Jacob Ruppert
Jacob Ruppert
JacobRuppert, Jr.was an American brewer, businessman, National Guard colonel and United States Congressman who served for four terms representing New York from 1899 to 1907. He also owned the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball from 1915 until his death in 1939...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth5 August 1867
CountryUnited States of America
captain deliver fortune frank frightful heard lee luck paid players purchased rid since spent yankees
Captain Huston and myself have spent over $200,000 in strengthening the Yankees since we purchased the club. We paid $37,500 for Frank Baker; we paid $25,000 for Lee Magee, and we have got rid of a young fortune on other players who couldn't deliver the goods. And we have had some of the most frightful luck I ever heard of.
amateur became identified interested league national played time younger
I was always interested in baseball. In fact, in my younger years, I played it in an amateur way. But up to the time when I became identified with the Yankees, I was a strong National League rooter.
gamble stakes
Baseball is a little bigger gamble than most, and the stakes are pretty high.
bad everybody five found francisco joe knee landed market open risked san sell whom
It was in the open market that we found Joe DiMaggio with the San Francisco Seals. A bad knee had scared everybody else off DiMaggio. But we risked $25,000 in cash and five players, and landed a star whom I would not sell for $250,000.
perhaps thirty
When I was thirty and perhaps forty, I did not want a wife. It was too much fun being single.
stadium yankee
Yankee Stadium is a mistake: Not mine - the Giants'.