Latino Baseball Hall of Fame:
I originally came across this article through VinSculleyIsMyHomeboy regarding the Latino Baseball Hall of Fame and this year’s inductions. The Latino Baseball Hall of Fame is located in the Dominican Republic. The original article from MLB.com is a concise concatenate of Latino Baseball Heroes and speaks to the inspiration behind the creation of their Hall of Fame. I sincerely hope to visit one day. You can read that great article HERE.
Off the top of my head there are some names I would consider myself for induction into the Latino Hall of Fame that haven’t been so already. They are Ed Figueroa, Mario Soto, Benito Santiago and Vinny Castilla.
This is something I definitely want to delve deeper into. Look for a posting one day.
And if you remember last winter, I love me some Winter League Baseball. I’ll be covering the games again this season.
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Do You Remember Washington Park’s WALL?
You can read My Posting HERE about the WALL at 3rd Avenue and 3rd Street in Brooklyn and why it’s been a source of anxiety and concern among Brooklyn baseball fans and historians alike. The good news is, the effort is finally under way to restore and preserve (and protect) a peice of Brooklyn’s old Baseball history.
This article appeared in Tuesday’s NY Daily News.
I have been in contact with two persons at Con-Ed about the wall, and they have provided me with a few more names and numbers to contact. My question moving foward with their project is the issue of Historic Signage placed on or at the wall. I’ll keep you updated about that.
Across the street at the other of the two Washington Park locations, I’ve been having a semi-ongoing conversation with ”admin” of the park (to protect the innocent). The tid-bits of information I’ve learned regarding the Board’s apathy towards the preservation of Brooklyn’s historic Baseball past is disturbing. However, I was told better sense is around the corner. They are finally getting around to addressing the proper respect this park should be recieving regarding it’s history as former home to the Brooklyn Dodgers. I speak with respect to the field where the Vintage Games I photographed were played.
The Board’s priorities always favored the history involving George Washington and this being a HQ for him during the Battle of Brooklyn and promoting that aspect of the park. Baseball it was feared would over shadow that. But there are more friendlies in administration these days and the park’s past will be revisited.
Likewise, stay tuned for more developments.
The section of wall in the background
is the section of wall to be preserved
These pictures depict Federal League activities.
the Brooklyn TipTops are in white.
1914-1915
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FREDDIE SEZ: Be Well.
It’s been a tough year in the Yankee Family.
Now, the beloved crowd favorite and ultimate Yankee Rooter,
“Freddie Sez”
FRED SCHUMAN
1924-2010
Has passed away at the age of eighty-five.
I’m honored to have met and spoken with Freddie Sez.
Above all it’s been my distinct pleasure to have
“tapped-tapped-tapped Freddie’s pan”.
If you never met him inside or outside Yankee Stadium
and tapped on the pan for luck,
you’ve never truly been to Yankee Stadium then.
You will be dearly missed by all NYC.
Click the article to enlarge.
These are pictures I took of Freddie over the years.
Be Well My Friend.
The curtain will also fall on this Classic in-between-innings Act:
It was a good run Boyz! Good Job.
A bunch of dummies in the bleachers
and one YouTube video ruined it for everybody.
You’ll have to find the story elsewhere.
OCTOBER 22, 2010
Autumn
BASEBALL
2010
American League
CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES
* * * * *GAME 6* * * * *
New York
YANKEES
VS.
Texas
RANGERS
The Ballpark at Arlington, Texas
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Baseball in October; There’s nuthin’ like it!
Pre-Game Thoughts:
Phil Hughes will try to pitch the Yankees into a Game Seven do or die. As we know he was not effective his last time out. Aside from Andy Pettitte, all pitchers are available for relief duty tonight. The Yankees must sell-out tonight for there to be a tomorrow. CC Sabathia is said to be available for up to 50 pitches should the situation need. A seven out save from MO would not be out of the question.
