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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 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).
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.
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 ...
Upon the razing of Ebbets Field in 1960, she and five members of the Dodger Sym-Phony band appeared on Be Our Guest, a short-lived television program on CBS. Other guests on that episode were former Dodgers Ralph Branca and Carl Erskine , and former Phil Silvers Show regulars Maurice Gosfield and Harvey Lembeck . [ 17 ]
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 ...
He began practicing playing the organ at home on his family’s Hammond M-3 at the age of five. [3] He learned to play guitar, drums and bass as a teenager. [ 3 ] He enrolled at Westminster Choir College at what is now Rider University in 1975 with a declared major of organ performance and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in classical organ.
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