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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of PhotographsForeword by Marty AppelPrefaceAcknowledgmentsPrologue: A Collaboration Is BornPart 1. The Early Years1. Everything He Touched Won First Prize2. The Colonel Makes a Name for Himself3. Nothing at All but Ambition and Pluck and Brains4. No Smarter Man in BaseballPart 2. Ruppert Buys the Yankees5. How about the Yankees?6. The Rocky Road to Ownership7. The New Owners Get to Work8. Fritz Maisel Follies9. Anti-German Hysteria and Two Disappointing SeasonsPart 3. Huggins Arrives10. An Impatient City with an Unforgiving Press11. The Nation in Upheaval12. A Season of Transition13. A Battle Leads to a War14. A Home Is No Longer a HomePart 4. Ruth and Barrow Arrive15. Buying the Babe16. The Risks of Ruth17. Ruth Roars into the Twenties18. Squabbling Owners and Scandal Lead to Landis Coronation19. Huggins StaysPart 5. The Yankees Rise to the Top20. One of the Fiercest Pennant Battles Ever21. The Struggles and Troubles of Huggins22. Huggins Is My Manager23. This Is the Happiest Day of My LifePart 6. The Yankees and the Babe Stumble24. It’s Tougher to Manage a Pennant Winner25. New Homes for Single Men and Their Team26. Huggins Waited One Year Too LongPart 7. The Yankees Rise Again27. Florida’s Boom to Bust and the Yankees’ Bust to Boom28. Huggins Silences His Critics, for Good29. Winning Pennants Is the Business of the Yankees30. Knowing How to Buy and Knowing How to BuildPart 8. Huggins Exits31. The Law of Averages Catches Up with the Yankees32. No Man Ever Struggled Harder33. Succeeding an ImmortalPart 9. The Thirties34. McCarthy Is My Manager35. Repeal, Real Estate, and the Third Reich36. The DiMaggio Years37. It Took Time for Success to Become a Tradition38. The Mystery LadyEpilogue: A Legacy of ChampionsNotesBibliographyIndex ...