Hughes the righty, and Posada behind the plate tonight mean one thing; the Rangers are going to run like drunk politicians.
Yankee fans have been cringing at the sight of Posada’s defensive lapses lately. Tonight he needs to buckle down and be Posada; one of the team leaders. As many times as we’ve seen the back of his jersey for chasing down a passed ball or wild pitch, Jorge gets clutch hits ~ flat out! What he lacks behind the dish Jorge corrects when he steps up to that same dish. There is a lot of pride and passion in the Yankee back-stop. It’s always had a way of surfacing and influencing big games.
Jorge Posada will never get the true credit for being, in a most literal sense, the Yankees Back Bone. Jorge has always been willing to stick his neck out for his team mates, when so many of them over the last 9 years have not. He was always willing to do what needed to be done when so many wouldn’t, even if it meant going against the “Yankee Way”. Who else, I ask you? Who? – …took it upon himself to send an occasional message to the American League, Don’t Mistake Our Kindness For Our Weakness! I defy you to compile that list for me. Jorge always had his team mates backs! So many would never step their play up and bring to the game what, at times, the situation dictated.
Casey Stengel used to say of Yogi Berra, “I never play without my Guy”. Whether Yogi was behind the dish, left field or first base, Casey always played with his Guy. The Yankees more than ever are reliant on their GUY! ~ Jorge Posada.
He gets knocked, disrespected, barreled over, nicked and under appreciated for all of it. Pitchers and their issues are no less guilty towards contributing to Jorge’s defensive phenomena. But I will tell you those same pitchers love him when he connects in clutch moments.
WHO’S Knocking Jorge Then? You know who you are!! And I’m Not Even A Yankee Friendly!! I’m talking to you “select” Yankee fans. You know who you are.
Whatever shenanigans that have transpired whether this guy catches that pitcher and that pitcher can’t pitch to Jorge nonsense, know that Jorge is STILL the fiery soul of this team. The pervasive and relentless passion on this team has always come from Jorge.
Hip HIP….JORGE!!
ENJOY THE GAME.
Mike.BTB
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2010
NEW YORK PENN LEAGUE
McNAMARA DIVISION CHAMPS
BROOKLYN CYCLONES
2001 ~ 2003 ~ 2004 ~ 2007 ~ 2010
Our Baby Bums “doo’d it” again for the fifth time; We captured a division pennant. Now the Cyclones will set out to chase, and perhaps tie the Club’s record for most wins in a season. The record for most wins by the Cyclones was set by the original 2001 Cyclone team. That team fashioned a 52-24 mark on their way to a NYPL Championship. The 2010 Brooklyn Cyclones currently sport a 44-21 record.
Last night’s final was a 10-0 shutout road victory over the Connecticut Tigers. Yohan Almonte (BKN) pitched the league’s first complete game shut-out of the NYPL season, surrendering only 6 hits on the night. Almonte improved his season record to 8-4 and lowered his ERA to 2.00 with the effort. The Baby Bums will return to Coney Island for a Tuesday game versus Vermont. Including this Sunday afternoon’s game the Cyclones have eight games remaining on the schedule before the playoffs. As the team currently with the best record in the league, the Cyclones will face the Wild Card team in the first round of playoffs.
I will be at the game Tuesday night to welcome our Boyz back, congratulate them Lil Bumz for the division pennant and root them on to another regular season victory against the
Vermont Lake Monsters.
The Cyclones have been an offensive juggernaut this season in terms of NYPL expected production levels. Brooklyn has ridden a Core of Five that Drive this team. Wally Backman has showed no hesitation using a set line-up and riding it. That is a debatable strategy when organizational development is called into to question. But the fact is, this is Brooklyn and the fan base demands just a little bit more from this team, than do perhaps our competition and their towns; to include Staten Island.. It’s a little bit of a delicate balance the team and the parent club have to balance. But this team showed some very early promise and as they progressed through the schedule they showed no signs of slowing down. I’d offer when a baseball team shows early indications of something special, and nothing transpires to blur that vision, you ride the wave.
