Hank O’Day, Jacob Ruppert and Deacon White got in via the Veterans Committee. That year, former sluggers tied to performance-enhancing drugs crowded the ballot — Barry Bonds and Sammy Sosa ...

The origins of this practice trace back to 1929 when then-owner Jacob Ruppert introduced numbers on players’ jerseys. In the ...

In 1880 Jacob Ruppert, aged 13, was owner, manager, captain and second baseman of a baseball club. Son of a well-to-do Manhattan brewer with a home on Fifth Avenue, he made his players clean the ...

The conflict deteriorated into a stalemate. Colonel Jacob Ruppert, one of the Yankee owners, told the press that he had offered DiMaggio $25,000, "a very fair salary." Ruppert would not budge on ...

Two years later, Jacob Ruppert and Tillinghast L’Hommedieu Huston purchased the team for $1.25 million. Ruppert gained sole ownership in 1939 by acquiring Huston’s shares after his passing.

But the club remained lackluster for most of its first 17 seasons. In 1915, Colonels Jacob Ruppert and Tillinghast L'Hommedieu Huston purchased the team for $460,000 and three years later Miller ...