The fabled Brooklyn Dodgers, still including some of the famous "Boys of Summer" - made famous by Roger Kahn's book of the same name - played the team's final game at Ebbets Field on September 24, 1957. Gil hodges played in that game, as did Pee Wee Reese and Roy Campanella. Jackie Robinson had retired a year earlier, and Duke Snider and Carl Furillo were injured. In 1958, the team was based in Los Angeles. Presented is an Ebbets Field metal folding chair. The chair could have been used as a box seat at Ebbets Field, as the ballpark used to combine four folding chairs as box seats, with the chairs set up inside rails, a common practice at the time. The folding chair could also have been employed in the dugout or bullpen, or in myriad ways over the years. It is not known over what span of years that the offered chair was used at Ebbets Field, a ballpark that offered Major League baseball from 1913-57, and was used for various events, including baseball exhibition games, stock car races, etc., until it was demolished in February 1960. 

A gold-colored metal plate, measuring 2.25x8", is fastened to the top backrest and reads, "EBBETS FIELD/HOME OF THE BROOKLYN DODGERS/1913-1957." The top of the chair has a width of 16" and a height of 31". The actual seated area of the chair, made with wooden slats, and the back rests are of metal. The seating area has a width of 13.25", and a depth of 14.25". The offering weighs 13 lbs. The chair is open, but it no longer folds shut. It is not known if the chair originally had wooden slats for the seating and backrest areas. It appears that the chair was restored, at least in part. The offering is painted blue. In small areas, the chair exhibits some flaking and chipping of paint, and some rough spots on the chair have been painted over. Despite the aforementioned minor defects, the chair has fine eye-appeal and presents well. The condition of the chair makes it easy for the mind's eye to visualize the offering as part of a vibrant, packed Ebbets Field crowd cheering on their Dodgers. You can no longer go to Ebbets Field, but, via the offered chair, a little bit Ebbets Field can come to you.