Charles Joseph Bates was born on the foggiest night, 43 minutes after Thanksgiving, on Nov. 24, 2006, in State College, Pa. He was the happiest little guy. Charlie loved snuggling and classical ...

He spent 42 years of his life in the business of baseball, his name and Brooklyn were known further and wider than even Coney Island.

Charles F. Bates Sr., 91, of Elgin, a retired chief of personnel service for the U.S. Department of Internal Revenue in Chicago, died Sunday, Dec. 24, in Provena St. Joseph Hospital, Elgin. Born an… ...

That's not exactly what happened on July 1, 1917, but something similar did; Brooklyn Dodgers manager Wilbert Robinson and team owner Charles H. Ebbets (the field later aptly named after him ...

Ebbets Field was the baseball home for a team with various names – Trolley Dodgers, Dodgers, Flock and Robins were interchangeable monikers until the Dodgers label was officially affixed through ...

Location: 55 Sullivan Place, Flatbush section of Brooklyn. Designed by architect Clarence Randall Van Buskirk. Cost owner Charles Ebbets $750,000. Capacity: 25,000 (1913); 32,000 (1932, added upper… ...

Last time, the culprit was Charles Ebbets. The headstrong owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers had separated amicably from his wife, Minnie, and taken up quarters with a lovely neighbor, Grace, who was a ...

On Dec. 31, 1897, Charles Ebbets became the controlling owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, then known as the Grooms. Ebbets gained an 80% interest in the team after spending most of the decade as a ...