The story of New York Yankees owner Jacob Ruppert and manager Miller Huggins, who from 1918 to 1929 partnered to build the Yankees into the nation’s dominant sports franchise.
The story of New York Yankees owner Jacob Ruppert and manager Miller Huggins, who from 1918 to 1929 partnered to build the Yankees into the nation’s dominant sports franchise. Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Steve Steinberg is the coauthor (with Lyle Spatz) of 1921: The Yankees, the Giants, and the Battle for Baseball Supremacy in New York (Nebraska, 2010), winner of the 2011 Seymour Medal, and the author of Urban Shocker: Silent Hero of Baseball’s Golden Age (Nebraska, 2017), winner of the SABR Baseball Research Award. Lyle Spatz is the author of Dixie Walker: A Life in Baseball. Marty Appel is the former director of public relations for the New York Yankees and author of Pinstripe Empire: The New York Yankees from before the Babe to after the Boss.
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List of Photographs Foreword by Marty Appel Preface Acknowledgments Prologue: A Collaboration Is Born Part 1. The Early Years 1. Everything He Touched Won First Prize 2. The Colonel Makes a Name for Himself 3. Nothing at All but Ambition and Pluck and Brains 4. No Smarter Man in Baseball Part 2. Ruppert Buys the Yankees 5. How about the Yankees? 6. The Rocky Road to Ownership 7. The New Owners Get to Work 8. Fritz Maisel Follies 9. Anti-German Hysteria and Two Disappointing Seasons Part 3. Huggins Arrives 10. An Impatient City with an Unforgiving Press 11. The Nation in Upheaval 12. A Season of Transition 13. A Battle Leads to a War 14. A Home Is No Longer a Home Part 4. Ruth and Barrow Arrive 15. Buying the Babe 16. The Risks of Ruth 17. Ruth Roars into the Twenties 18. Squabbling Owners and Scandal Lead to Landis Coronation 19. Huggins Stays Part 5. The Yankees Rise to the Top 20. One of the Fiercest Pennant Battles Ever 21. The Struggles and Troubles of Huggins 22. Huggins Is My Manager 23. This Is the Happiest Day of My Life Part 6. The Yankees and the Babe Stumble 24. It’s Tougher to Manage a Pennant Winner 25. New Homes for Single Men and Their Team 26. Huggins Waited One Year Too Long Part 7. The Yankees Rise Again 27. Florida’s Boom to Bust and the Yankees’ Bust to Boom 28. Huggins Silences His Critics, for Good 29. Winning Pennants Is the Business of the Yankees 30. Knowing How to Buy and Knowing How to Build Part 8. Huggins Exits 31. The Law of Averages Catches Up with the Yankees 32. No Man Ever Struggled Harder 33. Succeeding an Immortal Part 9. The Thirties 34. McCarthy Is My Manager 35. Repeal, Real Estate, and the Third Reich 36. The DiMaggio Years 37. It Took Time for Success to Become a Tradition 38. The Mystery Lady Epilogue: A Legacy of Champions Notes Bibliography Index
List of Photographs Foreword by Marty Appel Preface Acknowledgments Prologue: A Collaboration Is Born Part 1. The Early Years 1. Everything He Touched Won First Prize 2. The Colonel Makes a Name for Himself 3. Nothing at All but Ambition and Pluck and Brains 4. No Smarter Man in Baseball Part 2. Ruppert Buys the Yankees 5. How about the Yankees? 6. The Rocky Road to Ownership 7. The New Owners Get to Work 8. Fritz Maisel Follies 9. Anti-German Hysteria and Two Disappointing Seasons Part 3. Huggins Arrives 10. An Impatient City with an Unforgiving Press 11. The Nation in Upheaval 12. A Season of Transition 13. A Battle Leads to a War 14. A Home Is No Longer a Home Part 4. Ruth and Barrow Arrive 15. Buying the Babe 16. The Risks of Ruth 17. Ruth Roars into the Twenties 18. Squabbling Owners and Scandal Lead to Landis Coronation 19. Huggins Stays Part 5. The Yankees Rise to the Top 20. One of the Fiercest Pennant Battles Ever 21. The Struggles and Troubles of Huggins 22. Huggins Is My Manager 23. This Is the Happiest Day of My Life Part 6. The Yankees and the Babe Stumble 24. It’s Tougher to Manage a Pennant Winner 25. New Homes for Single Men and Their Team 26. Huggins Waited One Year Too Long Part 7. The Yankees Rise Again 27. Florida’s Boom to Bust and the Yankees’ Bust to Boom 28. Huggins Silences His Critics, for Good 29. Winning Pennants Is the Business of the Yankees 30. Knowing How to Buy and Knowing How to Build Part 8. Huggins Exits 31. The Law of Averages Catches Up with the Yankees 32. No Man Ever Struggled Harder 33. Succeeding an Immortal Part 9. The Thirties 34. McCarthy Is My Manager 35. Repeal, Real Estate, and the Third Reich 36. The DiMaggio Years 37. It Took Time for Success to Become a Tradition 38. The Mystery Lady Epilogue: A Legacy of Champions Notes Bibliography Index
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