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Old 09-14-2010, 08:09 PM
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Charles Stoneham is a reluctant party to the "conspiracy". Ther are two bigger names involved.


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Charles Stoneham is a reluctant party to the "conspiracy". Ther are two bigger names involved.


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Huston and Ruppert?
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Maybe John Mcgraw was involved?
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Doug and Peter

OK, here's my understanding of the events...circa 1920 - 1923.

The Yankees, with the acquisition of Babe Ruth in 1920, significantly outdrew the Giants at the Polo Grounds.
This drove McGraw "nuts" with envy. That year, Ban Johnson, John McGraw, and Charles Stoneham "ban-ded"
(excuse the pun) together to force the Yankees to leave New York and move to Boston.

Fortunately, this attempt was aborted. A motivated Colonel Huston and Jake Ruppert in May 1921 purchased
a property in the Bronx to lay the groundwork for a Stadium that would exceed the capacity (60,000 seats)
of the Roman Colosseum. A year later construction started and on Opening Day 1923 Yankee Stadium opened
its gates to the public.


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That's really interesting. I could only imagine how heated the Red Sox/Yankees rivalry would be like if they were both in Boston!
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That's really interesting. I could only imagine how heated the Red Sox/Yankees rivalry would be like if they were both in Boston!
Interesting thought! Maybe New York could support 3 teams back then but it is doubtful Boston could have if this went down. The Red Sox probably would not have made it out of the 20's trying to compete with old friend and now established Mega Star, the Babe.
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That gave me another idea. If the Yankees moved to Boston and they couldn't support both teams would we have ended up with the San Francisco Red Sox eventually?
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Huston and Ruppert certainly were the guys who made it happen.

They were the ones who reacted constructively to the "eviction".

The "rest of the story" is still out there ? ?


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McGraw was one of the suspects.

He was green with envy of the Yankees significantly out-drawing his Giants at the Polo Ground and the huge fan attraction that Ruth was.


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Since I ran out of real guesses I'm just going to assume that the two bigger names involved were the devil and the super devil after watching this : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29khj...eature=related
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