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Leading Off
Cleaning Up
Timeless Trivia
Ebbets Field oddities to remember:
★ The right-field scoreboard/wall had 289 different angles, a concrete bottom, metal scoreboard, wire screen, and jutted in and out at various angles. Carl Furillo had coaches hit balls off the wall so he could learn all the angles.
★ The left-field foul line was ON the low retaining wall behind visitors bullpen.
★ Before the Schaefer Beer signed up in 1949 (for the last nine seasons at Ebbets), its ad space was used for War Bonds, Consolidated Edison, and an appliance store.
★ The famous Abe Stark sign [HIT SIGN, WIN SUIT] went up before World War 2; Woody English of Cubs won 2 suits in 1 game.
★ The famous rotunda, copied by CitiField in Flushing, had a bat-and-ball chandelier hanging from its ceiling.
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