Jacob Ruppert

Baseball is a little bigger gamble than most, and the stakes are pretty high.

— Jacob Ruppert

It would be impossible for me to say when the idea of becoming an owner first came to me. Probably it was…

— Jacob Ruppert

I was always interested in baseball. In fact, in my younger years, I played it in an amateur way. But up to…

— 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…

— Jacob Ruppert

It was in the open market that we found Joe DiMaggio with the San Francisco Seals. A bad knee had scared everybody…

— Jacob Ruppert

For several years, I have had my eye on second baseman Del Pratt of St. Louis. I cannot say that he is…

— Jacob Ruppert

When I was thirty and perhaps forty, I did not want a wife. It was too much fun being single.

— Jacob Ruppert

In the American League, there seems to have been an entire lack of any concerted campaign to build up a club in…

— Jacob Ruppert

When I was a boy, I had a baseball team of my own. We played on a vacant lot between Ninetieth and…

— Jacob Ruppert

The first intimation I had that the Yankees were for sale was through an item to that effect in the newspapers. The…

— Jacob Ruppert

Yankee Stadium is a mistake: Not mine - the Giants'.

— Jacob Ruppert