Word: ruppert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jacob Ruppert...
...before, spectators had fist-fought players, managers and umpires had argued for two hours over a doubtful catch by the Millers' center fielder, Harry Rice. which, had it been allowed, might have won the game for Minneapolis and cost Col. Jacob Ruppert, owner of the Bears and the New York Yankees, his second World Series of the year...
Fourth Game, Colonel Jacob Ruppert, the 65-year-old bon vivant who owns the Yankees, cannot bear his team to lose, cannot bear to watch a close game, let alone a close World Series. Even to win in four straight games is too close for him until the fourth game is won. He begged his men to win last Sunday and end his terrible suspense. The Yankees obliged with all the trimmings...
Chicago had torn Col. Ruppert's heartstrings with four runs in the first inning off young pitcher Johnny Allen. After that the rumble and crash of Yankee bats made 17 hits, discouraged four Chicago pitchers. In the first, the side-whiskered Bush was knocked out of the box; in the third. Lazzeri smashed a homerun over the right field bleacher screen scoring two runs; in the sixth. Gehrig singled for two runs; in the seventh five hits made four more runs; and in the ninth, when the Yankees were four runs ahead, they made four more, two on Lazzeri...
Little World Series, In Minneapolis, Col. Ruppert's Newark Bears, pennant winners in the International League, drew even in the Little World Series by winning the fourth game, 5 to 2, against the Minneapolis Millers, American Association pennant winners. The day before, four trunks containing Bear uniforms and equipment were pushed off the Bears' train by one W. J. Chipman, who was riding illegally in the baggage car and said he needed more room...