Ballpark
Ebbets Field
Brooklyn · 1913–1957 · config 1957
Favors hitters
(+0.1 runs for the away team)
Dimensions
LF 348′ · SLF 345′ · LFA 368′ · LC 368′ · LCC 398′ · CF 384′ · RCC 390′ · RC 352′ · RFA 352′ · SRF 315′ · RF 297′
Walls LF 10′ · LC 10′ · CF 10′ · RC 20′ · RF 38′
Short right; intimate bandbox
Tight foul ground
Capacity 31,902
Brooklyn bandbox. Crowds on top of you.
Overhead diagram
Photograph
About this park
Ebbets Field was Brooklyn in brick and steel — intimate stands, a right-field wall that invited conversation, and a crowd that sat close enough to judge every swing. It was not the biggest park in the league; it did not need to be. The diamond felt held, almost cupped, by the neighborhood.
Pitchers worked carefully to the pull side. Hitters who knew the caroms could turn the walls into partners. When the Dodgers left, the wrecking ball took the building, but the shape of the argument remains: a small big-league park where atmosphere and fence marks shared the same sentence.