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The House That Ruth Built - A New Stadium, the First Yankees Championship, and the Redemption of 1923 (Paperback)
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The House That Ruth Built - A New Stadium, the First Yankees Championship, and the Redemption of 1923 (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 5 910
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"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.
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