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    Jacob Ruppert Jr. (August 5, 1867 – January 13, 1939) was an American brewer, businessman, National Guard colonel and politician who served for four terms...
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  • The Jacob Ruppert Sr. House was a large mansion located on 1115 Fifth Avenue (now 1119 Fifth Avenue) on the southeast corner of East 93rd Street and Fifth...
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    Yankees. On January 29, 1915, Farrell and Devery sold the Yankees to Jacob Ruppert and Tillinghast L'Hommedieu Huston for $460,000. Farrell died in Atlantic...
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    and moved to New York in 1903. Jacob Ruppert and Tillinghast L'Hommedieu Huston purchased the Yankees in 1915, and Ruppert bought out Huston in 1922. Dan...
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    sold the team to Colonel Jacob Ruppert, a brewer, and Captain Tillinghast L'Hommedieu Huston, a contractor-engineer. Ruppert and Huston paid $350,000...
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    team in 1937, the stadium was renamed Ruppert Stadium in honor of the Yankees' owner, Col. Jacob Ruppert. Ruppert died two years later and the stadium...
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    needed] The Yankees dedicated a plaque on the center field fence for Jacob Ruppert in 1940 and similar monuments for Lou Gehrig in 1941 and Babe Ruth in...
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    businessman. He co-owned the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball with Jacob Ruppert from 1915 to 1923, turning them from one of the worst franchises in...
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  • Ruppert is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: Jacob Ruppert, National Guard colonel, U.S. Representative from New...
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  • 146°31'W to 136°50'W. It was named by R. Admiral Richard Byrd for Col. Jacob Ruppert of New York, a supporter of the second Byrd Antarctic Expedition (1933–1935)...
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    refer specifically to the core of the 1927 Yankee hitting lineup. Owner Jacob Ruppert is the man most often credited with building the team, although general...
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  • business was sold to Jacob Ruppert, Sr. (1842–1915) in 1914 for $700,000. Ruppert died soon after and left the business to Jacob Ruppert, Jr. The plan was...
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    2023 dollars). Its construction was paid for entirely by Yankees owner Jacob Ruppert, who was eager to have his own stadium after sharing the Polo Grounds...
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  • post-career ambition of managing a baseball team, but Yankees owner Colonel Jacob Ruppert decides to release him instead. Under the promise of becoming a manager...
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  • join the syndicate attempting to purchase the team from the estate of Jacob Ruppert. Along with Del Webb, the group purchased a 96.88% interest in the Yankees...
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    Farrell-Devery ownership era. For $300K, they sold the team in 1915 to Jacob Ruppert Jr. and Tillinghast L' Hommedieu Huston. He died on June 20, 1919, at...
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  • Quinn Regarding Henry (1991) as Charlie Cameron Babe Ruth (1991) as Jacob Ruppert Housesitter (1992) as George Davis Love, Cheat & Steal (1993) as Frank...
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  • Football League in 1926. In January 1932, the stadium was renamed for Jacob Ruppert, a baseball team owner who built the farm system of the New York Yankees...
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    gave the name of the locally-brewed "Knickerbocker Beer" brewed by Jacob Ruppert and the first sponsors of the TV show Tonight!, hence the gossip columnist...
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    Great Depression in part to a deal made with New York Yankees owner Jacob Ruppert to house his team during spring training for three years. However, after...
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    him to the then-moribund Yankees. Johnson had promised Yankee owners Jacob Ruppert and Cap Huston to get them better players, but never followed through...
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  • Manager Miller Huggins, Team President Ed Barrow and Owner Colonel Jacob Ruppert. With the race long since decided, the nation's attention turned to...
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  • Serge Rubinstein – stock and currency manipulator and murder victim Jacob Ruppert – brewer Nawwaf bin Abdulaziz Al Saud – Saudi royal Lily Safra – philanthropist...
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  • uniforms in 1912, then re-added them on a permanent basis soon after Jacob Ruppert bought the team in 1915. In 1929, the New York Yankees became the first...
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    Era Committee: player Deacon White, umpire Hank O'Day, and executive Jacob Ruppert, all of whom died in the 1930s. As was the case following the 1965 election–which...
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    Rand (1905–1982), author, philosopher, playwright and screenwriter Jacob Ruppert (1867–1939), owner of the New York Yankees Soupy Sales (1926–2009),...
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    Present) Overridden by the Senate and became law on October 28, 1919 (65-20) United States Supreme Court cases Jacob Ruppert v. Caffey, 251 U.S. 264 (1920)...
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    derived their name from this character. It also inspired a beer brand by Jacob Ruppert, the first sponsors of the TV show Tonight!. Igor Cassini, a gossip...
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    since Babe Ruth's arrival in 1920, which did not sit well with owner Jacob Ruppert. McCarthy was told that he had three years to win a championship. He...
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    today? Sure, I'm lucky. Who wouldn't consider it an honor to have known Jacob Ruppert? Also, the builder of baseball's greatest empire, Ed Barrow? To have...
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