. When he got the news about the move. He said it felt like his heart was breaking. When I watch this video. I can almost feel the sadness.

@loushapiro1021

4 жыл бұрын

Me too

I was a bleacher bum at ebets field.. used to go there usually on Sundays for double headers.. miss, the sconce in right, snider in center, amoros in left, Robinson at third, pee-wee, at short, Gilliam at 2nd, hodges at 1st, and of course, campy behind the plate.. some great pitching to go along too... favorite pitchers, nucombe, Labine, and podres...

The Dodgers were the epicenter of Brooklyn. The Brooklyn Dodgers symbolized our country's melting pot. Everybody was enthralled by their quest to beat the buttoned up Yankees.Peewee Reese's arm around Jackie Robinson was an iconic moment for the civil rights movement When they left Brooklyn it broke Brooklyn's heart and baseball was diminished.Only Sinatra could articulate that

I wish I was around to see this Stadium,my grandmother used to always talk about it

Oh God, I miss my Dodgers. A trip to Ebbets Field to watch the Dodgers play was like going to the Super Bowl. Nothing like it in the world. 😢😢

Big Brooklyn Dodger fan here..... went to Ebbits Field often.

I was born in Brooklyn in 1948. I went to Ebbets Field. I have loved this song since the first time I heard it right after Sinatra recorded it. It always brings back joyful memories of a time gone by. My extended family bought some land in the 1940s in Ridge, a village of 300 people, 65 miles east of Brooklyn Bridge. They put up little houses. It was Paradise. We went there on weekends and in the summer. There was a clearing in the woods. The boys, we older cousins, played baseball there all day long. We called ourselves the Ridge Rhinos, and the field Rhino Field. On the 4th of July, we would play "the Men." They seemed so old. They were in their 50s and 40s and late 30s. Now, the Men and the Women have passed, and the older cousin are in our 70s. Our younger cousins, who were too young to play, remember the field and that something special and great happened on the 4th of July. Now, the family is spread all over the country and the field in the clearing is long gone, but the family continues - - - a beautiful Sicilian family - - - with beautiful memories that we pass onto the next generations. - - - Stefano

@teresadeterman4212

2 жыл бұрын

Cousin Stefano…….Thank you for bring back the memories!! It was a magical time and place. Love one of the younger cousins, Teresa Botta

This was lovely.

Just shows how NOTHING is forever. I'm sure the People in Brooklyn thought they would never leave. Probably never even occurred to them

Beautiful song, wonderful sentiment of a happy and simpler time could only sung by Sinatra. Born 1 year after the Dodgers and Giants moved away, lucky to have been born and raised in Da Bronx as a Yankee fan but surely would have love d the Dodgers and the Sym=phony,OIsk,Pee-Wee, Campy, Gil, Jackie,Newk,RoeDuke etc.

Wow Im a Dodger fan and live 2 hours away from Dodger Stadium but this video still gives me goosebumps and lump in my throat... if this isn’t nostalgia I dont know what is...

@martinredish8577

Жыл бұрын

L.A. stole my childhood from me. I hope you are happy with yourself.

@TheBatugan77

Жыл бұрын

​@@martinredish8577 Pretty sure he is.

This song was composed extremely well. Nelson Riddle was on his game and Frank hit every note

The Dodgers also played 15 home games in Jersey City during the 1956-1957 seasons.I was at the next to last game.

Ebbets Field was the more Legendary Ballpark never seen, I never knew this ballpark, because I born in 1957, but the story this Stadium is something fenomenal for me.

@markdemoreuille4451

7 жыл бұрын

Hector Espino me too I wish I could go back and see a game there

@espinoaguila

7 жыл бұрын

Yes, I agree with you, it would be intetresting, but that time is already gone.

I'll make this easy on everyone from that era. Old blue eyes was singing about all three ballparks - Ebbits Field, Polo Grounds and The House that Ruth Built.

That picture at the end of Podres and Zimmer gets me. I never saw either of them play but as coaches they were beloved by a new generation of fans.

@jas026able

5 жыл бұрын

Zimmer couldn't end the curse of the bambino, he failed. Think of his degeneration, from the Dodgers and the Red Sox to picking up a check with the Yankees? Traitor hardly covers his demise.

