Babe's place : manuscript, [2010] : the lives of Yankee Stadium / by Michael Philip Wagner. [2010].

Yankee Stadium (New York, N.Y. : 1923-2009)

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Yankee Stadium was a stadium located in the Bronx, New York City. It was the home ballpark of the New York Yankees, one of the city's Major League Baseball franchises, from 1923 to 2008. It was also the former home of the New York Giants football team from 1956 through the first part of the 1973–74 football season. The stadium is nicknamed "The House That Ruth Built" since baseball superstar Babe Ruth's prime years coincided with the stadium's opening and the beginning of the Yankees' winning hi...

Wagner, Michael Philip.

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New York Yankees (Baseball team)

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The club that became the New York Yankees started as the Baltimore Orioles in 1901. American League President Ban Johnson wanted a club in New York and, after outmaneuvering the politically influential New York Giants, who did not want a competing team, Johnson moved the Orioles to New York. The first ten years of its existence, the team did not do well, contending for the pennant during only one season. In 1914, Colonel Jacob Ruppert and Tillinghast Huston purchased the team. This collection da...