It was in the open market that we found Joe DiMaggio with the San Francisco Seals. A bad knee had scared everybody… — Jacob Ruppert Copy Share Image
Baseball is a little bigger gamble than most, and the stakes are pretty high. — Jacob Ruppert Copy Share Image
It would be impossible for me to say when the idea of becoming an owner first came to me. Probably it was a gradual… — Jacob Ruppert Copy Share Image
I was always interested in baseball. In fact, in my younger years, I played it in an amateur way. But up to the time… — Jacob Ruppert Copy Share Image
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… — Jacob Ruppert Copy Share Image
It was in the open market that we found Joe DiMaggio with the San Francisco Seals. A bad knee had scared everybody else off… — Jacob Ruppert Copy Share Image
For several years, I have had my eye on second baseman Del Pratt of St. Louis. I cannot say that he is a better… — Jacob Ruppert Copy Share Image
When I was thirty and perhaps forty, I did not want a wife. It was too much fun being single. — Jacob Ruppert Copy Share Image
In the American League, there seems to have been an entire lack of any concerted campaign to build up a club in New York… — Jacob Ruppert Copy Share Image
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.… — Jacob Ruppert Copy Share Image
The first intimation I had that the Yankees were for sale was through an item to that effect in the newspapers. The idea instantly… — Jacob Ruppert Copy Share Image
