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Welcome to Dodgertown: Directed by Brett Rapkin. With Steve Garvey, Sandy Koufax, Tommy Lasorda, Rick Monday. A definitive history of the beloved Spring Training of the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers from 1948-2008.
- Brett Rapkin
- 2015
- Documentary, History, Sport
- Steve Garvey, Sandy Koufax, Tommy Lasorda
This is "Welcome To Dodgertown Open & First Segment" by Podium Pictures, LLC on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
- 12 min
- 467
- Podium Pictures, LLC
- 1929
- 1940s
- 1947
- 1948
- 1953
- 1954
- 1957
- 1964-65
- 1965
- 1974
A handful of citizens, including Bud Holman, a local business leader— and eventual namesake of the stadium— establishes the Vero Beach Airport. Six years later, he negotiates to bring direct air mail service to the airport, making Vero Beach the smallest U.S. city to have the service.
When World War II started, the facility is quickly put to military use, becoming a Navy and Marine flight training base. By November 1942, the land where Dodgertown would eventually stand houses more than 3000 soldiers.
The city of Vero Beach gets the land and training facility back from the U.S. government and in December 1947, the Brooklyn Dodgers select it to be their home for Spring Training 1948.
The team and the city ink a five-year lease agreement and name the property DodgerTown. A postal station, canteen, barber shop, Western Union office and lounge all are part of the facility. More than 600 players are housed in the former U.S. Naval Air Station barracks. On March 31, Jackie Robinson, the first African-American Major Leaguer, homers i...
The new ballpark is dedicated and named Holman Stadium on March 11 by Dodger president Walter O' Malley.
O’Malley builds a small nine-hole, pitch-and-putt golf course for players to use for recreational purposes.
The Dodgers move from Brooklyn to Los Angeles. The formal announcement is made October 8 and the people of New York City are heartbroken.
The Dodgers purchase 110.4 acres of airport land, building and improvements for $133,087.50 from the city of Vero Beach and a agreement between the city and the ball club is finalized. The Dodgers become the only major league club in Florida to own and maintain their own Spring Training site.
With Jackie Robinson in the broadcast booth, ABC TV tests out new television innovations such as stop-action and isolated camera shots at the first national telecast of an exhibition game. Dodgertown Golf Club opens. The nine-hole golf course is made available to Dodger players, the public and African American players, who were forbidden from golfi...
Investment and expansion continues at Dodgertown, including a 23,000-square foot administration building, complete with major league clubhouse, minor league clubhouse, medical department, dining room, kitchen, broadcast studio, photo dark room, lounge, media workroom, two training rooms, two equipment rooms and a laundry room.
JACKIE'S LEGACY. Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in 1947 and spent 10 seasons playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers, where he batted .311 and slugged 137 home runs. Over the course of his career, Robinson won the 1947 NL Rookie of the Year Award, the 1949 NL Most Valuable Player Award and was named to six All-Star Games.
Nov 3, 2023 · 0:08. Jackie Robinson with teammates at Dodgertown, Vero Beach, Florida, circa 1950. Getty Images. By 1948, Jackie Robinson had largely been accepted in Flatbush as the first Black major leaguer, and many more Black players were working their way through the expansive system of Dodger farm clubs. But to have all the Dodgers train in Florida ...
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Jun 17, 2021 · Dodgertown looks great, worthy of its glorious past. For about 30 minutes last week, I was back in my baseball-writing past, chatting with former All-Star outfielder Ken Griffey Sr. on the Holman Stadium concourse at the once-sacred ground many of us still call Dodgertown. “I made every trip here from Tampa,” Griffey said, recalling the ...