I am 80 years old and use to catch the Home runs on Bedford Ave. I was there twicw when the ball went through the Cadillac store window. Great memories.

Although I am a Giants fan I would have given anything to see games at Ebbets...great song, great ballpark, great fans, and a rich history...props to The Boys of Summer!

I had always thought this song was about Ebbets Field. But, according to Wikipedia: "composer Joe Raposo once told Larry King the song was about the Polo Grounds" I am 78, grew up in Brooklyn and remember when the Dodgers left. When I drove past that location in Brooklyn a few years ago I saw a sign there now for the Ebbets Field Housing Project reminding us that there used to be a ballpark there.

@johnhunter2294

Жыл бұрын

Once two reporters asked each other to write down the three most evil human beings in history. They both wrote the same three names; Hitler, Stalin, and Walter O'Malley.

@TheBatugan77

Жыл бұрын

The song is ubiquitous. The composer may have had the Polo Grounds in mind. But it applies quite well to any stadium that has faced the wrecking ball.

@mattdon2164

Жыл бұрын

Ironically, there is a sign on the wall that says “No Ball Playing”. Very sad.

This track is from the LP “‘Ol’ Blue Eyes Is Back” in 1973.

The music and the images did a good job of representing what a loss it was to lose the team to Los Angeles.

Sorry, No more Brooklyn dodgers. Thank Robert Moses for it.

@Narragansett55

6 жыл бұрын

Julius M actually I'll blame Whalebelly O'Malley. He was going to LA regardless of what Moses did. Don't believe the revisionist history.

@edwardbranca54

6 жыл бұрын

You probably are correct. The people who could afford baseball game tickets were leaving Brooklyn. Also, O'Malley knew that showing the Dodger games exclusively on pay TV. could make him a lot more $$$ than allowing the games to be viewed on free TV.

@kevinburke6055

4 жыл бұрын

Who cares?. We got the Mets

@chatman2a

4 жыл бұрын

Kevin Burke The Mets?! You, sir, have my sympathy.

@martinredish8577

Жыл бұрын

You let O'Malley off the hook much too easily!

Great upload, thanks! ...Great number by the greatest interpreter of a lyric in history!

AMERICA'S TEAM. GOD BLESS THE BUMS! :)

I was never in Ebbets Field but man what a ballpark it must have been I lived 50 from Detroit and as a kid went to Tiger Stadium which had the same end as Ebbets. I grew up with Tiger Stadium and I am sure as old Dodger fans miss Ebbets Field I too miss Tiger Stadium. Love how Sinatra sings this lament.

In the movie 42 we can see Ebbets Field in full color also part of the history of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

The song is, of course, wonderful, but so is the selection of photographs, both capture the spirit of a joyous reality that is sadly gone. I was there, it was real and it was so very good --- amid many tears, it lives, still with joy, in my memory.

@martinredish8577

Жыл бұрын

I know just what you mean.

I'm not crying... You're crying.

@markbowenagates1987

3 жыл бұрын

Well said!!!

@martinredish8577

Жыл бұрын

Yes, I am crying.

@MikeS29

8 ай бұрын

Damn right I am 😞

The Dodgers should have a alternate Brooklyn uniform

To attend one game there back in the late forties early fifties I’d give up a lot

I am so nostalgic for baseball and when I was a kid and adored the game throughout its greatest decade 2000-2010. I cry when hearing frank Sinatra; especially this song as well as "New York New York" Despite me moving on to football, the playoffs always awakens that old kid in me who just adored baseball and the rivalries not to mention my beloved Cubs & White Sox. I miss so much about baseball. I'm going to silently cry and reminisce over a song like "There Used to Be a Ballpark Right here" about a time that although I was never a part of, speaks for me in terms of the baseball past that I left behind. Go White Sox, Go Cubs, go Yankees & Red Sox rivalries. Etc

@JamesSmith-si7ts

2 жыл бұрын

Shut up

@williamoakes8085

2 жыл бұрын

Greatest decade????? Are you kidding me?

