By JIM BUTLER

It’s not Ebbets Field, or the Polo Grounds, or Forbes Field, or Crosley Field or even the Astrodome, but its demise means just as much to many. 

The Alexandria City Council will likely adopt an ordinance at its meeting today authorizing Mayor Jacques Roy to accept the low bid, whatever that is, for selective demolition and clearance of Bringhurst Field. 

Vestiges of the grand dame of area baseball will endure but most of her remains will be taken down, before they fall down. 

Roy, attuned to the field’s place in hearts and history, says its iconic facade will be 100 percent left intact, but most of the rest has to go.

He said the stadium was the subject of robust discussion in preparation of this fiscal year’s budget (still to be posted online). 

The ultimate decision: preserve the bones and structure, remove the eyesore, the blight and the unsafe. 

The stadium has stood since 1933, and was renovated in the early 1970s and extensively touched up in the early 1990s, both times in hopes of keeping minor league baseball playing there. 

It closed in 2013. 

The outfield wall’s removal created a green space for public use in 2017 and a youth park was constructed at the former right field corner. 

Discussions continue, the mayor said, about how to best take advantage of space the former ball field provides in the Masonic Drive corridor.