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By James Breig<\/a><\/p>\n

Baseball and flags have had a long relationship \u2013 and not just through the singing of \u201cOh, Say, Can You See\u201d before every game.<\/p>\n

After all, what are the pro teams chasing throughout their 162-game season? They\u2019re after a pennant! Fans follow the pennant races throughout the spring and summer, but we seldom stop to think that, at one time, an actual flag was handed to the winners at the end of the season.<\/p>\n

Even today, a visit to stadiums often includes a glance at the pennants circling the top of the structure \u2013 flags with the teams\u2019 names on them that are arrayed in the order of the standings.<\/p>\n

\"Ebbets<\/a>
Ebbets Stadium flag-raising in 1913 (Photo from Library of Congress)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A century ago, an unusual flag-related event occurred at the debut of Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, the legendary \u2013 and no longer extant \u2013 ballpark of the Dodgers (then nicknamed the Superbas). When the Stars and Stripes were pulled to the top of a pole before an exhibition game against the New York Yankees in April 1913, a woman did the honors.<\/p>\n

As described in The New-York Tribune, she was \u201cstrikingly gowned in white skirt and shoes and a vivid green coat and hat.\u201d She strode across the field \u201cwith the band and the players straggling behind.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, one thing was missing: the flag! \u201cA boy rushed frantically across the field and soon came staggering out with a monster piece of bunting that would have been a load for two full-sized men,\u201d said the Tribune.<\/p>\n

After \u201cThe Star-Spangling Banner\u201d was played, the woman \u201cstruggled valiantly with the halyards<\/a> and finally\u2026hoisted Old Glory to the top of the pole.\u201d She got the honor through her connections: She was Mrs. E.J. McKeever, the wife of a part-owner of the Brooklyn team.<\/p>\n

As for the game, the Superbas topped the Yanks, thanks, in part, to an inside-the-park homer by Casey Stengel, who, decades later, would manage the Bronx team to several World Series victories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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