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
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.
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'.