TY - BOOK ID - 78718743 TI - The Colonel and Hug AU - Steinberg, Steve AU - Spatz, Lyle PY - 2015 SN - 0803284136 0803284152 9780803284159 9780803248656 0803248652 9780803284135 9780803284142 PB - Lincoln DB - UniCat KW - Huggins, Miller, KW - Ruppert, Jacob, KW - New York Yankees (Baseball team) KW - Yankees (Baseball team) KW - Bronx Bombers (Baseball team) KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78718743 AB - From the team's inception in 1903, the New York Yankees were a floundering group that played as second-class citizens to the New York Giants. With four winning seasons to date, the team was purchased in 1915 by Jacob Ruppert and his partner, Cap "Til" Huston. Three years later, when Ruppert hired Miller Huggins as manager, the unlikely partnership of the two figures began, one that set into motion the Yankees' run as the dominant baseball franchise of the 1920s and the rest of the twentieth century, capturing six American League pennants with Huggins at the helm and four more during Ruppert's ER -