Wins, Losses, and Empty Seats
How Baseball Outlasted the Great Depression
David George Surdam
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Description
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 didn’t happen immediately. The 1930 season, after the stock market crash, had record attendance. But by 1931 attendance began to fall rapidly, plummeting 40 percent by 1933.

- $39.99
- Category: Baseball
- Published: Jun 01, 2011
- Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
- Seller: The Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska
- Print Length: 445 Pages
- Language: English
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