"A fascinating tale of one of baseball's greatest moments -- the emergence in 1923 of Babe Ruth and the Yankees... You're in for a rollicking good ride." -- Johnathan Eig, Pulitzer Prize-winning author

In 1923, the floundering Yankees didn't have to rent the Polo Grounds from their cross-town rivals, the New York Giants, anymore. They finally got their own field. The newly-built, state-of-the art baseball palace in the Bronx was called "the Yankee Stadium," and its outerborough location was a gamble. 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.

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.

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.

"May be the best book of baseball history I have ever read." -- New York Post

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