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Died. Colonel Jacob Ruppert, 71, multimillionaire president of Ruppert Brewing Co., since 1915 owner of the world champion New York Yankees; after long illness; in Manhattan...
Last week baseball fans suddenly realized that the 71-year-old Emperor of the Yankee Empire was gravely ill. In their papers they read that Babe Ruth, long estranged from the colonel, had gone to his bedside for a touching reunion. Next morning death came to Jacob Ruppert...
...sensation caused by this unheard-of price made Jacob Ruppert a magic name in baseball. In 1923, after a squabble, he bought out Partner Huston for $1,200,000. Same year he opened the $2,500,000 Yankee Stadium. He paid record salaries ($80,000 to Babe Ruth one season), built up the most extensive, most expensive chain of farm teams in the country...
...Yankees made the other clubs in the League look like seven dwarfs. Since 1921 they have won ten pennants, seven world championships. They won pennants as he wanted them to-early in the season. They won World Series in four straight games. The sport-pages' nickname Owner Ruppert liked best was "Four Straight Jake...
Last October, Colonel Ruppert did not see the World Series. Ill with phlebitis (inflammation of the veins), he listened at his radio, beamed with joy as he heard his beloved Yankees annihilate the Chicago Cubs in four straight victories. The colonel was as pleased as Punch. His Yankees were toasted as the greatest team in baseball history, the only outfit that ever won three World Series in a row. His farm teams, too, were tops. Of his 14 minor-league teams, eight won their pennants, one took the Little World Series, and four others got into playoffs...