After all, the Dodgers left Brooklyn in 1957, and Ebbets Field was demolished shortly thereafter.
Perhaps the mystery was appropriate: The creation of Ebbets Field was also veiled in secrecy.
The Mets' plan to model Citi Field after Ebbets Field jump-started Mr. Kennedy's plans.
Then he got his first break: Mr. Kennedy found Ebbets Field blueprints in the first batch of documents.
Ron Schweiger, Brooklyn's borough historian, grew up going to Dodger games at Ebbets Field and met Robinson several times.
Hoping to spark discussion about building an Ebbets Field replica, Mr. Kennedy began looking for the blueprints, but without success.
The team's once-revered Brooklyn base, Ebbets Field, is now built over, so a new stadium would have to be built.
And like any other aspect of the game, the April celebrations of Robinson and Ebbets Field bring their share of opportunities.
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To some, Citi Field was more of a tribute to Ebbets Field and Jackie Robinson than to the New York Mets.
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"It became a quest to find the Ebbets Field plans, " he said.
This week, media stories are out celebrating the 100th birthday of Ebbets Field, the legendary Brooklyn ballpark that opened in April of 1913.
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Besides the rotunda honoring the life and achievements of Jackie Robinson, the architecture and masonry of the ball park closely resembles Ebbets Field.
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And the man who built Ebbets Field started out as a ticket-taker at Washington Park, then worked his way up to control the team.
This will be the first postseason game in Brooklyn since Oct. 10, 1956, when the Dodgers lost Game 7 to the Yankees at Ebbets Field.
More than that, the stadium, in its architectural homage to Ebbets Field, underlined the omnipresence of Brooklyn, where Wilpon grew up, in everything that followed.
It was the first playoff victory in Brooklyn since 1956, when the Dodgers beat the Yankees in Game 6 of the World Series at long-gone Ebbets Field.
Top of the ninth, Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, the Brooklyn Dodgers one pitch away from tying the series at two games apiece against the hated New York Yankees.
On the way to the game he had told a story about taking his son, Chance, to visit the old neighborhood, including where Ebbets Field used to be.
Long before Ebbets Field existed, beginning in 1883, Brooklyn's baseball team played in Washington Park, which is better known as a Revolutionary War site for the Battle of Brooklyn.
Robinson debuted at Ebbets Field on April 15, 1947, going hitless in a 5-3 win over the Boston Braves but leading the sport into a new age in the process.
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Over the years, Giuliani has often spoken of his childhood in Brooklyn, giving special place to a story about the discordance of growing up a Yankees fan in the shadow of Ebbets Field.
May 22, 1946 Len Merullo of the Chicago Cubs and Dixie Walker of the Brooklyn Dodgers fight during batting practice at Ebbets Field after Merullo and Brooklyn's Pee Wee Reese start arguing.
The Nets wore their road black uniforms and fans were encouraged to wear black as well to make it a "blackout" for the first major postseason game in Brooklyn since Oct. 10, 1956, when the Yankees beat the Dodgers in Game 7 of the World Series at Ebbets Field.
Mr. Kennedy made it his mission to find the blueprints in the early 1990s after he stepped out of a subway near the Ebbets Field site at Bedford Avenue and Sullivan Place in Crown Heights and was astonished to see that there was no plaque marking the location of the iconic stadium.
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