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...Manhattan, Col. Jacob Ruppert, owner of the New York Yankees, saw his pitcher Henry Johnson before the game, called Johnson over to exchange a word. Owner Ruppert received a reprimand from Umpire Hildebrand, but no fine...
Further notice that the 1932 season was about to start was provided by a long-anticipated ceremony in St. Petersburg, Fla. Colonel Jacob Ruppert, near-beer-brewing owner of the New York Yankees, conferred with his most celebrated employe, George Herman ("Babe") Ruth. After much palaver and publicity, Ruth signed a one-year contract for $75,000. Then he tossed a half-dollar into an imitation Spanish wishing well and went to play in a practice game against the Boston Braves, in which he failed to make...
...week, nobody knew for sure how Philip De Catesby Ball had been persuaded to drop his stubborn plan of revenge against Judge Landis. For dissuading him from a course of action which might have destroyed organized baseball, gossip credited Clark Griffith, part owner of the Washington "Senators," Colonel Jacob Ruppert, owner of the New York ''Yankees," and Robert Quinn, owner of the Boston...
Chain-publisher Paul Block sold the Newark Bears baseball club to Col. Jacob Ruppert, Manhattan brewer, owner of the New York Yankees...
...Young, mother of Owen D. Young, who hastened from Phoenix, Ariz, to her side (skull-fracture sustained in a fall downstairs) ; Cinemactor Harold Lloyd (appendectomy) ; Publisher William Howard Gannett of Augusta, Me. (hip-fracture from slipping on a gravel road); one-time Brewer Jacob ("Jake") Ruppert, owner of the New York American League baseball team (bronchitis, acute); Novelist James Joyce (waning eyesight, necessitating a third operation); Singer Mary Garden (bronchitis...