The Brooklyn Cyclones have ridden that wave since the second week of the season all the way to the famous seashores off Coney Island and a post season birth in what’s proving to be one of the club’s finest seasons ever.
Darrell CECILIANI has been by far this team’s MVP if you’re asking me. Maybe by the time I go through a little synopsis of the Five that Drive you’ll debate me. That’s all good.
Darrell Ceciliani is hitting .351 after 65 games played in 262 at-bats with 92 hits. He has 54 runs scored; 18 doubles; 11 triples; 34 RBI and 138 Total Bases while getting things started for the Cyclones at the top of the line-up.
In last night’s game the Cyclones tied their club record for most home runs in a season set, again, by the original 2001 team. There are three primary reasons for that;
Cory Vaughn (Greg Vaughn’s), Rylan Sandoval and Jeff Flagg.
*Cory Vaughn ~ .305 batting avg. ~ 63 games, 236 at-bats ~ 39 runs ~
12 HOME RUNS ~ 46 RBI
*Rylan Sandoval ~ *.330 batting avg. ~ 47 games
9 HOME RUNS ~ 29 RBI
*Jeff Flagg ~ .258 batting avg. ~ 65 games
8 HOME RUNS ~ 45 RBI
The fifth player deserved of mention as part of my self-described
“the Five that Drive” this team is infielder Joe Bonfe.
.322 batting avg. ~ 63 games ~ 33 runs ~ 13 doubles
4 home runs ~ 27 RBI
This has been a very dominant buncha Baby Bumz.
The league standings and statistic boards prove that out.
In my next Cyclone’s post I’ll review the pitchers who had a special season in their own right.
Wally Backman has benefited from the parent organization getting most of their amateur players signed after the draft and in uniform in time for the start of the 2010 A Class-Short Season. Wally has handled the players smartly, comported himself with professionalism, respect for the game and Brooklyn, and delivered fine baseball to the Borough of Kings.
This team is not a low-level minor league off the highway operation in my view. This team is a very BIG deal to me and a MAJOR part of my life now as it has been since day one. I watched everyday, girder by steal beam, as the home of my future Baby Bumz was being built. I was in attendance for their first game. I’ve experienced highs and lows with this team that rival the emotions I have for the Mets and MLB as a whole. I plan summer around my Cyclones tickets purchase every year and work everything else around that. What does that tell you?
I LOVE THIS TEAM!
My all-time ManCrush!
Picture if you will ~ Friday evenings, mid-summer, a Nathan’s Hot Dog, Baseball, home town team, fireworks night, lemonade, a cool ocean breeze coming of the beach at Coney Island, neighborhood friends, old Brooklyn Dodger fans, new young Cyclones fans, a stroll on the boardwalk after a victory, taking a ride on NYC LandMarks ~ Cyclone Rollercoaster or the Wonder Wheel, then a ten minute drive home with no traffic. What’s better than that?
A relic of Coney Island’s glorious past….
…and an instance where the past came alive again with Coney Island’s
new LUNA PARK. Luna Park was one of the four original main parks
comprising Coney Island in it’s famed heyday of 100 years ago and like the others,
burnt down multiple times, and after the last time, never restored again.
The new Luna Park replaces the AstroLand lot and is directly across the street from it’s original home.
This is just but a small taste of what we lost with the closing of
ASTROLAND PARK
..A cool little train ride through Hell. Yippeee!
But after some…
and a few…
…we all learn how to keep marching forward….
Just like these two guys who used to hang out in Brooklyn once..
Pee Wee Reese and Jackie Robinson
..From Coney Island,
Let’s Go Cyclones!!!
Mike.BTB
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Brooklyn; BTB - Hot Pastrami, Baseball and…Peace?
