The first night game at Ebbets field was on June 15, 1938 before nearly 40,000 fans. Lighting up baseball in Brooklyn was the brainchild of Dodger General Manager Larry MacPhail, a Baseball Hall of Fame executive. The game was marked by the extraordinary feat of Johnny Vander Meer’s second consecutive no-hitter. A record that will probably never be broken since it would take the almost impossible task of hurling three no-hitters.