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Excellent feature on Washington Park in today's New York Times referencing
SABR, with quotes from members Marc Okkonen, Chris Epting and Tom Gilbert.


February 10, 2007

Stoic Link to Baseball History Stands Guard
By BARRY PETCHESKY

Once upon a time in Brooklyn, they used to play baseball here.

Tucked away among ancient factories and garages is a massive relic of the
Dodgers' old ballpark. Not Ebbets Field, but Washington Park, where Brooklyn
played before moving to Flatbush. It is believed to be the oldest standing
piece of a major league ballpark in the country. And almost nobody knows it
is there.

At the foot of Park Slope, a block from the Gowanus Canal, is a Con Edison
truck depot and storage facility bounded by First and Third Streets and
Third and Fourth Avenues. Running the length of Third Avenue is a
20-foot-high stone wall that makes up part of a loading dock. The high,
small windows of the wall have been bricked up.

From 1898 to 1912, Washington Park was the home of the team alternately
nicknamed the Bridegrooms, Superbas and Trolley Dodgers.


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Rod Nelson