Jazz Age Giant: Charles A. Stoneham and New York City Baseball in the Roaring Twenties Garratt Robert F.
Jazz Age Giant: Charles A. Stoneham and New York City Baseball in the Roaring Twenties Garratt Robert F. In the early 1920s, when the New York Yankees' first dynasty was taking shape, they were…
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Jazz Age Giant: Charles A. Stoneham and New York City Baseball in the Roaring Twenties Garratt Robert F.
In the early 1920s, when the New York Yankees' first dynasty was taking shape, they were outplayed by their local rival, the New York Giants. Remarkably, the Giants succeeded despite a dysfunctional and unmanageable front office. Led by manager John McGraw the Giants won four consecutive National League pennants and two World Series, both against the rival Yankees.
Stoneham, who had purchased the Giants for $1 million in 1919, the largest amount ever paid for an American sports team.Short, stout, and jowly, Charlie Stoneham embodied a Jazz Age stereotype--a business and sporting man by day, he led another life by night. And at the center of the turmoil was one of baseball's more improbable figures: club president Charles A. He threw lavish parties, lived extravagantly, and was often chronicled in the city tabloids.
Little is known about how he came to be one of the most successful