Do you need mood management? ..An attitude adjustment? ..A reality check? Or do you just need to learn how to play and get along better with others? What ever your social dysfunctions or the civic diseases afflicting you, come to Brooklyn. We’ll fix it. We have 2.5 million qualified attitude adjusters with experience in diagnosing and treating your neighborly malfunctions. You got a problem? We’ll take a whack at it!
Brooklyn IS the most diverse place in this great country of ours. I dare say it is the most diverse 70 square miles on the planet. So if anyone can add something constructive to the Tolerance Debate, it’s us.
We live it.
That’s right. You want to bring peace to groups that have been in conflict for my entire lifetime and longer? Bring ‘em to Brooklyn.
Unrest, distress, mistrust and violence in the Middle East have been among the longest continuous memory-streams of my lifetime; as long as my stream of consciousness for Baseball is. And violence over what? Both sides have made their case. There are valid questions and complicated answers. That is not for this post. But the following blog entry is proof, Peace, is not out of the question.
So what does it take? Hot Pastrami! …And Baseball! …And a Brooklyn frame of mind.
Climb aboard the Tolley folks; 1930′s here we come.
That’s when Esther and Paul ADELMAN opened their original Kosher Deli in the predominantly Jewish neighborhood of Boro Park, B’klyn. The deli was sold and subsequently closed by 1981. While Esther and Paul were still owners they had an employee, an Italian gentleman named Anthony Papeo. Anthony entered into a partnership and in 1979 opened up a second ADELMAN’s Kosher Deli on King’s Highway in the Midwood section of Brooklyn, which is also a predominantly Jewish neighborhood adjoining Boro Park. By 1986 Anthony was the sole owner of Adelman’s. In 1986, Anthony hired a new employee; Mohamed Salem who was an immigrant Muslim from Egypt. Twenty years later in 2006, Mohamed Salem became owner of ADELMAN’s Kosher Deli and Restaurant.
The Brooklyn Dodgers are alive and well in Adelman’s; like all the other places I’ve taken you to.
That team is still here and very real to us. If you come here looking for them,
you’re not going to find ‘em.
You wouldn’t know how to detect it. But when you learn how to tap into it, it’s marvelous how the team surrounds us. Do you want to know why the old NY Giants
don’t get as much speak around this town?
Simple…They weren’t from this side of the East River.
You know I always like to incorporate different parts of Brooklyn on these Trolley Rides.
As the extra add-on I thought I’d take you to a little sleepy water front neighborhood
on the south side called
RED HOOK.
Just speaking to the daily adventures of completing a typical day in the big city, one of the biggest assets one can have here in Gotham is no doubt a solid core of friends and a good network of contacts. But if you truly want piece of mind in this big city, happiness comes with having good neighbors. Neighbors are everything here. If you have bad neighbors, your neighborhood existence can be a rather aggravating one. At it’s most annoying it creates a condition of no rest for the wiry. If you have good, solid, considerate, community minded neighbors, this urban jungle can be paradise.
Me? I have great neighbors. I know not everyone can say that. But my ties to the neighborhood make my little piece of Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, like an extended family. Through childhood and growing up, to those who presently live on my block; - the parents I came to know while our children were in school and all the kids around the neighborhood that I was Baseball Coach to over the years with some now in their early twenties still yelling ”S’up COACH” when I walk the neighborhood; - It’s Sweet!
It’s not just about those personal relationships you develop over years. Not to make light, but it’s about the Butcher, the Baker and the Candlestick Maker also. It’s about where I buy my newspaper everyday; where I grab a coffee in the morning; my loyalties to my dry cleaners and grocery store. It’s about the encounters I’ve had with my new friends at Dee SteakHouse and Junior’s Cafe and the warm neighborly treatment I received from them.
