{"product_id":"the-colonel-and-hug-the-partnership-that-transformed-the-new-york-yankees-paperback-softback-9781496219664","title":"The Colonel and Hug; The Partnership That Transformed the New York Yankees (Paperback \/ softback) 9781496219664","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Colonel and Hug\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Partnership That Transformed the New York Yankees\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSteve Steinberg (Author), Lyle Spatz (Author), Marty Appel (Foreword by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496219664\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 April 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e582 pages, 45 photographs, index\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"A top-notch sports biography.\"-\u003ci\u003eKirkus \u003c\/i\u003estarred review\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Colonel and Hug\u003c\/i\u003e explores that remarkably fruitful relationship in a meticulous account brimming with quotes from the period.\"-Edward Achorn, \u003ci\u003eWeekly Standard\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Colonel and Hug\u003c\/i\u003e explains admirably how the Yankees became the Yankees. Steinberg and Spatz draw heavily on their research to provide a readable, lively narrative.\"-Bob D'Angelo, \u003ci\u003eTampa Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"A strong dual biography.\"-Brett L. Abrams, \u003ci\u003eSport in American History\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"This book provides a valuable service in helping its readers better understand the genesis of the greatest dynasty in American sports history.\"-David Shiner, \u003ci\u003eInside Game\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Miller Huggins and Jacob Ruppert are two of baseball’s all-time great characters, and they finally get the treatment they deserve in this highly entertaining, meticulously researched book. You don’t have to be a Yankees fan to enjoy this wonderful story from baseball’s golden age.”-Jonathan Eig, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e best-selling author of \u003ci\u003eLuckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The foundation of the legendary New York Yankees that we know today was arguably built on the shoulders of three men: Ruth, Ruppert, and Huggins. While Babe Ruth's exploits have been well documented over the years, we now finally have the definitive story of Yankees owner Colonel Jacob Ruppert and his diminutive giant of a manager, Miller Huggins. . . . A 'must-read' for any fan of the history of this great game.\"—Vince Gennaro, president of the Society for Baseball Research and professor of sports business management at Columbia University \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Everyone thinks that it was Babe Ruth who turned the suffering Yankees of New York into the Crusaders of Baseball. The Babe helped, surely, but it was two invisible characters-the team’s owner, Jacob Ruppert, and the manager, Miller Huggins-who played major roles in the Yankees' everlasting turnaround. Our blessings to Steve Steinberg and Lyle Spatz for finally bringing Ruppert and Huggins to new generations of fans.”-Al Silverman, former editor of \u003ci\u003eSport Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e and editor and publisher at Viking\/Penguin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom 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.\u003cbr\u003e The Yankees’ success was driven by Ruppert’s executive style and enduring financial commitment, combined with Huggins’s philosophy of continual improvement and personnel development. \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Colonel and Hug\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of how these two men transformed the Yankees in their rise to dominance.\u003c\/b\u003e It also tells the larger story of America’s gradual move from neutrality to entry into World War I and the emergence and impact of Prohibition on American society. This story tells of the end of the Deadball Era and the rise of the Lively Ball Era, a gambling scandal, and the collapse of baseball’s governing structure-and the significant role the Yankees played in it all. While the hitting of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig won many games for New York, Ruppert and Huggins institutionalized winning for the Yankees.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eList of Photographs\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eForeword by Marty Appel\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePreface\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePrologue: A Collaboration Is Born\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003ePart 1. The Early Years\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e1. Everything He Touched Won First Prize\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e2. The Colonel Makes a Name for Himself\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e3. Nothing at All but Ambition and Pluck and Brains\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e4. No Smarter Man in Baseball\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003ePart 2. Ruppert Buys the Yankees\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e5. How about the Yankees?\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e6. The Rocky Road to Ownership\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e7. The New Owners Get to Work\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e8. Fritz Maisel Follies\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e9. Anti-German Hysteria and Two Disappointing Seasons\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003ePart 3. Huggins Arrives\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e10. An Impatient City with an Unforgiving Press\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e11. The Nation in Upheaval\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e12. A Season of Transition\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e13. A Battle Leads to a War\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e14. A Home Is No Longer a Home\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003ePart 4. Ruth and Barrow Arrive\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e15. Buying the Babe\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e16. The Risks of Ruth\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e17. Ruth Roars into the Twenties\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e18. Squabbling Owners and Scandal Lead to Landis Coronation\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e19. Huggins Stays\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003ePart 5. The Yankees Rise to the Top\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e20. One of the Fiercest Pennant Battles Ever\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e21. The Struggles and Troubles of Huggins\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e22. Huggins Is My Manager\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e23. This Is the Happiest Day of My Life\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003ePart 6. The Yankees and the Babe Stumble\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e24. It’s Tougher to Manage a Pennant Winner\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e25. New Homes for Single Men and Their Team\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e26. Huggins Waited One Year Too Long\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003ePart 7. The Yankees Rise Again\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e27. Florida’s Boom to Bust and the Yankees’ Bust to Boom\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e28. Huggins Silences His Critics, for Good\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e29. Winning Pennants Is the Business of the Yankees\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e30. Knowing How to Buy and Knowing How to Build\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003ePart 8. Huggins Exits\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e31. The Law of Averages Catches Up with the Yankees\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e32. No Man Ever Struggled Harder\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e33. Succeeding an Immortal\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003ePart 9. The Thirties\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e34. McCarthy Is My Manager\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e35. Repeal, Real Estate, and the Third Reich\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e36. The DiMaggio Years\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e37. It Took Time for Success to Become a Tradition\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e38. The Mystery Lady\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue: A Legacy of Champions\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eNotes\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eBibliography\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52599904862488,"sku":"9781496219664","price":20.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-colonel-and-hug-the-partnership-that-transformed-the-new-york-yankees-paperback-softback-9781496219664","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}