{"product_id":"the-house-that-ruth-built-9780316086080","title":"The House That Ruth Built","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe untold story of Babe Ruth's Yankees, John McGraw's Giants, and the extraordinary baseball season of 1923.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Before the 27 World Series titles -- before Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, and Derek Jeter -- the Yankees were New York's shadow franchise. They hadn't won a championship, and they didn't even have their own field, renting the Polo Grounds from their cross-town rivals the New York Giants. In 1921 and 1922, they lost to the Giants when it mattered most: in October. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e But in 1923, the Yankees played their first season on their own field, the newly-built, state of the art baseball palace in the Bronx called \"the Yankee Stadium.\" The stadium was a gamble, erected in relative outerborough obscurity, and Babe Ruth was coming off the most disappointing season of his career, a season that saw his struggles on and off the field threaten his standing as a bona fide superstar. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e It only took Ruth two at-bats to signal a new era. He stepped up to the plate in the 1923 season opener and cracked a home run to deep right field, the first homer in his park, and a sign of what lay ahead. It was the initial blow in a season that saw the new stadium christened \"The House That Ruth Built,\" signaled the triumph of the power game, and established the Yankees as New York's -- and the sport's -- team to beat. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e From that first home run of 1923 to the storybook World Series matchup that pitted the Yankees against their nemesis from across the Harlem River -- one so acrimonious that John McGraw forced his Giants to get to the Bronx in uniform rather than suit up at the Stadium -- Robert Weintraub vividly illuminates the singular year that built a classic stadium, catalyzed a franchise, cemented Ruth's legend, and forever changed the sport of baseball.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown Paperbacks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51391708397873,"sku":"9780316086080","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0787\/2420\/2801\/files\/O_534ea9d8-ac07-4634-a43c-0a52d4e161c3.jpg?v=1773817351","url":"https:\/\/pageaday.com\/products\/the-house-that-ruth-built-9780316086080","provider":"Page-A-Day","version":"1.0","type":"link"}