Jackie Robinson’s high school baseball team, Muir High

Muir players gather during a pitching change on April 24. The tattered field conditions include clumps of dying grass in the infield, chunks of dirt in a rutted right field and a sloping hill toward a muddy basin in left field.

(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

April 25, 2015 6:28 PM PT

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The high school baseball home of Jackie Robinson is a cratered, weed-choked monument to a memory forgotten. In the last three seasons combined, Muir High -- the baseball team whose uniform was once worn by the most important baseball player ever -- has gone 2-55 while being outscored, 635-96.

The horrible field conditions at Muir high match the product on the diamond, a baseball team that has been outscored by an average of a dozen runs during this winless season.

(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

Muir Coach Robert Galvan speaks words of encouragement to his team after another loss. Jackie Robinson’s former high school team has gone 2-55 while being outscored, 635-96, in the last three seasons.

(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

Muir baseball players bring equipment to a shed -- which is supposed to be a team locker room/bathroom, but the players won’t use it because of the nasty conditions -- behind the field on April 24.

(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

A Muir baseball player stores his equipment in a room that was meant to be a team locker room/bathroom but is only used for storage because of the nasty conditions.

(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)