Night Game, 1938

Night Game, 1938

By David Freeland

Producer: March of Time, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons, Adapted by Scott Bolohan

Ebbets was a bed of light

in that moment

ripe with wonder.

What was it like? 

Blaze of sand and sight,

sky shuttered.

Night crowns us

Brooklynites.

See the unseeable:

white aurora,

orb in flight.

David Freeland is the author of the books American Hotel: the Waldorf-Astoria and the Making of a Century; Automats, Taxi Dances and Vaudeville: Excavating Manhattan’s Lost Places of Leisure; and Ladies of Soul.  He has written for the Wall Street Journal, New York History, American Songwriter, and other publications.  He lives in New York, where he lectures frequently on the city’s culture and history.