A field of dreams in hartford Marty adler had just come home from the army, and he remembers the day well, just as he remembers sept.23, 1957, when the Brooklyn Dodgers' season ended in a game against the Pittsburgh Pirates. That's the day the real piracy took place.The dodgers left brooklynfor los angeles, and left a hole in the heart of adler and all his buddies in brooklyn who loved america's team. When they left the brooklyn ballpark, ebbets field, they lost it all. But there are two men in hartford greg martin, 40, and tom heaney, 41 who are investing their time, money and creative juices fulltime into bringing a minor league baseball team to hartford and most important of all recreating ebbets field in downtown hartford. They had architectural drawings done by lescher mahoney, the tampa sports architects what have designed 25 minor league ballparks. And the pair already own rights to the ebbets field trademark, allowing them to use the name for the stadium and sell ... Read more »