I made a request from another neighbor of mine located very close to home for permission to photograph their impressive baseball display. One of the biggest anchor stores of the neighborhood came through for us in a really big way. Before we head over there I thought we’d stop for some REAL pizza. I don’t know what you good folks around the country qualify as pizza, but I’m gonna take you to another good neighbor of mine where we’re gonna get the real deal. Bring some spending cash because after having the BEST pizza in Brooklyn we’re going to gear-up with all our favorite team jersey(s), caps and t-shirts in preparation for Opening Day. Then we’re gonna walk off that lunch while we parade all our new shirts, caps, jerseys and fan gear on the Shore Parkway Promenade. Today’s ride is local; very local. You know the routine folks…..Time to Jump-the-Trolley. You’re coming to my side of town today. You’re Trolley Ridin’ through Bensonhurst.
LA CASA BELLA Ristorante and Gourmet Pizzeria
This is the TROLLEYBLOGGER’s favorite pizza in Brooklyn. Nuf Ced!
They’ve been letting me order off-menu combinations (and of course on-menu) for over 17 years now and I love them for it! There’s something that makes food taste better when you know who is doin the cookin! My vocabulary is inadequate in trying to explain how good I think their food really is. They strike the perfect balance between fine dining and still serving as a traditional pizzeria. Wine, espresso, soda or an iced tea..- It’s all being served with amazing class here. I plan on being a customer for another 20 years…at least.
This is when I met Jaime. I introduced myself. We shook as he reciprocated kindly. I told him who I was, what I was up to and that I respectfully requested permission to photograph the collection. As patient as he was hearing me out, ultimately he had to deny my request as a matter of policy (my words).
I understood 100%. He also confirmed what I suspected the whole time, that I wasn’t the first one to make such a request. Sure…, I could tell you how deflated I was feeling.
I’m just not sure how much of my deflation was showing on the outside. So? So What?
After a slight pause I deduced it was time to go home. I thanked Jaime very much for his time and patience and started making my way to the exit. It could have all ended then. But it didn’t.
Like I said, Jaime could have ended my pursuit right then. Instead, he offered me help. This is what I’m thinking, – Jaime said I was just one of a number to make such a request so he’s been through this before. If what I’m thinking is true or even if it’s just self-imagined, Jaime is the true unsung hero of this post. Jaime, your discretion and role in this will not go under appreciated.
He offered a number to call in the company’s main office to see if I could get anywhere with them. I asked if people have requested the number to ask in the past. He said yes. I asked if anyone ever received permission before. He said he didn’t believe anyone really ever followed through, so the short answer was No.
REALLY?!?
Trolley Power restored.
You’d have to ask Jaime, but I’m sure I lit up like a Christmas Tree.
Having said all that, it’s time to go to MODELL’S.
MODELL’s SPORTING GOODS
founded 1889
by Morris Modell
This stop on the Bensonhurst Local: Modell’s Bay Parkway location in Brooklyn.
While you shop yourselves silly I want to thank Rich again for letting me photograph this Brooklyn Dodgers collection and by doing so, showing everyone again how the Brooklyn Dodgers are still alive and well. If we keep them on our minds and in our hearts, they’ll live forever.
Back in December ’09, one of my initial posts of this newborn blog was a little trip back to the present day site of Ebbets Field. It was a simple post with a picture of the stone marker signifying the site of Ebbets and the street sign of Bedford Ave, alternatenly named Gil Hodges Way. That post received one comment. I was very new in the BloggerHood; very new. I was happy. It was a step forward. A couple of posts followed I’m sure with me complaining about the Wilpons or the Mets in general. Then I wrote the following quick post in what was to become (unofficially) ”our” second TrolleyRide through the Hood. Here is that post which is fairly brief, about the Brooklyn Dodgers. But what made it different from just about any other post or Trolley Ride I’ve taken you on, I for the first time and maybe the last time, openly expressed my hate (hate? hate is strong.)…my hate for the Los Angeles Dodgers. But I’m not one of those clouded cats. I’m just a baseball fan above all else and to be quite honest, there’s nothing like taking in Vin Scully starting at 10:30pm my time to end my nights. Take a quick peek because today’s post has everything to do with my commentor, not me…
I salivated like Pavlov’s dog when I saw it, and in jest said I had to have one.
