Pair of Blue Folding Seats from Ebbets Field, home of the Brooklyn Dodgers

Iron frame and wooden slats, painted blue. 34 x 39 x 16 inches. Mounted on two wooden rails with brass plaque, engraved: Restored from Ebbets Field, home of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Some superficial traces of wear. Iron frame and wooden slats, painted blue. 34 x 39 x 16 inches. A pair of folding bleacher seats from Ebbets Field, home of the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1913 until their removal to Los Angeles in 1957. It was also the 1935 home of the Brooklyn Eagles, a National Negro League team that merged with the Newark Dodgers the following year to form the Newark Eagles. The stadium was built in the Pigtown neighborhood of Flatbush and opened for preseason play in 1913; it was demolished in 1960.

The Siwanoy Corporation sold these preserved stadium seats in 1998, in association with the Brooklyn Dodgers Baseball Hall of Fame (Marty Adler, President). Provenance: Ronald Terlizzi (set no. 142, purchased 1998)