Wins, Losses, and Empty Seats: How Baseball Outlasted the Great Depression

by David George Surdam

Book Overview

Organized baseball has survived its share of difficult times, and never was the state of the game more imperiled than during the Great Depression. Or was it? Remarkably, during the economic upheavals of the Depression none of the sixteen Major League Baseball teams folded or moved. In this economist's look at the sport as a business between 1929 and 1941, David George Surdam argues that although it was a very tough decade for baseball, the downturn...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803271794
• ISBN13: 9780803271791
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 446 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.5" x 8.4"