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

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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List of contents

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

About the author

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.

 

Summary

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.

Product details

Authors	Lyle Spatz, Steve Steinberg, Steve Spatz Steinberg, Steve/ Spatz Steinberg
Publisher	University of Nebraska Press
Languages	English
Product format	Hardback
Released	01.05.2015
EAN	9780803248656
ISBN	978-0-8032-4865-6
No. of pages	576
Subjects	Guides > Sport > Ball sport; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous

Product details

• Authors: Lyle Spatz, Steve Steinberg, Steve Spatz Steinberg, Steve/ Spatz Steinberg
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2015
• EAN: 9780803248656
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-4865-6
• No. of pages: 576
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > Ball sport; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous