Author: Steve Steinberg
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803284136
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book 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. With four winning seasons to date, the team was purchased in 1915 by Jacob Ruppert and his partner, Cap “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. 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. While Ruppert and Huggins had more than a little help from one of baseball’s greats, Babe Ruth, their close relationship has been overlooked in the Yankees’ rise to dominance. Though both were small of stature, the two men nonetheless became giants of the game with unassailable mutual trust and loyalty. The Colonel and Hug tells the story of how these two men transformed the Yankees. It also tells the larger story about baseball primarily in the tumultuous period from 1918 to 1929—with 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.
The Colonel and Hug
Author: Steve Steinberg
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803284136
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book 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. With four winning seasons to date, the team was purchased in 1915 by Jacob Ruppert and his partner, Cap “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. 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. While Ruppert and Huggins had more than a little help from one of baseball’s greats, Babe Ruth, their close relationship has been overlooked in the Yankees’ rise to dominance. Though both were small of stature, the two men nonetheless became giants of the game with unassailable mutual trust and loyalty. The Colonel and Hug tells the story of how these two men transformed the Yankees. It also tells the larger story about baseball primarily in the tumultuous period from 1918 to 1929—with 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.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803284136
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book 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. With four winning seasons to date, the team was purchased in 1915 by Jacob Ruppert and his partner, Cap “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. 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. While Ruppert and Huggins had more than a little help from one of baseball’s greats, Babe Ruth, their close relationship has been overlooked in the Yankees’ rise to dominance. Though both were small of stature, the two men nonetheless became giants of the game with unassailable mutual trust and loyalty. The Colonel and Hug tells the story of how these two men transformed the Yankees. It also tells the larger story about baseball primarily in the tumultuous period from 1918 to 1929—with 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.
The Colonel's Jewels
Author: Silva Kingstandish
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Bear Hug
Author: J. Wes Watson
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 9781479712335
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
At the end of WWII the two mightiest armies in history stood on opposite sides of the Elbe River in Germany, basking in their victory over Nazi Germany. But was that shooting war truly over? Joseph Stalin could not help but notice that by the time of their August, 1944, Conference in Potsdam, that both FDR and Churchill were no longer on the world stage, replaced by a “failed haberdasher”, Harry Truman, and a British Socialist, Clement Attlee. With the Allied armies depleting their European forces for the coming invasion of Japan, Stalin embarks on an ambitious plan to continue to roll westward, and complete the submission of all of Europe before the Allies can react to stop him. And with a brilliant plan he temporarily thwarts the Americans’ atomic bomb capability. It becomes a race and a struggle for a hodge-podge of Allied units, commanded by personal enemies George Patton and Bernard Montgomery, as the two generals try to patch up their differences. They try everything both in, and out, of the book, including using former German enemies to try to buy enough time to halt the Soviet onslaught.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 9781479712335
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
At the end of WWII the two mightiest armies in history stood on opposite sides of the Elbe River in Germany, basking in their victory over Nazi Germany. But was that shooting war truly over? Joseph Stalin could not help but notice that by the time of their August, 1944, Conference in Potsdam, that both FDR and Churchill were no longer on the world stage, replaced by a “failed haberdasher”, Harry Truman, and a British Socialist, Clement Attlee. With the Allied armies depleting their European forces for the coming invasion of Japan, Stalin embarks on an ambitious plan to continue to roll westward, and complete the submission of all of Europe before the Allies can react to stop him. And with a brilliant plan he temporarily thwarts the Americans’ atomic bomb capability. It becomes a race and a struggle for a hodge-podge of Allied units, commanded by personal enemies George Patton and Bernard Montgomery, as the two generals try to patch up their differences. They try everything both in, and out, of the book, including using former German enemies to try to buy enough time to halt the Soviet onslaught.
The Adventures of Bubba Jones
Author: Jeff Alt
Publisher: Beaufort Books
ISBN: 0825307155
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 135
Book Description
Tommy "Bubba Jones" and his sister Jenny "Hug-a-Bug" learn more about the Great Smoky Mountain National Park than they ever thought they would when Papa Lewis lets them in on a family secret: The family has legendary time traveling skills! With these abilities, Bubba Jones and Hug-a-Bug travel back in time and meet the park’s founders, its earliest settlers, native Cherokee Indians, wild animals, extinct creatures, and what the park was like millions of years ago. With this time traveling ability also comes a family mystery, but the only person who can help solve the mystery is a long lost relative who lives somewhere in the park. Explore the Smokies with Bubba Jones and family in a whole new way.
