Gallery: Happy birthday, Ebbets Field

Tuesday marks the 100th anniversary of the opening of Ebbets Field. Unlike the famous ballparks that celebrated a centennial last year (Fenway Park) and will celebrate one next year (Wrigley Field) , Ebbets Field has long since been torn down, having met the wrecking ball in 1960, just three years after the Dodgers deserted Brooklyn for Los Angeles. To mark the occasion, here is a gallery of the cherished old ballpark and some of the famous (and not-so-famous) names who called it home.

Gallery: Happy birthday, Ebbets Field

An aerial shot of Ebbets Field in July 1954. (AP)

Roy Campanella was left paralyzed by a car accident and didn't move west with the team, but he did make it to the demolition of Ebbets Field in Feb. 1960. (Photo by Bruce Bennett Studios/Getty Images)

Ebbets Field was lit up one last time on Sept. 24, 1957 before the last game in the ballpark's history. (Richard Meek/SI)

Carl Furillo took a hit and some new clothes away from Stan Musial when he made this catch in front of the famous Abe Stark sign that read "Hit Sign, Win Suit." (AP)

Gil Hodges rounds first during the 1953 World Series, which Brooklyn lost for the second straight year to the Yankees. (Mark Kauffman/SI)

Jackie Robinson performing his signaure play -- a steal of home -- in 1948. (AP)

Cookie Lavagetto gets a hero's welcome after his game-winning hit in the 1947 World Series. (Photo by Bill Meurer/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)

Dodgers infielders John Jorgensen, Pee Wee Reese, Eddie Stanky, and Jackie Robinson (L-R) at Ebbets Field on April 15, 1947, the day of Robinson's MLB debut. (AP)

Babe Ruth retired as a player in 1935 and his only in-uniform job in baseball after that was a one-season stint as the Dodgers third base coach in 1938. (Photo by Mark Rucker/Transcendental Graphics, Getty Images)

At the Ebbets Field opening on April 9, 1913 are (left to right) Charles H. Ebbets, Jr., Stephen McKeever, Charles H. Ebbets, Edward McKeever, Henry Medicus and Clarence Van Buskirk, the architect. (Sporting News Archives/Icon SMI)

A wrecking ball painted as a baseball broke apart Ebbets Field and many of the hearts of Dodgers fans in the borough. (Photo by Paul Bernius/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)