The House That Ruth Built
A New Stadium, the First Yankees Championship, and the Redemption of 1923

There are few things better than reading a good baseball book, and The House That Ruth Built is certainly that. While the construction of "the Yankee Stadium" is the centerpiece of the story, like any good historian, author Robert Weintraub tells us everything that lead up to the creation of the sta......more

Easily one of the best pieces of non-fiction I've ever read.......more

It is easy to forget that there was a time in Major League Baseball when the Yankees were the new franchise in The Big Apple. Not only that, but they were considered second fiddle to the Giants, unable to win the World Series and saddled with a "star" who choked in the big moments. Babe Ruth had com......more

"The House That Ruth Built" was structured in a way to basically highlight the rivalry between Yankee slugger Babe Ruth and New York Giants manager John McGraw. The attitudes that McGraw had towards the Yankees and their new location in the Bronx was fascinating and McGraw's predictions for Yankee (......more

I've been meaning to get to this one for a while. I've always been fascinated with the location of Yankee Stadium and wanted to know how it got built (and why). I also wanted to learn more about those old John McGraw New York Giants, baseball legends who have been memoryholed as deadball era thugs u......more