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McKeever Bros.
The Brooklyn Robins/Dodgers ownership group, elated to have won the 1916 National League championship after a 16-year drought, and their team's manager Wilbert Robinson, during the 1916 World Series, the first played at Ebbets Field.
"Charles Hercules Ebbets, Sr. (October 29, 1859–April 18, 1925) was an American sports executive who owned the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1902 to 1925."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Ebbets
"Wilbert Robinson (June 29, 1863 – August 8, 1934), nicknamed "Uncle Robbie", was an American catcher, coach and manager in Major League Baseball. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1945."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilbert_Robinson
"Stephen W. McKeever (October 31, 1853 in Brooklyn, New York – March 7, 1938) was a construction contractor in Brooklyn, New York in the early 1900s. Steve and his brother Ed bought half of the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team from Henry Medicus on January 2, 1912. Together with co-owner Charles Ebbets they built what became Ebbets Field.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_McKeever
Edward J. McKeever (March 19, 1859 in Brooklyn, New York – May 27, 1925)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_McKeever_(baseball_owner)
[between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920]
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