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	Charlie Ebbets \| BaseballLibrary.com
		Ebbets joined the Brooklyn club as a bookkeeper in 1883, gradually began buying shares in the team, and became president in 1898.
		Ebbets is sometimes credited with inventing the rain check and with suggesting that teams with the worst records should draft first, long before there was a draft.
		When the park was opened the next year, it was named Ebbets Field by a vote of sportswriters.
	www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/ballplayers/E/Ebbets_Charlie.stm (989 words)

	Charles C. Ebbets - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ebbets was chosen to be one of the three men making the trip by virtue of his extensive knowledge of the region and wildlife and his ability with a camera to document the adventure for newspapers and the Essex Motor Company who sponsored the trip and car.
		Ebbets returned to his Miami home at the end of World War II and would be one of the three founders of the City of Miami Publicity Bureau.
		Ebbets' two most famous photos were taken during the construction of the Rockefeller Center in New York in 1932.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_C._Ebbets (797 words)

	Ballparks of Baseball-Ebbets Field-Brooklyn Dodgers
		When Charles Ebbets bought the team in the early 1900s he wanted a steel and concrete ballpark for the Dodgers.
		Ebbets Field had a capacity of 23,000 consisting of a covered double decked grandstand extending from the right field foul pole to homeplate and around to the third base side.
		The largest addition to Ebbets Field came in 1931 when the double decked grandstand was extended down the third base line, around the left field foul pole and into centerfield.
	www.ballparksofbaseball.com /past/EbbetsField.htm (723 words)

	Los Angeles Dodgers : History : Dodgers Timeline
		The ownership of the ballclub was in a state of flux, as Charles Ebbets had become a 24-year employee of the original triumvirate of owners -- Charles Byrne, Joseph Doyle and Ferdinand Abell.
		Ebbets, who toiled at almost every aspect of baseball management -- from selling peanuts, scorecards and tickets to working as Byrne's assistant in the front office, used every opportunity to purchase even a small amount of stock in the team.
		June 17, 1906: Charles Ebbets and manager Ned Hanlon are arrested after a scheme to charge fans after a Sunday game to avoid the Blue Laws doesn't pass muster with the local authorities.
	www.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/la/history/timeline02.jsp (1306 words)

	Lunch Atop a Skyscraper, c.1932 Prints by Charles C. Ebbets at AllPosters.com
		Published in the New York Herald Tribune, the dizzying shot, which has come to define Ebbets' work, was taken on the 69th floor of the GE Building during the construction of Rockefeller Center.
		Ebbets also photographed the same workers napping on the beam.
		Ebbets, himself, was courageous: in addition to his photography, he held many daredevil jobs, including employment as a pilot, auto racer, wrestler and hunter.
	www.allposters.com /-sp/Lunch-Atop-a-Skyscraper-c-1932-Posters_i1099829_.htm (216 words)

	Charlie Ebbets \| BaseballLibrary.com
		Ebbets joined the Brooklyn club as a bookkeeper in 1883, gradually began buying shares in the team, and became president in 1898.
		Ebbets is sometimes credited with inventing the rain check and with suggesting that teams with the worst records should draft first, long before there was a draft.
		When the park was opened the next year, it was named Ebbets Field by a vote of sportswriters.
	baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/ballplayers/E/Ebbets_Charlie.stm (989 words)

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		After the death of part-owner Charles Byrne, Charles Ebbets was named President of the ball club.
		Charles Ebbets bought land in Flatbush for the new home of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
		At Ebbets’ funeral, McKeever caught a cold, was then diagnosed with pneumonia, and died within a week.
	www.nyc.gov /html/sports/html/dodger_history.html (1401 words)

	Los Angeles Dodgers : History : Dodgers All-Time Owners
		Ebbets and the McKeevers buy out Henry Medicus, the Brooklyn Baseball Club, Inc., is formed and ownership is divided 50/50 between Ebbets and the McKeevers.
		Charles Ebbets is elected president as he and Ferdinand Abell buy the stock formerly owned by Charles Byrne.
		Charles Byrne and Ferdinand Abell buy out George Chauncey and own the ballclub along with Charles Ebbets, who began his career in the organization as a 24-year-old employee in 1883 and slowly acquired 10 percent of the club by reinvesting his income.
	losangeles.dodgers.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/la/history/owners.jsp (821 words)

