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Gladys Goodding (June 18, 1893 – November 18, 1963) was an American musician who served as the stadium organist at Ebbetts Field for the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1942 to 1957, when the team left Brooklyn and moved to Los Angeles. She began her sports career playing organ in Madison Square Garden.
Ebbets Field installed an organ for the 1942 season, and Gladys Goodding, an organ player for silent films as well as some sporting events at Madison Square Garden, was the first professional baseball organist.
Ebbets Field was a Major League Baseball stadium in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, New York.It is mainly known for having been the home of the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team of the National League (1913–1957).
It's the sound that signifies America's past time. The organ pairs baseball with the tones of the past and present. And it was first heard over 80 years ago at Wrigley Field on Chicago's north ...
Among Ebbets Field's historic moments are as site of the first televised baseball game, in 1939, and the first major league game to feature an African-American player -- Jackie Robinson, in 1947.
The first baseball team to introduce an organ was the Chicago Cubs, who put an organ in Wrigley Field as an experiment in 1941 for two games. Ebbets Field, home of the Brooklyn Dodgers, hired baseball's first full-time organist, Gladys Goodding. Over the years, many ballparks caught on to the trend, and many organists became well-known and ...
4) Empower Field at Mile High, Denver Broncos (4.2) Danny H. from West Covina, California, writes, "Pretty cool stadium! We came here for a Chiefs vs. Broncos game!
Asleep at the Wheel is an American country band based in Austin, Texas.Formed in Paw Paw, West Virginia in 1970, the group originally consisted of vocalist and guitarist Ray Benson, vocalist and drummer LeRoy Preston, steel guitarist Lucky Oceans, bassist Rob Silver, and pianist Danny Levin, who were joined later by bassist Gene Dobkin, and vocalist and guitarist Chris O'Connell.