THIS DAY IN EARLY DODGERS HISTORY

Posted by Ron on Jan 4, 2012 | 0 comments

JAN. 4, 1898 –

    Charles H. Byrne, the co-founder and first president of the Brooklyn  baseball franchise, dies in New York of Bright’s Disease at age 55.  Sporting Life says Byrne “was easily the greatest magnate of them all.” Among other things, Byrne was the leading innovator of Ladies Day and invented non-smoking sections, the rain check, coaching boxes and the first triple header in baseball history.