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Jacob Ruppert
Jacob Ruppert
American Businessman
Born: Aug 5, 1867
Died: Jan 13, 1939
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When I was thirty and perhaps forty, I did not want a wife. It was too much fun being single. Jacob Ruppert
Wife Too Much Single Thirty Too Perhaps Did Being Want Much Forty Fun
It was in the open market that we found Joe DiMaggio with the San Francisco Seals. A bad knee had scared everybody else off DiMaggio. But we risked $25,000 in cash and five players, and landed a star whom I would not sell for $250,000. Jacob Ruppert
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It would be impossible for me to say when the idea of becoming an owner first came to me. Probably it was a gradual process. The first time the matter was brought to my attention in a concrete form, however, was when Charles Murphy was selling out his controlling interest in the Chicago Cubs. Jacob Ruppert
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The first intimation I had that the Yankees were for sale was through an item to that effect in the newspapers. The idea instantly occurred to me that here was a prospect to become interested in a major-league club at home. Jacob Ruppert
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In the American League, there seems to have been an entire lack of any concerted campaign to build up a club in New York which should rival the Giants on an even basis. Jacob Ruppert
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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 players who couldn't deliver the goods. And we have had some of the most frightful luck I ever heard of. Jacob Ruppert
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Yankee Stadium is a mistake: Not mine - the Giants'. Jacob Ruppert
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