The Chairman of the Board gave this song his greatest “saloon” singer treatment. It’s one of the saddest songs ever written about one of the most heartbreaking lost loves of them all-The Dodgers & The Giants abandoning The City of NY. Make no mistake, the Dodgers & Giants were stolen from New York by two of the greediest, most morally bankrupt people of the 20th century-Horace Stoneham and Walter O’Malley. The only good thing ever written about either of them is that when Pete Hamill told his dear old father that O’Malley was finally dead, Pete’s father responded with “Good, now let’s dig him up so that we can kill him again”.

Man, as a Yankee fan. My heart cries for all you Oakland A’s fans!

He was not singing about the Polo Grounds. Sinatra said himself. The song was in remembrance of Ebbitts field.

@913KCED

6 жыл бұрын

The guy who actually WROTE the song told Larry King that it was about the Polo Grounds.

Even though I have lived in Texas all my life. I have talked. to a few people who lived in Brooklyn in the 50's. How the players lived in the neighborhood. How they felt about their neighbors. It's heart warming. Pro athletes aren't like that anymore. The folks who lived there were blessed. Am I correct Lou?

I used to own an Ebbets Field seat.

@APMUMBP

5 сағат бұрын

How did you get it if you don’t mind me asking. Had always wanted to get one. I know you posted this msg 5 years ago.

There used to be a ballpark right here!!!

A ton of great memories.

2:33 Got to love the jab at the Mets

The one and only, Frank Sinatra. One of the very few instantly recognizable voices.

There used to be a smoking room in Spring Valley Rest Home. (But now there isn't anymore.)

@jas026able

5 жыл бұрын

Bring back the Smoking Room, get Bloomberg to fund the renovation

This is so touching I remember everyone I love and there all gone and every place is gone or changed. Life's cycle

Fantastic!

Caught a Dixie Walker foul ball in the mid 40s

@APMUMBP

5 сағат бұрын

Do you still have it?

This song was written about the Polo Grounds, not Ebbets Field. And Sinatra was a Giant fan.

@rspister

5 жыл бұрын

But Nancy took over his Dodger season tickets.

I know I’m a few days late but I had to come here after I heard that Carl Erskine passed away recently. That leaves Sandy Koufax as the last of the Boys of Summer.

@danbratten3103

3 ай бұрын

Technically, Koufax wasn't one of The Boys of Summer. He is mentioned on 4 pages of the book, but was not one of the main subjects. Also he wasn't part of the earlier losses that the Boys of Summer were together for. Although, being a Brooklyn native, he experienced it in a different way. With Carl's passing there are now only 5 players left who played for the Brooklyn Dodgers: Bob Aspromonte, born June 19, 1938 Tommy Brown, born December 6, 1927 Jim Gentile, born June 3, 1934 Fred Kipp, born October 1, 1931 Sandy Koufax, born December 30, 1935 RIP Carl.😔

@ApbaBrian you will have interest in this. Frank Sinatranatra singing "There used to be a Ballpark" with stills of Ebett Field & some of its occupants.

Well if anyone is interested there are full Brooklyn Dodger games on KZread such as games 6 & 7 of the 1952 WS between them & the Yankees. I watched part of game 7 a few days ago & was in awe that I was finally seeing Jackie Robinson, Duke Snider, Roy Campenella & the rest of those guys play.

@RichardWerbin

3 жыл бұрын

Duke Snider. Not Snyder.

@briantbethea

3 жыл бұрын

@@RichardWerbin thanks. Updated

Athletics and rays fans will feel the same soon

2:37 1962 METS

I don’t get why Frank was so broken up over it. All they did was sell out and move to the other side of the country just like he did.

Great!

"Sometimes memories sneak out of my eyes and roll down my cheeks."(unknown).

@martinredish8577

Жыл бұрын

Any relation to Brandon? He plays like a throwback to those days. So glad he is still with the Mets.

@jeannenimmo5

Жыл бұрын

@@martinredish8577 Not to our knowledge, but certainly not impossible. He hails from a different part of the country.

