April 18, 1925: Mourning Charles Ebbets
Mourning hovered over Brooklyn like a crib mobile. Charles Ebbets, a Brooklynite loyal to his core, had passed away. It was Ebbets who scampered up the corporate ladder of Brooklyn’s professional baseball team from office clerk to owner. It was Ebbets who sold half his interest in the ballclub to finance the building of Ebbets […]