	Los Angeles Dodgers : History : Dodgers Ballparks
		Ebbets was elected president of the ballclub and moved the team back to its original home.
		Ebbets Field was built by Charles Ebbets and Stephen and Edward McKeever.
		Ebbets partnered with Edward and Stephen McKeever, brothers who owned a contracting firm that specialized at first in sewers, water mains and asphalt, but later developed large building projects and housing in Brooklyn.
	losangeles.dodgers.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/la/history/ballparks.jsp (2023 words)

	Book Review: Ebbets Field - Brooklyn’s Baseball Shrine
		Ebbets Field is another story - it wasn’t just a ballpark it was the heart of a neighborhood and perhaps even the heart of a borough that had once been a city into itself.
		Named after Dodgers’ owner Charles Ebbets it was a marvel of concrete, marble and steel and provided both the Dodgers and fans from Brooklyn a home for 44 years.
		While Ebbets field may have originally been built as a baseball field it turned out to be so much more; it was the heart of the community back in its heyday.
	www.athomeplate.com /ebbetsbook.shtml (738 words)

	Los Angeles Dodgers : History : Dodgers Timeline
		Dodger owner Charles Ebbets, recognizing that the club could no longer survive in the confines of Washington Park, purchased land in Flatbush bordered by Bedford Avenue, Sullivan Street, Franklin Avenue and Montgomery Street.
		A group of sports editors suggested to Ebbets that the field should not be called Washington Park but "Ebbets Field." The Dodgers played an exhibition game against New York on April 5, 1913 for the unofficial opening of the field.
		Ebbets claims the money is going to charity and has a band and exhibition to prove it, but the police who arrest him and his manager Wilbert Robinson are unconvinced.
	www.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/la/history/timeline03.jsp (1477 words)

	Brooklyn's Stadium
		Charles Ebbets, the owner of the Dodgers, formed a dummy corporation, the Pylon Construction Company, with which he secretly purchased land in "Pigtown", an underdeveloped section of Flatbush.
		With all the help, and for $750,000, Charles Ebbets built one of the first truly modern ballparks, a example that would be followed for the next two decades, and imitated again in many of the new ballparks of the 1990s.
		It had a 27 foot high domed ceiling, and a tile floor that was a relief of a baseball surrounded by the words "Ebbets Field." The field itself was asymmetrical, because it was built to fit into the property that it was on.
	www.mapsites.net /gotham/webpages/justinspiegel/brooklynspark.html (754 words)

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		Ebbets found a spot in the slums of Brooklyn but the logistics were staggering.
		Ebbets began buying up the pieces but ran out of cash and had to sell 50 percent of the club to continue his quest.
		Ebbets Field was totally enclosed in 1926 when bleachers were added in left field.
	www.goletavalleyvoice.com /cgi-bin/sports/readarticle.cgi?article=111 (829 words)

	Elysian Fields Quarterly - The Baseball Review
		Ebbets remarked in 1920 that "no man belongs in baseball who is in the game solely from the box office standpoint." O'Malley's view is encapsulated by his decision to move to L.A. in 1957: "I am going to take it; I'm going to tell them that today.
		Charles Ebbets, at age twenty-three, was the club's assistant secretary and general handyman.
		On the Opening Day of Ebbets Field, would-be patrons crowded into the rotunda to purchase tickets, and with the lines at each window extending toward the center of the rotunda, hundreds of angry fans were soon crammed together in the small room.
	www.efqreview.com /NewFiles/v23n3/books-Expulsion.html (2621 words)

	BIOPROJ.SABR.ORG :: The Baseball Biography Project.
		Charles Hercules Ebbets was born in New York City on October 29, 1859, and attended the city's public schools.
		Ebbets installed two long benches at the back of the lower tier of the grandstand, one for himself and his friends and the other for the McKeevers and their friends.
		Over the years Ebbets received credit for several baseball innovations, including the rain check and the idea that teams should draft in inverse order to their final standings in the annual minor-league draft.
	bioproj.sabr.org /bioproj.cfm?a=v&v=a&bid=877&pid=3973 (1449 words)

	Walter O'Malley : Biography : Short Stops : Ebbets Explains...
		The rotunda at Ebbets Field was part of Charles Ebbets’ vision for his new ballpark in 1912.
		Charles Ebbets, who began his rise from ticket seller to Dodger President, envisioned a baseball park with all of the modern amenities needed to continue to attract fans.
		Ebbets had the foresight to know that fans would continue to flock to the field to watch the Brooklyn Dodgers.
	www.walteromalley.com /biog_ss_ebbets.php (736 words)

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