Ed McKeever (baseball owner), Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetEd McKeever (baseball owner)
Owner of Brooklyn Dodgers
Date of Birth: 19-Mar-1859
Date of Death: 27-May-1925
Profession: baseball player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Ed McKeever (baseball owner)
- Edward J.
- McKeever (March 19, 1859 in Brooklyn, New York – April 29, 1925 in New York, New York) was a construction contractor in Brooklyn in the early 1900s.
- Ed and his brother Stephen 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.
- McKeever served as Vice-President of the Dodgers until Charles Ebbets died of a heart attack on April 18, 1925.
- McKeever became team president, but despite previously being in good health, he caught a cold at Ebbets' funeral and died of influenza a little more than a week later.
- He was buried in Holy Cross Cemetery in Brooklyn.
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