One recent weekday morning at the Legoland Discovery Center in Schaumburg, Illinois, dozens of excited 7- and 8-year-olds were posing for pictures with a life-size ticket taker built of Lego bricks.

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"I tried playing trumpet in my high-school marching band but I was soon demoted to ticket-taker at football games, " he said.

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And the man who built Ebbets Field started out as a ticket-taker at Washington Park, then worked his way up to control the team.

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