Today when I arrived home and checked my mail box, I received this item
and hurried myself to settle in for the evening.
Upon opening it, this is what I found inside:
C’mon!…This is cause for celebration. Everyone, I know this is a little unexpected…but,
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The debate has always centered whether or not that wall existed when the Dodgers played there. That would have to have the wall in place in 1912 or before. If it is indeed proven this wall was in place prior to the Dodgers moving to Ebbets, obviously it raises concerns about it’s preservation. A few years back, the present owner of the lot, Con-Edison, raised eyebrows when they announced plans to demolish the wall. Brooklyn baseball fans freaked out and Con-Ed has since been committed to it’s preservation. Naturally, I have the same interest level whether this wall can be dated to the Dodgers as any other
Brooklyn Dodger enthusiast.
But the wall is preservation worthy regardless as it was home to Brooklyn’s Federal League team; the Brook-Feds, or as they became more commonly refered to as the Tip Tops.
The owner of the team was owner of the Brooklyn Tip Top Bread Company.
If you didn’t know, and I assume you do,
This is what the Brooklyn Tip Tops looked like. I took this picture at Yankee Stadium in 2008 when I spotted this guy wearing a Tip Top Jersey. I asked him if I could snap a pic of it. I’ve never seen anyone with one before. I’m not making insinuations about the guy but he didn’t realize what the jersey represented. He thought it was another Dodger jersey. I informed him otherwise.
See, there ya go folks. It’s just not me. Where all kinda nuts for this place.
I’ll have you know, my reservation is in for next weekend for a nice dinner with my wife for my B-day. I can’t wait till she sees the place. My wife of twenty years is a Manhattan girl and is still learning her way around Brooklyn. Sheesh! I’m looking foward to the evening out and spending part of it at Dee’s SteakHouse.
Here are a few photos of all Brooklyn themed movies, and the view from the other end of his Wall of Fame.
Post Script:
I’ll have you know, Joe made quick mention during our conversations about one:
Me being a Red Sox Rooter and I believe he called me the “Yankee Rouser or Rouster” (foregive me).
Two: He also brought up my arch nemesis Fred Wilpon, owner of the N.Y. Mets, of which I am a fan. I had mentioned him in jest last time I was here about not being on the wall, but Joe seemed more interested in actually getting him on the wall. I hope Fred appreciates that! I put him through hell.
My point is, pay attention to detail folks. If you take care of the little details in life the larger problems will take care of themselves. Joe was prepared with details about me on a chance AND second encounter.
Sharp as a tack!…and that’s what you’re ‘gonna’ get here. He read up on me. I tip my Brooklyn Dodger cap to you Sir!
My sincerest gratitude, Mike, BrooklynTrolleyBlogger
I’ve been in contact with some pretty exceptional people these last two months. But before I get on with this post and namely a gentleman named Hasting, who is truely responsible for making today’s post possible, I want to share with you two things I learned at very different times in my life, but which I live by today.
First – Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained.
Second – The worst question you could ever ask is the one you don’t (ask).
If you take those two things into consideration, add the notion I believe you can say anything to anyone as long as you excersize Tact, you now know three more things about me.
Hasting, is our V.I.P. guest today Trolley Riders. He is the latest reason reaffirming everything I love about living here. I honestly don’t have a pitch prepared for unsuspecting people I approach. I’m just trying to be as straight to the point as I can and get them to understand I have nothing but good intentions. Has it been weird? No…not at all. Talking with the people in your neighborhood is a practice in civility and respect. Do it well and you will be treated in kind.
My new friend Hasting, is the Manager of a Brooklyn Icon, an institution famous for their specialty, aside from everything great they do, the world over. Hasting and I just met. He said we are all welcome, like so many famous people who’ve come here, to warm our bones after I take you on a grand tour. Because this Brooklyn Icon is such a special place, it deserves a proper undercard.
