Charlie Ebbets Stats & Facts

Charlie Ebbets Essentials

Born: 10 29, 1859 in New York, NY USA
Died: 4 18 1925 in New York, NY USA

Full Name: Charles Hercules Ebbets

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Notable Events and Chronology

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December 31, 1897

Charles Ebbets gains a controlling 80 percent interest of the Brooklyn Dodgers

January 4, 1898

After the death of Charles H. Byrne Charles Ebbets replaces the one-third owner as president of the Bridegrooms (Dodgers)

April 30, 1898

Opening Day at Brooklyn’s new Washington Park attracts 15‚000 fans to see a 6-4 Brooklyn loss to Philadelphia. President Charles Ebbets and his young daughter‚ dressed in red‚ white‚ and blue‚ participate in the elaborate‚ patriotic pageantry. Veteran Sam Thompson hits the first HR in the new park‚ his last homer in the ML.

March 8, 1900

In New York, the National League meets, voting to shrink to eight teams

February 27, 1907

National League adopts a uniform ticket scheme

January 2, 1912

Charles Ebbets announces his intention to purchase land on which a new 30,000-seat stadium will be built

March 4, 1912

Ground is broken on Ebbets Field in Brooklyn

April 5, 1913

Ebbets Field Opens

February 8, 1916

Brooklyn Robins’ Frugal Proposal Rejected by National League

February 10, 1916

Giants ask for waivers on Chief Meyers

March 27, 1917

Robins’ owner Charles Ebbets has players on both teams sport numbers on their sleeves

October 5, 1920

Cleveland Indians starter Stan Coveleski gives the Indians a 3 – 1 opening victory with a five-hit complete game

December 10, 1924

The two leagues agree on a permanent rotation for World Series play proposed by Charles Ebbets

April 18, 1925

Brooklyn Robins owner Charles Ebbets dies of a heart attack at his Waldorf-Astoria Hotel apartment at the age of 64. Later in the day, his team opens the home season losing to the New York Giants at Ebbets Field, 7 – 0.

Ebbets joined the Brooklyn club as a bookkeeper in 1883, gradually began buying shares in the team, and became president in 1898. He never played the game, but tried his hand at managing in 1898, finishing tenth. Ned Hanlon, the owner-manager of the Baltimore Orioles, bought some of the remaining Brooklyn stock after the ’98 season, moved the best Baltimore players to Brooklyn, and won pennants in 1899 and 1900. However, when Hanlon wanted to move the team to Baltimore after the 1905 season, Ebbets bought him out.
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. He had a deserved reputation for honesty and was popular in Brooklyn.

He financed the building of a new ball park for his team in 1912 by selling half of the club to the McKeever Brothers, contractors in Brooklyn. When the park was opened the next year, it was named Ebbets Field by a vote of sportswriters. Ebbets’s Dodgers won pennants in 1916 and 1920. At the turn of the century, the prescient Ebbets was widely quoted when he said, “Baseball is in its infancy.”

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