Publisher: Beaufort Books
ISBN: 0825307155
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 135
Book Description
Tommy "Bubba Jones" and his sister Jenny "Hug-a-Bug" learn more about the Great Smoky Mountain National Park than they ever thought they would when Papa Lewis lets them in on a family secret: The family has legendary time traveling skills! With these abilities, Bubba Jones and Hug-a-Bug travel back in time and meet the park’s founders, its earliest settlers, native Cherokee Indians, wild animals, extinct creatures, and what the park was like millions of years ago. With this time traveling ability also comes a family mystery, but the only person who can help solve the mystery is a long lost relative who lives somewhere in the park. Explore the Smokies with Bubba Jones and family in a whole new way.
He is Here
Author: John Brandon Keever
Publisher: Soul Searching Studios
ISBN: 1517273013
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Can an Iraq War Widow and a Breast Cancer Widower Fall in Love without Falling Apart? Sara lost her husband 4 years ago in the Iraq War. Jack lost his wife to breast cancer soon after they were married. Falling in Love again is the last thing on their minds. A chance meeting while volunteering at a local mission opens possibilities either before felt possible. Their lives are further intertwined when through their work at the mission; they meet a young teenage couple expecting a baby. How do you fall in love after you’ve lost the love of your life? There is Grace in Grief. Love Abounds in He is Here. Fall in Love again in He is Here.
Publisher: Soul Searching Studios
ISBN: 1517273013
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Can an Iraq War Widow and a Breast Cancer Widower Fall in Love without Falling Apart? Sara lost her husband 4 years ago in the Iraq War. Jack lost his wife to breast cancer soon after they were married. Falling in Love again is the last thing on their minds. A chance meeting while volunteering at a local mission opens possibilities either before felt possible. Their lives are further intertwined when through their work at the mission; they meet a young teenage couple expecting a baby. How do you fall in love after you’ve lost the love of your life? There is Grace in Grief. Love Abounds in He is Here. Fall in Love again in He is Here.
The Wonder Team
Author: Leo Trachtenberg
Publisher: Popular Press
ISBN: 9780879726782
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Details events leading to the 1927 World Series, when the New York Yankees, including Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Waite Hoyt, became baseball's best team ever. Draws on interviews with everyone connected to the team, from players and management to batboys, and relates stories concerning players' personalities, skills, and hijinks on and off the field. Includes 1927 statistics and biographical sketches of management, players, and staff, plus bandw photos. Paper edition (unseen), $13.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: Popular Press
ISBN: 9780879726782
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Details events leading to the 1927 World Series, when the New York Yankees, including Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Waite Hoyt, became baseball's best team ever. Draws on interviews with everyone connected to the team, from players and management to batboys, and relates stories concerning players' personalities, skills, and hijinks on and off the field. Includes 1927 statistics and biographical sketches of management, players, and staff, plus bandw photos. Paper edition (unseen), $13.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Kiss of the Black Rose
Author: C.A. Rose
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1647015251
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Carmen, Sister-heir of a wealthy manor, leaves her privileged life to honor her father\'s last request—-to save a code book. Iit implicates the priesthood in a plot to create a doomsday weapon and establish a theocracy. Desperate to protect the code book, Carmen allies with Aton, a mutant warrior with extra-sensory ability from a neighboring hostile land. His drive to provide a better life for his people earns Carmen\'s admiration as she sees the misery in his mythical lands. He\'s convinced their destiny is together, but she can\'t see a future with him, a hated mutant, a killer, unless he wins her heart.
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1647015251
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Carmen, Sister-heir of a wealthy manor, leaves her privileged life to honor her father\'s last request—-to save a code book. Iit implicates the priesthood in a plot to create a doomsday weapon and establish a theocracy. Desperate to protect the code book, Carmen allies with Aton, a mutant warrior with extra-sensory ability from a neighboring hostile land. His drive to provide a better life for his people earns Carmen\'s admiration as she sees the misery in his mythical lands. He\'s convinced their destiny is together, but she can\'t see a future with him, a hated mutant, a killer, unless he wins her heart.
