This is how you end up spending a fall morning in Brooklyn, staring at a 26-story gravestone.
Despite a recently expanded postseason, New York did not field a playoff team for the first time in nine years. Since the Yankees’ most recent trip to the World Series, more than half of MLB teams have been to the Fall Classic. Following the Yankees’ worst season in 31 years, the most successful franchise in American sports will establish its longest drought without a pennant in more than a century.
You can miss what you never knew, if it evokes envy, anger and sorrow. The Golden Age of Baseball shines brightly in black-and-white film. It is described as if Gil Hodges had breakfast with you before leaving for the ballpark each day.Nostalgia knows to filter out the stretches of futility, the uncomfortable seats and cramped concourses. It leaves you with Willie, Mickey and The Duke, the Shot Heard ‘Round the World and a world that no longer exists.
Children’s laughter echoes from the Jackie Robinson School across McKeever Place. The noise of nearby construction of luxury high-rises rings out. Change is coming. It’s always en route. This parcel of land was once part of Pigtown. The farms are long gone. There is little more evidence of the most famous building in Brooklyn’s history.A small gray sign is embedded in the apartment building. “1962” — when the complex was built — is chiseled within an oversized baseball.
On Third Avenue — two miles from Ebbets Field — stands a 20-foot high stone wall, protecting a ConEd storage facility. Some say the Washington Park remnant dates back to the 19century. The Dodgers — once known as the Superbas, Bridegrooms, Trolley Dodgers and Robins — played in the 18,000-seat stadium from 1898 until leaving for Ebbets Field in 1913.
Hilltop Park has experienced a similar afterlife to Washington Park. Visitors follow historic footpaths for other reasons.Street and Broadway in Upper Manhattan for 95 years. In 1903, its grounds gave birth to the Yankees. On the final day of the season — in front of 28,854 fans — New York ace Jack Chesbro, who amassed an unbreakable record of 41 wins that season, gave up the pennant-clinching run on a ninth-inning spitball that sailed high for a wild pitch. The Boston Globe declared it “The greatest victory ever won in outdoor sport.”
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