Charles Ebbets: The Man Behind the Dodgers and Brooklyn’s Beloved Ballpark

Author:   John G. Zinn
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
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9780786499731


Pages:   198
Publication Date:   30 November 2018
Format:   Paperback
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Charles Ebbets: The Man Behind the Dodgers and Brooklyn’s Beloved Ballpark


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While much has been written about the legendary players and managers of the Deadball Era (1901-1919), far less attention has been paid to baseball club owners like Charles Ebbets who put together the teams and built the era’s legendary ball parks. In 1898, after a 15 year apprenticeship, Ebbets became president of the Brooklyn Dodgers, taking over a chronic second division team in poor financial condition. Over the next 25 years, he built four pennant winning clubs while making the franchise one of the most profitable in baseball. Even more impressively, Charles Ebbets gave Brooklyn two state of the art ball parks, something Hall of Famers, Branch Rickey and Walter O’Malley couldn’t to do even once. Ebbets was also an effective steward of the national pastime, working tirelessly for innovations that would help all teams, not just his own. In spite of all his success, however, Ebbets’ weaknesses also sowed the seeds for the destruction of what he had so painstakingly built. This first full length biography of Charles Ebbets provides an in depth look his life and baseball career while filling a gap in the history of the Deadball Era and the Brooklyn Dodgers.

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Author:   John G. Zinn
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.333kg
ISBN:  

9780786499731


ISBN 10:   0786499737
Pages:   198
Publication Date:   30 November 2018
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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"John Zinn's well-researched biography of Ebbets gives us a detailed look at a Dodgers owner who devoted 42 years of his life to Brooklyn baseball. Zinn skillfully recounts Ebbets’s role in helping guide the National League through the challenges presented by three rival leagues, as well as his long battle to bring Sunday baseball to New York."" - Lyle Spatz, author of Hugh Casey: The Triumphs and Tragedies of a Brooklyn Dodger."


John Zinn's well-researched biography of Ebbets gives us a detailed look at a Dodgers owner who devoted 42 years of his life to Brooklyn baseball. Zinn skillfully recounts Ebbets's role in helping guide the National League through the challenges presented by three rival leagues, as well as his long battle to bring Sunday baseball to New York. --Lyle Spatz, author of Hugh Casey: The Triumphs and Tragedies of a Brooklyn Dodger.


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A long time member of the Society for American Baseball Research, John G. Zinn is the author of three books about the Brooklyn Dodgers and numerous articles and essays about the history of baseball.

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