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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacob-ruppert/captain-huston-and-myself-have-spent-over-200-000-in-strengthening/)

[Jacob Ruppert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacob-ruppert/)

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## More by Jacob Ruppert

> [Baseball is a little bigger gamble than most, and the stakes are pretty high.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacob-ruppert/baseball-is-a-little-bigger-gamble-than-most-and-the-stakes-are/)

[Jacob Ruppert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacob-ruppert/)

> [It would be impossible for me to say when the idea of becoming an owner first came to me. Probably it was a gradual…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacob-ruppert/it-would-be-impossible-for-me-to-say-when-the-idea-of-becoming-an/)

[Jacob Ruppert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacob-ruppert/)

> [I was always interested in baseball. In fact, in my younger years, I played it in an amateur way. But up to the time…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacob-ruppert/i-was-always-interested-in-baseball-in-fact-in-my-younger-years-i/)

[Jacob Ruppert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacob-ruppert/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacob-ruppert/captain-huston-and-myself-have-spent-over-200-000-in-strengthening/)

[Jacob Ruppert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacob-ruppert/)

> [It was in the open market that we found Joe DiMaggio with the San Francisco Seals. A bad knee had scared everybody else off…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacob-ruppert/it-was-in-the-open-market-that-we-found-joe-dimaggio-with-the-san/)

[Jacob Ruppert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacob-ruppert/)

> [For several years, I have had my eye on second baseman Del Pratt of St. Louis. I cannot say that he is a better…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacob-ruppert/for-several-years-i-have-had-my-eye-on-second-baseman-del-pratt-of-st/)

[Jacob Ruppert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacob-ruppert/)

> [When I was thirty and perhaps forty, I did not want a wife. It was too much fun being single.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacob-ruppert/when-i-was-thirty-and-perhaps-forty-i-did-not-want-a-wife-it-was-too/)

[Jacob Ruppert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacob-ruppert/)

> [In the American League, there seems to have been an entire lack of any concerted campaign to build up a club in New York…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacob-ruppert/in-the-american-league-there-seems-to-have-been-an-entire-lack-of-any/)

[Jacob Ruppert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacob-ruppert/)

> [When I was a boy, I had a baseball team of my own. We played on a vacant lot between Ninetieth and Ninety-second streets.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacob-ruppert/when-i-was-a-boy-i-had-a-baseball-team-of-my-own-we-played-on-a/)

[Jacob Ruppert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacob-ruppert/)

> [The first intimation I had that the Yankees were for sale was through an item to that effect in the newspapers. The idea instantly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacob-ruppert/the-first-intimation-i-had-that-the-yankees-were-for-sale-was-through/)

[Jacob Ruppert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacob-ruppert/)

> [Yankee Stadium is a mistake: Not mine - the Giants'.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacob-ruppert/yankee-stadium-is-a-mistake-not-mine-the-giants/)

[Jacob Ruppert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacob-ruppert/)

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