tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49010490397838489002011-04-21T16:58:26.384-07:00David Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06835102645342074504noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4901049039783848900.post-20759594082798235612007-04-06T14:07:00.000-07:002007-04-06T15:38:06.255-07:00<span stylhttp://www2.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gife="font-weight:bold;">THIS JUST CAN'T HAPPEN.</span><br /><br />Please help us by bringing awareness to this story. My friend and college Rob Gaeta (Big Baseball Fan) and General Manager of a soon to open <a href="http://hotellebleu.com">Hotel Le Bleu in Brooklyn New York</a> told me this story and I got so mad and could not believe that this relic of Ebbets Field is not on the National Registry For Historic Places.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br />WE MUST TAKE ACTION ANYONE COULD TAKE IT DOWN.</span><br /><br />Rob tells me that when they selected the location for the <a href="http://hotellebleu.com">Hotel Le Bleu in Brooklyn</a> that he was told to look across the street. The man told him that was where Ebbets Field once was. Rob, being a big baseball fan was out of his mind. Then the man said, see that wall over by the Con Edison Truck Depot, that is about 20-foot-high, over there by the loading doc. Rob said yes. That is all that remains of Ebbets Field.<br /><br />My friend Rob was out of his mind that this wasn’t on the Registry. Rob gave me two links<br /><br />The New York Times Barry Petchesky Published February 10th, 2007<br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/10/sports/baseball/10brooklyn.html?ex=1328850000&en=ae5006914592969f&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink">“Stoic Link to Basball History Stands Gard”</a><br /><br />Tom Simon and Keith Olbermann<br /><a href="http://www.sabr.org/sabr.cfm?a=cms,c,705">“Society For American Baseball Research”</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">WHAT CAN YOU DO? LET UNLEASH A LITTLE HOME GROWN WEB 2.0 .. WE CAN DO THIS.</span><br /><br />Post a comment below and help us save the wall.<br /><br />If you live in Brooklyn contact local and state representatives and ask for their help. Get a hold of Hillary for god sake this will help her popularly with baseball fans.<br /><br />If you know anyone close to the Dodger Organization please have him or her post a comment and call local and state wide representatives.<br /><br />Write letters to Major League Baseball. <a href="http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/history/mlb_history_people.jsp?story=com_bio_9">Allan H. “Bug” Selig</a><br />245 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10167 (212)-931-7700<br /><br />HELP US BUG!! SAVE THIS PART OF HISTORY FOR THE FANS OF BASEBALL AND OUR FUTURE FANS.<br /><br />SAVE THE LAST STANDING WALL OF EBBITS FIELD. RIGHT NOW CON ED COULD DISTROY IT.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4901049039783848900-2075959408279823561?l=savedodgerhistory.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>David Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06835102645342074504noreply@blogger.com0