Brooklyn historian to revive Brooklyn Dodger memories
Brooklyn Borough Historian Ron Schweiger, a former president of the Brooklyn College Alumni Association and a past president of the Society of Old Brooklynites, will be the keynote speaker as the society commemorates its 142nd anniversary on Sunday at the Bay Ridge Manor — and the topic will be the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Schweiger, who owns a large collection of Brooklyn Dodger memorabilia, is the perfect authority to talk about the great Brooklyn Dodgers of yesteryear. In its best-known lineup, when the team won the World Series in 1955, it had such stellar Baseball Hall of Fame players as Jackie Robinson, Duke Snider, Pee Wee Reese, Roy Campanella, Sandy Koufax and Gil Hodges, who just recently was elected to the Hall.
Among the vintage materials he will be showing and discussing will be the original blueprints of Ebbets Field, the home of the Dodgers from 1913 until they left Brooklyn in 1957. Ebbets Field, of course, was the home of the Dodgers when the Brooklyn club won the Series in 1955.