The House That Ruth Built - A New Stadium, the First Yankees Championship, and the Redemption of 1923
Language: English
Published by Little Brown & Co, New York, 2011
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- Title
- The House That Ruth Built - A New Stadium, the First Yankees Championship, and the Redemption of 1923
- Author
- WEINTRAUB, ROBERT
- Publisher
- Little Brown & Co, New York
- Publication year
- 2011
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Hard Cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 031608607X
- ISBN 13
- 9780316086073
- Edition
- First Edition, First printing.
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- Baseball
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.
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About the Author
Robert Weintraub is a writer living in Decatur, Georgia. He is a sports columnist for Slate, and his writing has appeared in ESPN.com, Play, The Guardian, and many others, and aired on ESPN, Turner Broadcasting, ABC Sports, Discovery, and dozens of other outlets.
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