On an October night in 1918, one month after Babe Ruth led the Boston Red Sox to a World Series victory, a successful New York stockbroker named Charles Stoneham came home with some unusual news for his 15-year-old son Horace. “Horrie,” he said, “I bought you a ball club.”
The team was the New York Giants, a prestigious franchise even then, and when Charles Stoneham died in 1936, Horace became the youngest owner in baseball. He promptly set his sights on winning the World Series, which was an elusive quest, and not just for the Giants. New York City had three major league teams then, and one of them, the Yankees, played in the World Series nearly every year (and would win it in 12 of the next 16 seasons).
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