Floyd Patterson Ballfields

Christopher Ave., Riverdale Ave., Newport St., Mother Gaston Blvd.

Brooklyn, 11212

This text is part of Parks’ Historical Signs Project and can be found posted within the park.

This park honors Floyd Patterson (1935-2006), a boxing legend who was the world heavyweight champion for the periods 1956-59 and 1960-62. Patterson was born in Waco, North Carolina and moved with his family to Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn when he was a small child. While attending the Wiltwyck School for Boys in Esopus, New York, Patterson learned how to box. In 1952, he won nine amateur boxing crowns, including the Olympic middleweight gold medal at the summer games in Helsinki, Finland.

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