From Admiral Byrd’s S. S. Jacob Ruppert at 68° South Latitude, 124° West Longitude: “This morning we picked up our first penguins. . . . The cry ‘Penguins’ brought men to the rail from ...

Who owns the Yankees Organization? The New York Yankees are primarily owned by the Steinbrenner family, through their company ...

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 ...

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 ...

The few that did—Tom Girdler, Alvan Macauley, J. J. Pelley, Jacob Ruppert—were qualifiedly optimistic. Only Thomas J. Watson, president of International Business Machines Corp. pulled out all ...