It would be sick if they used it as the NYY stadium

I was hoping when the Dodgers were for sale. They would move back to Brooklyn. The fans were the greatest. I'm from Texas. But I feel the Dodgers belong in Brooklyn. I was born in 1959. But I still feel the heartbreak. That Walter O'Malley put on these loyal, wonderful, fans. I've seen films on how things were then. And it always makes me sad. I hope the Dodgers will return to Brooklyn some day. Those people deserve a ball team.

@2me4my5

6 жыл бұрын

The Dodgers are part of my DNA. My Dad used to listed to Red Barber on the radio and I've followed the Dodgers since the 50s. My Dad moved with the Dodgers to LA and cheered them in the Coliseum and beyond. Even so, I have always hoped that they would move back to Brooklyn. . Not any more. . Today, Brooklyn is gone. It became a hotbed of Liberalism (which Jackie and Campy hated), a center for USA-hating tyrants like Hillary Clinton (Captain America notwithstanding), and a Democratic Plantation of Poverty-by-design. Worse, it is quickly becoming a Mohammedan den of Anti-American rabies. twitter.com/joniturnerlaw/status/909218815292186626. Los Angeles is no Paradise. Politically, it is everything that Vin Scully and the Boys of Summer abhorred. But it is still better, and more accepting of Baseball, than Brooklyn. The nostalgia about Brooklyn is at once beautiful and painful. And, UNFORTUNATELY, it is best to leave it where it is: In memoriam.

@sjdrifter72

3 жыл бұрын

Blame Robert Moses, who wouldn't allow Walter O'Malley to build a new stadium in Brooklyn and instead wanted the Dodgers to play in Queens where Shea Stadium was later built. O'Malley had no choice but to move the team.

@paulazmudzinski9225

Жыл бұрын

When the O'Malley's put the team up for sale, Roger Kahn and others tried to put together a consortium to buy the team and move it back to Brooklyn, and they damn well came close to doing just that. -mikenotpaula.

Noticing Gil Hodges arms They weren't big at all BUT he could hit the HR'S

My dad is huge part as to why I love my Yankees

Well done

One of the saddest songs ever

Rip vin scully

I love them Bums

@thememo9941

5 жыл бұрын

DEM Bums

this is how i feel about civic stadium being turned into a soccer only venue. it was the home of our portland mavericks,beavers,rockies;and now just the frickin timbers.

Bring them both back

😥. I would feel the same way if the Buffalo Bills left Buffalo

hell nothings as good as it used to be.................

Was Frank a Yankees or Dodgers fan?

@jamesanthony5681

Ай бұрын

His good buddy was Leo Durocher, so I'm guessing Dodgers.

I think it was the time period also. 1957 was nearly the close of the 50's. End of the age of innosence. When the 60's came things started going to hell. Been a load of crap. Every year since. There's no more romance. No clean fun. The music sucks. And people are mean, now. And you can't go one, day. Without some tv evangelist. Or some idiot that thinks he or she wrote the Bible. Spewing doom about the end of the world. Yes, the video makes me sad too.

@gfoot9916

5 жыл бұрын

thebigbobert59 I’m not saying that the brutal 60’s were great with its assassinations but The 1950s were pretty shit in itself. Poverty was at an all-time high. We only like to remember the good things about certain eras but forget the bad things.

@HelloThere-fc5ll

5 жыл бұрын

@@gfoot9916 poverty was nowhere near an all time high in the 50s, that would have been the 30s

an musik ist wunderbar HEINRICH VON BERAZATEGUI AGENTINIEN

Sorry, Oakland.

DODGERS!! WOLRD SERIES CHAMPS 2017!!!

@stevencruz3977

6 жыл бұрын

sorry but the team from Houston took the series as they use to say in Brooklyn wait till next year.

@mayhem6282

6 жыл бұрын

Buzzzzzz!.... WRONG!

@ziggymorris8760

6 жыл бұрын

Adrian Busso how did that turn out for you? lol

You do realize he was singing about the Polo grounds right?

@913KCED

6 жыл бұрын

Yes, but it could be about any ballpark that's been torn down. It's a universally elegaic song.

@rspister

5 жыл бұрын

You do realize this song is set to videos about other mlb ballparks on KZread?

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