Taking a swing at history

Construction worker – perhaps, in this case, destruction worker – Maxie Rosenfeld takes a sledgehammer 65 years ago today to the cornerstone of Brooklyn’s hallowed, albeit abandoned, Ebbets Field.

The cornerstone today

The beginning to the end of Ebbets Field comes less than three years after the Dodgers abandon Brooklyn for the riches of Los Angeles, leaving behind a legacy that begins in 1913 with Ebbets Field’s opening and ends in 1957 after the Dodgers play their last home game there.

The breaking of the cornerstone would help fund a souvenir auction from the ballpark.

The cornerstone, though, only gives up part of its past as a good portion of it remains today some 203 miles away at the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y.