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It’s baseball season. Take me out to the . . . graveyard?
To celebrate Monday’s Opening Day, Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery is offering a two-hour trolley tour, tomorrow, of the baseball greats buried there.
“Very few people, even Brooklynites, know Brooklyn was really the birthplace of baseball,” says Jeff Richman, Green-Wood’s historian and a tour leader. “As a result of that, we have a who’s who of many of the American pioneers of baseball.”
Those pioneers include Henry Chadwick, who Theodore Roosevelt dubbed the “father of baseball,” along with Charles Ebbets, owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, and James Creighton, baseball’s first national star. Part of the tour’s proceeds will go to fix the old “lemon-peel” baseball monument that was atop Creighton’s grave.
Tomorrow at 1 p.m. 500 25th St., at FifthAvenue, Sunset Park; 718-768-7300, green-wood.com. $15 for members, $20 for nonmembers.
— Tim Donnelly