The Colonel and Hug: The Partnership That Transformed the New York Yankees - Hardcover

Steinberg, Steve; Spatz, Lyle

 
9780803248656: The Colonel and Hug: The Partnership That Transformed the New York Yankees
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0803248652 ISBN 13: 9780803248656
Verlag: UNIV OF NEBRASKA PR, 2015

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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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Steve Steinberg is a baseball historian and 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 author of Baseball in St. Louis, 1900&;1925. Lyle Spatz is the author or editor of several books, including Dixie Walker: A Life in Baseball. Marty Appel is the former director of public relations for the New York Yankees and author of several books, including Pinstripe Empire: The New York Yankees from before the Babe to after the Boss.


 

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UNIV OF NEBRASKA PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2015
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Englisch
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ISBN 13 
9780803248656
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