In the image of humility : Charles Ebbets and his refinements of the Brooklyn baseball scene, 1853-1913 typescript 1992, April Richard P. Ryba. 1992.

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In the image of humility : Charles Ebbets and his refinements of the Brooklyn baseball scene, 1853-1913 typescript 1992, April Richard P. Ryba. 1992.

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Charles Ebbets purchased Brooklyn's ballclub piecmeal througout the late nineteenth century. Ebbets took a game populated with towdies and upper-middle class spectators and brought it to the working class fan with his vision of baseball as a fan's game. Most notable was the construction of Ebbets Field. This paper traces Ebbets' work from inside the baseball establishment to reshape the attitudes and atmospheres associated with the game.

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