The Colonel and Hug: The Partnership That Transformed the New York Yankees Contributor(s): Steinberg, Steve (Author), Spatz, Lyle (Author), Appel, Marty (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 149621966X ISBN-13: 9781496219664 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press OUR PRICE: $25.16 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2020 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Sports & Recreation | Baseball - History - History | United States - State & Local - Middle Atlantic (dc, De, Md, Nj, Ny, Pa) |
Dewey: 796.357 |
Physical Information: 1.29" H x 6" W x 9" (1.85 lbs) 582 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Chronological Period - 1900-1919 - Chronological Period - 1920's - Geographic Orientation - New York - Cultural Region - Northeast U.S. - Locality - New York, N.Y. |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. The team was purchased in 1915 by Jacob Ruppert and his partner, 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. 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. |