Jacob Ruppert and Cap Huston Quotes

"The world of Colonel Ruppert and Colonel Huston may have overlapped that of [Frank] Farrell and [Bill] Devery, but only at the margins. The two colonels’ horizons were broader, their connections more respectable, their businesses emphatically legitimate."

Source	Author	Publisher	Date	Page
Taking On The Yankees: Winning And Losing In The Business Of Baseball	Henry D. Fetter	New York: W.W. Norton & Company	2003	29

"Huston was rumpled and round, had a big voice and a big laugh and a fondness for the product that came from Ruppert’s brewery."

Source	Author	Publisher	Date	Page
The Big Bam	Leigh Montville	New York: Doubleday	2006	94

"Both Ruppert and Huston were independently wealthy. Together, they were filthy rich"

Source	Author	Publisher	Date	Page
Yankees Century	Glenn Stout	Boston: Houghton Mifflin	2002	63

"I shall not start with a tail-end team and try to make a pennant winner out of it. I have made up my mind what to do if it is agreed to give me five new players and a manager." — Jacob Ruppert upon purchasing the Yankees

Source	Author	Date
New York Times		December 19, 1914

"For $450,000 we got an orphan ball club without a home of its own, without players of outstanding ability, without prestige.” — Jacob Ruppert

Source	Author	Date
New York Times		January 14, 1939