NPR 10-01:A Bittersweet Goodbye in Brooklyn 辛酸的告别

In 1957, Brooklyn Dodgers¹ fans were devastated² when they learned their team was moving to Los Angeles. Fifty years ago this week, the team played its last game at Ebbets Field. Harvey Sherman was in the stands.

Time now for StoryCorps, the project that is collecting America's stories. Today, something out of baseball history. Brooklyn Dodgers fans were devastated when they learned their team was moving out here to Los Angeles. It was the 1957 season and attendance at Brooklyn's Ebbets Field plummeted³.

Their final home game was played 50 years ago this week, fewer than 7,000 fans turned out. But Harvey Sherman was there. He recently came to StoryCorps to remember how he said goodbye to his favorite team.

The first two weeks of September, the Dodgers were on the road and they were scheduled to come back to Brooklyn for a makeup⁴ game with the Pirates. And that was gonna be their last game at Ebbets Field. It was my birthday, I was 21 and I was gonna go to the game. I've asked a few people to go and, they asked me: what are you? crazy? You're going to be the only one there. Who gives who, you know, the heck with them. They are leaving us . The heck with them. We're not interested. So I went to the game by myself. The lights were on, the grass was as beautiful as it was the first day of the season, the players were on the field, but there was no one in the stands. The place was vacant. It was eerie⁵. I could have sat any place in the ballpark I wanted.

During the game, Gladys Goodding who was the organist, everything she played was a blue song about losing a lover. Hahaha, and after the game, I remember leaving and she was playing 'Auld⁶ Lang Syne⁷' and then they cut her off in the middle and they put the Dodgers theme song on.

When I walked out of the Ebbets Field, I stood a block away and just looked back. The lights were still on and I said You know, goodbye, it's over. I never thought the Dodgers would leave, it was like a divorce. You felt like a child in a divorce that you had no control over what was happening. And I couldn’t make any clear than that. There was a period of time I wouldn’t even go to a ball game. And I had no recollection of what happened in 58, 59, 60, 70, 80, no, no recollection of whatsoever⁸. And I’m sure wonderful things happened. But I have I just completely have blocked it out of my mind and to this day, I, I miss it terribly, I miss it terribly.

Harvey Sherman in New York. His interview will be archived along with all the other city of American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, subscribe⁹ to the StoryCorps podcast at npr.org.

1 dodgers   

n.躲闪者，欺瞒者( dodger的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• a crackdown on fare dodgers on trains 对火车逃票者的严厉打击
• But Twain, Howells, and James were jeeringly described by Mencken as "draft-dodgers". 不过吐温、豪威尔斯和詹姆斯都是被门肯讥诮地叫做“逃避兵役的人。” 来自辞典例句

2 devastated   

v.彻底破坏( devastate的过去式和过去分词)；摧毁；毁灭；在感情上（精神上、财务上等）压垮adj.毁坏的；极为震惊的

参考例句：

• The bomb devastated much of the old part of the city. 这颗炸弹炸毁了旧城的一大片地方。
• His family is absolutely devastated. 他的一家感到极为震惊。

3 plummeted   

v.垂直落下，骤然跌落( plummet的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• Share prices plummeted to an all-time low. 股票价格暴跌到历史最低点。
• A plane plummeted to earth. 一架飞机一头栽向地面。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 makeup   

n.组织；性格；化装品

参考例句：

• Those who failed the exam take a makeup exam.这次考试不及格的人必须参加补考。
• Do you think her beauty could makeup for her stupidity?你认为她的美丽能弥补她的愚蠢吗？

5 eerie   

adj.怪诞的；奇异的；可怕的；胆怯的

参考例句：

• It's eerie to walk through a dark wood at night.夜晚在漆黑的森林中行走很是恐怖。
• I walked down the eerie dark path.我走在那条漆黑恐怖的小路上。

6 auld   

adj.老的，旧的

参考例句：

• Should auld acquaintance be forgot,and never brought to mind?怎能忘记旧日朋友，心中能不怀念？
• The party ended up with the singing of Auld Lang Sync.宴会以《友谊地久天长》的歌声而告终。

7 syne   

adv.自彼时至此时，曾经

参考例句：

• The meeting ended up with the singing of Auld Lang Syne.大会以唱《友谊地久天长》结束。
• We will take a cup of kindness yet for auld lang syne.让我们为了过去的好时光干一杯友谊的酒。

8 whatsoever   

adv.（用于否定句中以加强语气）任何；pron.无论什么

参考例句：

• There's no reason whatsoever to turn down this suggestion.没有任何理由拒绝这个建议。
• All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you,do ye even so to them.你想别人对你怎样，你就怎样对人。

9 subscribe   

vi.(to)订阅，订购；同意；vt.捐助，赞助

参考例句：

• I heartily subscribe to that sentiment.我十分赞同那个观点。
• The magazine is trying to get more readers to subscribe.该杂志正大力发展新订户。