Built in 1913, Ebbets Field (also known as Ebbets’ Folly) was the smallest of the city’s three ballparks, seating about 32,000 in its prime. It was intimate, surrounded on all sides by neighborhood streets. The shallow right field (296 feet down the line) featured a 19-foot wall topped by a 19-foot screen designed to turn cheap home runs into doubles; all the same, plenty of fly balls flew over the fence to be collected by neighborhood kids on Bedford Avenue. Although in 1912 Sporting Life reported that “when completed, Ebbets Field will be about the most modern, comfortable, perfectly appointed, and conveniently located baseball park in the world,” by the 1950s the seating capacity seemed too limited and parking inadequate for the growing borough.