The House That Ruth Built
Author: Robert Weintraub
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 031617517X
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
The untold story of Babe Ruth's Yankees, John McGraw's Giants, and the extraordinary baseball season of 1923. Before the 27 World Series titles -- before Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, and Derek Jeter -- the Yankees were New York's shadow franchise. They hadn't won a championship, and they didn't even have their own field, renting the Polo Grounds from their cross-town rivals the New York Giants. In 1921 and 1922, they lost to the Giants when it mattered most: in October. But in 1923, the Yankees played their first season on their own field, the newly-built, state of the art baseball palace in the Bronx called "the Yankee Stadium." The stadium was a gamble, erected in relative outerborough obscurity, and Babe Ruth was coming off the most disappointing season of his career, a season that saw his struggles on and off the field threaten his standing as a bona fide superstar. It only took Ruth two at-bats to signal a new era. He stepped up to the plate in the 1923 season opener and cracked a home run to deep right field, the first homer in his park, and a sign of what lay ahead. It was the initial blow in a season that saw the new stadium christened "The House That Ruth Built," signaled the triumph of the power game, and established the Yankees as New York's -- and the sport's -- team to beat. From that first home run of 1923 to the storybook World Series matchup that pitted the Yankees against their nemesis from across the Harlem River -- one so acrimonious that John McGraw forced his Giants to get to the Bronx in uniform rather than suit up at the Stadium -- Robert Weintraub vividly illuminates the singular year that built a classic stadium, catalyzed a franchise, cemented Ruth's legend, and forever changed the sport of baseball.
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 031617517X
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
The untold story of Babe Ruth's Yankees, John McGraw's Giants, and the extraordinary baseball season of 1923. Before the 27 World Series titles -- before Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, and Derek Jeter -- the Yankees were New York's shadow franchise. They hadn't won a championship, and they didn't even have their own field, renting the Polo Grounds from their cross-town rivals the New York Giants. In 1921 and 1922, they lost to the Giants when it mattered most: in October. But in 1923, the Yankees played their first season on their own field, the newly-built, state of the art baseball palace in the Bronx called "the Yankee Stadium." The stadium was a gamble, erected in relative outerborough obscurity, and Babe Ruth was coming off the most disappointing season of his career, a season that saw his struggles on and off the field threaten his standing as a bona fide superstar. It only took Ruth two at-bats to signal a new era. He stepped up to the plate in the 1923 season opener and cracked a home run to deep right field, the first homer in his park, and a sign of what lay ahead. It was the initial blow in a season that saw the new stadium christened "The House That Ruth Built," signaled the triumph of the power game, and established the Yankees as New York's -- and the sport's -- team to beat. From that first home run of 1923 to the storybook World Series matchup that pitted the Yankees against their nemesis from across the Harlem River -- one so acrimonious that John McGraw forced his Giants to get to the Bronx in uniform rather than suit up at the Stadium -- Robert Weintraub vividly illuminates the singular year that built a classic stadium, catalyzed a franchise, cemented Ruth's legend, and forever changed the sport of baseball.
Twin Memoirs
Author: Robert W. Parsons
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1640273727
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
The continuing saga of the DeMarco brothers begins with book 3 as they both struggle through college. The inheritance the twins received from some mystery man would not only bring change in their lives but also in the life of their mother. This event will forever change their future, their journey and their story. Years of intense study at college prepare the boys for this new global adventure. New people enter their lives which results in great friendships and eventually business associates. Book 4 continues as the DeMarco brothers run the gauntlets of Wounded Knee in the early '70s, the building of the town of Eagleton, Colorado high in a valley of the Rocky Mountains in the late '70s and the sky tower, the DeMarco international headquarters in downtown Denver being built in the early '80s. Several deaths occur, natural deaths, because we all grow old. But as one dies, others are birthed and the story of the brothers continue. Within the same family, to be quite honest and somewhat crude, out with the old and in with the new. More secrets are revealed, old friendships are reunited, challenges lie ahead, dreams come true and new adventures begin.
