Breaking the slump
Subtitle: baseball in the Depression Era
By: Charles C. Alexander
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
Subjects: Baseball -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Description: "Breaking the Slump is the story of baseball during the 1930s when the National Pastime came of age as a business, an entertainment, and a passion, and when the teams of the American and National Leagues fielded perhaps the greatest rosters in the history of the game.

Whether as rookies, stars in their prime, or legends on the wane, Babe Ruth, Rogers Hornsby, Lou Gehrig, Hank Greenberg, Dizzy Dean, Ted Williams, and Joe DiMaggio all left their mark on the game and on the American imagination in the decade before America's entry into World War II. In one remarkable year, 1934, the entire starting lineup of the American League All-Stars consisted of future Hall of Famers.

This surfeit of talent provided much-needed entertainment to a nation struggling through economic hardship on an enormous scale."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-313) and index