February 1st, 2023 at 9:01 am 
by Ron Cervenka Long before ThinkBlueLA.com was an official blogsite, it was an interactive fan forum created in 2009 by our talented webmaster Scott Harvey.
Through that original fan forum, I came to know and become friends with a good many Dodgers fans from across the country and abroad. Among them is (now) 70-year-old lifelong Dodgers fan and New York native Will Isabella (aka: Truebluewill) who, thankfully, continues to follow us to this day.
On April 17, 2012 and with the assistance of (then) Dodgers Assistant PR Director Yvonne Carrasco (now Yvonne Carrasco Chalmé), we posted our first article on our brand new ThinkBlueLA.com website. Although Yvonne eventually left the Dodgers to begin working for Wasserman Media Group and later VaynerSports, I (we) will forever be grateful to her for her assistance, guidance, and friendship.
As for Will Isabella, he was born in Manhattan, NY in the very heart of (then) New York Giants territory. During a recent phone conversation with Will, he had this to say about his lifelong allegiance to the (then) Brooklyn Dodgers before both teams moved to the West Coast after the 1957 season:
“Being born in Manhattan, I should have been a Giants fan, Thankfully, my mother took me to Ebbets Field for my first game, and that started my lifelong love affair with the Dodgers. Imagine me as a Giants fan. It’s unthinkable!!!
Thirty-five years after the demolition of Ebbets Field, which began on February 23, 1960, Constance Baker Motley, a Federal Judge in the Southern District of New York (and an avid Brooklyn Dodgers fan), said that Dodgers owner Walter O’Malley‘s decision to relocate to Los Angeles from its historic home in Brooklyn was: “One of the most notorious abandonments in the history of sports.”
All that remains of Ebbets Field today it a plaque where home plate once was, commemorating Jackie Robinson breaking baseball’s color barrier, and a portion of the right field wall, where a good many of Hall of Famer Duke Snyder‘s 407 career home runs were hit.
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@Dodgers I loved reading this. Here’s to ThinkBlueLA and the Dodgers!
When I met with Yvonne at Dodger Stadium for the first time back in 2012 to try to get a media credential, she told me that they did not issue media credentials for forums, only websites. When I mentioned this to Scott, the very next day we launched ThinkBlueLA.com. The rest, as they say, is history.
TBLA never would have happened were it not for Yvonne’s encouragement and assistance.
Great post Ron. Is the portion of the right field wall in its original location?
I am too young to have experienced Ebbets Field. However, it was fun talking with many Brooklyn fans when I attended Spring Training at Vero Beach in the 1980s and 1990s. Those people had their hearts ripped out.
And, I have had the privilege of sitting in an actual seat from Ebbots Field when I became acquainted with a seat restorer in New Jersey.
I’m not sure if the wall is in its original location (I always thought it was) or if it had been moved. We’ll have to wait for TBW to check in with us to answer that.
Ron, the wall that we stood in front of for the picture is not thr original location of the right field wall. From the pictures I have seen the right field wall started at the edge of the sidewalk. The housing project wall is some 60 to 70 in from the Ebbets Field wall due to the parking lot which is there now. We were standing where Carl Furillo might have played a right handed “Punch and Judy” hitter. 🙂
Close enough.
OhioDodger are you Dick who grew up on Washington Ave. in Brooklyn near Ebbets Field? If so I thought you did see some games at Ebbets Field? I only went once back in 1957. I was almost 5 years old at the time. It was enough to get me hooked on the Dodgers.
No, that is not me. I became a Dodger fan in the mid sixties because of Koufax and Drysdale. I would have loved to have experienced the Brooklyn Dodgers in person and gone to Ebbets Field.
Gotta admit, I thought you were Dick Greenblatt as well. He also lives in Ohio. We met many years ago at LADABC in Vero. Totally my bad.
My grandfather a new immigrant to America loved baseball. He had every other home game season tickets to Ebbetts Field. My whole family was Brooklyn Dodger Fans.
My dad would take the tickets cut school sell the tickets for 2bucks and have money for 2bleacher seats, program,hotdogs,soda and probably had change. The stories I heard were incredible. They broke everyone’s heart when they moved. They were a way of life for many Brooklynites.
GREAT stuff, Steven! THANKS!!!
The other great stories were from Vero Beach. A great place for Dodger fans. Used to fly down to FL every March and take my parents to two spring training games. The players were so available for conversation. I met Jim Tracy, Jack Clark. Fernando, Vinnie yes Mr Skully, Rick Monday, Gagne. Got tons of autographs.