Charles Ebbets served as president of the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1898 to 1925.
24 Facts About Charles Ebbets
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Charles Ebbets first attended Public School 39 on Clark Street but left that school when his father moved to Astoria shortly after 1871.
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Charles Ebbets then began work as an architect with the firm of William T Beer.
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Charles Ebbets next became a bookkeeper with Frank Leslie's publishing house, a job he kept until he turned his attention to baseball.
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Charles Ebbets was not only a baseball person, as he was a fan of bowling.
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Charles Ebbets was a member of the Prospect Club, the Carleton Club, and the Commonwealth Council team of the Royal Arcanum Bowling League.
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Charles Ebbets got a job working for the team selling tickets, score cards, and peanuts at their Washington Park stadium at Fifth Avenue and Third Street.
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Charles Ebbets signed with the club in 1882, when it was in the Inter-State League.
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Charles Ebbets has been Treasurer ever since, and has handled every dollar that came into the club in fifteen years.
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Charles Ebbets knew that the Washington Park site would not do for the game of baseball that he envisioned.
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Charles Ebbets had already learned that it was important to get the fans to the game.
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Charles Ebbets quietly began to purchase individual lots in Pigtown over a four-year period.
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In 1912, he sold half of his holdings in the Superbas to raise the $750,000 needed to build a new stadium and construction of the Superbas' new 25,000-seat stadium at 55 Sullivan Place near the intersection of Empire Boulevard and Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn was completed and Charles Ebbets Field opened for its first ballgame.
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Charles Ebbets served as a Democratic assemblyman representing the Twelfth District in the New York State legislature in 1896.
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Charles Ebbets ran in the election of 1904 but was defeated by 777 votes.
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Charles Ebbets married first April 10,1878, Minnie Frances Amelia Broadbent, born January 1,1858, in New York City.
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Charles Ebbets felt unwell and was confined to his room for two weeks.
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Charles H Ebbets died of heart failure that afternoon in his suite at the Waldorf Hotel.
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Charles Ebbets was a hands-on baseball owner who introduced numerous concepts into the game that still live on in some form in the present day.
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Charles Ebbets helped in changing the length of the Major League Baseball schedule from 140 to 154 in 1904, based on the distances required to visit each club in the league.
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Charles Ebbets came up with the "rain check" in 1911, in which a detached portion of the ticket could be used in the event of a rain-out.
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Charles Ebbets proposed having all teams to put numbers on the players' sleeves or caps during a National League meeting on December 13,1922, but it was left to the discretion of the teams.
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Charles Ebbets's will stipulated that his shares in the Dodgers be kept intact and sold as a unit.
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Charles Ebbets died in that home on April 26,1959.