Impact of Great Depression on Baseball

Impact of Great Depression on Baseball Times were good, enlargements had created a larger, much strong league. Money flowed from numerous sources as owners and players intensified salaries to new heights. The biggest and best were stars. Then the markets fell and fell. The banks unsuccessful, people found work harder and harder to come by. Governments required ways to bail out their citizens, much of it to no consequence. This is not this present-day, but the era of the 1930s. The roaring '20s proverb professional sports extent levels of national concern. Major League Baseball went from a local sport to a game of Ruth, Gehrig, Mack, and John McGraw. Despite the enormous admiration of baseball in the 1920s, the 16 teams that made up the major leagues then were not insulated from hard times. Attendance dropped 40 percent from 1930 to 1933 and did not yield to pre-Depression levels 'til after World War II, when millions of soldiers returned. Rend...

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