C’mon Neighbors….It’s Time to Jump The Trolley Again!! We’ll start at Grand Army Plaza, where they have a farmer’s street market going on. Grand Army Plaza is your classic traffic circle where monuments to the Union Soldiers of the Civil War stand. It is the Northern Entrance Gate to Prospect Park, and the Brooklyn Public Library’s Main Branch sits across the street. It’s where Prospect Park West, Eastern Parkway and Flabush Avenue all come together. From Grand Army Plaza we’re heading north, straight up Flatbush Avenue into downtown, just blocks from the Manhattan Bridge, and meet up with our host for the day.
And this is the view looking straight down Flatbush Avenue. We are headed down there, deeper, in the middle of all that.
I’d like to revisit my encounter with Hasting Stainrod. Thank you very kindly for a most pleasurable experience. Your graciousness and hospitality sets the standard. Junior’s always was and always will continue to be one of my favorite places on Earth. Folks, they ship anywhere, and this is the cheesecake I eat. I will not buy anyone elses. Their’s just can not be beat!! Fuggedaboudit!!!
When I’m in my own neighborhood it really is inconveient to roll the TROLLEY around. The pigeons stopped getting out of our way and flying off years ago. People, drivers, random acts of run-away trash cans rolling down the block, and the ever care-free AND careless 12 year old kid on his bike channeling into his inner EVIL KNIEVEL jumping ramps from parts undetectable from my motorman’s compartment just make it too harrowing an experience sometimes. When I’m local, it just doesn’t pay. So..? I walked. Where? The Baseball Archeologist was hungry. I walked to a place right here in my neighborhood of BENSONHURST.
At 1687 86th Street off 17th Avenue, is one of my favorite order-out spots. I figured I could kill two chickens with one stone. Not only is this place one of the best chicken establishments in the area, they have pictures of EBBETS FIELD and old photos of Coney Island and greater Brooklyn adorning their walls too.
Coincidentally, just like at DeStefano’s SteakHouse, the gentleman I conversed with at “NOT JUST CHICKEN” was also John. He was gracious enough to let me take a couple of pictures of those on their wall.
Now it’s not like I went sifting through the dirt for this find. I already knew the spirit of the Brooklyn Dodgers ate here. If your imagination is good enough, there’s good ‘ol OISK in the corner feeding his face on some ribs and a side of HomeStyle Stuffing. Campy and Duke were looking over the Super Bowl menu and getting some ideas for the big party. Folks, some of Dem Bums lived in these neighborhoods with us. People still tell their stories. John, obviously younger than me, was none-the-less in touch with his Dodger heritage. If you know where to look, there’s evidence everywhere. The Baseball Archeologist will ride the TROLLEY high and low bringing you every find I make.
But today?…I just had to walk dude. Do you know I walked out of there without getting anything to eat? I was just happy with a new post in hand and forgot. I’m a regular customer though, I’ll just order twice next week.
OK everyone…Here are some pictures of Ebbets Field dated 1913. “Not Just Chicken” had an extensive Coney Island display, but I’m saving that for another day….(uh, summer?) What I will share about this one particular Coney pic – the tower was the Parachute Jump, the large structure in the foreground was STEEPLECHASE PARK. Steeplchase is the current site of Keyspan Park, the home of the Brooklyn Cyclones of the New York/Penn League. The Parachute Jump is a NYC Landmark today. It hasn’t been operational since the 60′s, but it’s none-the-less iconic to us. I included a recent pic of the boardwalk and Parachute Jump for reference. You’re going to have to wait a little longer before I starting hitting you with Brooklyn Cyclones Baseball talk.
Thank you again goes to, NOT JUST CHICKEN located at 1687 86th Street off 17th Avenue in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. It’s really good eatin’….Fuggedaboudit!! Thanks again John.
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