THIS DAY IN EARLY DODGERS HISTORY: JAN. 19

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Charles Ebbets

                     Jan. 19, 1888: 

         After a snow storm, Brooklyn baseball secretary Charles Ebbets tends to a toboggan slide at the team’s Washington Park field.  “The snow storm was a great help to Charley Ebbets’  toboggan field, as it provided the snow he wanted, and he piled up heaps of it by the grandstand as a store for future use next week in case cold weather should spoil the field surface,” the Brooklyn Eagle reports.