Steve Steinberg

Colonel and Hug (eBook, ePUB)

The Partnership that Transformed the New York Yankees

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From the team's inception in 1903, the New York Yankees were a floundering group that played as second-class citizens to the New York Giants. With four winning seasons to date, the team was purchased in 1915 by Jacob Ruppert and his partner, Cap Til Huston. Three years later, when Ruppert hired Miller Huggins as manager, the unlikely partnership of the two figures began, one that set into motion the Yankees' run as the dominant baseball franchise of the 1920s and the rest of the twentieth century, capturing six American League pennants with Huggins at the helm and four more during Ruppert's lifetime. The Yankees' success was driven by Ruppert's executive style and enduring financial commitment, combined with Huggins's philosophy of continual improvement and personnel development. While Ruppert and Huggins had more than a little help from one of baseball's greats, Babe Ruth, their close relationship has been overlooked in the Yankees' rise to dominance. Though both were small of stature, the two men nonetheless became giants of the game with unassailable mutual trust and loyalty. The Colonel and Hug tells the story of how these two men transformed the Yankees. It also tells the larger story about baseball primarily in the tumultuous period from 1918 to 1929-with the end of the Deadball Era and the rise of the Lively Ball Era, a gambling scandal, and the collapse of baseball's governing structure-and the significant role the Yankees played in it all. While the hitting of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig won many games for New York, Ruppert and Huggins institutionalized winning for the Yankees.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 520
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780803284135
• Artikelnr.: 55281454

Autorenporträt

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.  

Inhaltsangabe

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