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Wins, Losses, and Empty Seats: How Baseball Outlasted the Great Depression
David George Surdam
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Description for Wins, Losses, and Empty Seats: How Baseball Outlasted the Great Depression
hardcover. An economic history of baseball in America during the Great Depression. Num Pages: 448 pages, 38 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; WSJT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 38. Weight in Grams: 703.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803234826
SKU
V9780803234826
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Ref
99-21
About David George Surdam
David George Surdam is an associate professor of economics at the University of Northern Iowa. He is the author of The Postwar Yankees: Baseball’s Golden Age Revisited (Nebraska 2008) and Northern Naval Superiority and the Economics of the American Civil War.
Reviews for Wins, Losses, and Empty Seats: How Baseball Outlasted the Great Depression
“Surdam’s book represents the best and probably the only solid study of major-league baseball’s economic situation during the Depression.”—Dorothy Seymour Mills, New York Journal of Books “With the American economy struggling, major-league baseball attendance falling for the fourth consecutive year and the Los Angeles Dodgers in bankruptcy, David George Surdam’s Wins, Losses, and Empty Seats about the game's Depression-era troubles ... Read more