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1640273727
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
The continuing saga of the DeMarco brothers begins with book 3 as they both struggle through college. The inheritance the twins received from some mystery man would not only bring change in their lives but also in the life of their mother. This event will forever change their future, their journey and their story. Years of intense study at college prepare the boys for this new global adventure. New people enter their lives which results in great friendships and eventually business associates. Book 4 continues as the DeMarco brothers run the gauntlets of Wounded Knee in the early '70s, the building of the town of Eagleton, Colorado high in a valley of the Rocky Mountains in the late '70s and the sky tower, the DeMarco international headquarters in downtown Denver being built in the early '80s. Several deaths occur, natural deaths, because we all grow old. But as one dies, others are birthed and the story of the brothers continue. Within the same family, to be quite honest and somewhat crude, out with the old and in with the new. More secrets are revealed, old friendships are reunited, challenges lie ahead, dreams come true and new adventures begin.
The Cottoncrest Curse
Author: Michael H. Rubin
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807156205
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
The bodies of an elderly colonel and his comely young wife are discovered on the staircase of their stately plantation home, their blood still dripping down the wooden balustrades. Within the sheltered walls of Cottoncrest, Augustine and Rebecca Chastaine have met their deaths under the same shroud of mystery that befell the former owner, who had committed suicide at the end of the Civil War. Locals whisper about the curse of Cottoncrest Plantation, an otherworldly force that has now taken three lives. But Sheriff Raifer Jackson knows that even a specter needs a mortal accomplice, and after investigating the crime scene, he concludes that the apparent murder/suicide is a double homicide, with local peddler Jake Gold as the prime suspect. Assisted by his overzealous deputy, a grizzled Civil War physician, and the racist Knights of the White Camellia, the Sheriff directs a manhunt for Jake through a village of former slaves, the swamps of Cajun country, and the bordellos of New Orleans. But Jake's chameleon-like abilities enable him to elude his pursuers. As a peddler who has built relationships by trading fabric, needles, dry goods, and especially razor-sharp knives in exchange for fur, Jake knows the back roads of the small towns that dot the Mississippi River Delta. Additionally, his uncanny talent for languages allows him to pose as just another local, hiding his true identity as an immigrant Jew who fled Czarist-Russia. Michael H. Rubin's The Cottoncrest Curse takes readers on the bold journey of Jake's flight within an epic sweep of treachery and family rivalry ranging from the Civil War to the civil rights era, as the impact of the 1893 murders ripples through the twentieth century and violence besets the owners of Cottoncrest into the 1960s.
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807156205
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
The bodies of an elderly colonel and his comely young wife are discovered on the staircase of their stately plantation home, their blood still dripping down the wooden balustrades. Within the sheltered walls of Cottoncrest, Augustine and Rebecca Chastaine have met their deaths under the same shroud of mystery that befell the former owner, who had committed suicide at the end of the Civil War. Locals whisper about the curse of Cottoncrest Plantation, an otherworldly force that has now taken three lives. But Sheriff Raifer Jackson knows that even a specter needs a mortal accomplice, and after investigating the crime scene, he concludes that the apparent murder/suicide is a double homicide, with local peddler Jake Gold as the prime suspect. Assisted by his overzealous deputy, a grizzled Civil War physician, and the racist Knights of the White Camellia, the Sheriff directs a manhunt for Jake through a village of former slaves, the swamps of Cajun country, and the bordellos of New Orleans. But Jake's chameleon-like abilities enable him to elude his pursuers. As a peddler who has built relationships by trading fabric, needles, dry goods, and especially razor-sharp knives in exchange for fur, Jake knows the back roads of the small towns that dot the Mississippi River Delta. Additionally, his uncanny talent for languages allows him to pose as just another local, hiding his true identity as an immigrant Jew who fled Czarist-Russia. Michael H. Rubin's The Cottoncrest Curse takes readers on the bold journey of Jake's flight within an epic sweep of treachery and family rivalry ranging from the Civil War to the civil rights era, as the impact of the 1893 murders ripples through the twentieth century and violence besets the owners of Cottoncrest into the 1960s.