Wins, Losses, and Empty Seats : How Baseball Outlasted the Great Depression
- Author
- Surdam, David G. (David George)
- Published
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2011.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (446 pages)
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- Contents
- Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Prologue: Clash of Titans; Part 1. The Financial Side of the Game; 1. The American Economy and the State of Baseball Profits; 2. Why Did Profits Collapse?: The Revenue Side; 3. Why Did Profits Collapse?: Player Salaries and Other Expenses; 4. Farm Systems; Conclusion of Economic Side; Part 2. The Game on the Field; 5. Competitive Balance; 6. Player Movement; Part 3. Using League Rules to Aid in the Recovery; 7. Helping the Indigent; 8. Manipulating the Schedule to Increase Revenue. and Part 4. Innovations to Boost Attendance and Profits9. Radio and Baseball; 10. Baseball Under the Lights; 11. Other Innovations; 12. How Effective Were the Innovations?; 13. The Inept and the Restless: Franchise Relocation; Epilogue: The End of an Era; Appendix 1: Radio and Sunday Ball's Effect on Attendance; Appendix 2: Dramatis Personae; Appendix of Tables; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
- Summary
- An economic history of baseball during the Depression.
- Subject(s)
- Baseball—Economic aspects—United States
- Baseball
- Major League Baseball (Organization)—Finance
- Major League Baseball (Organization)
- Sport and Recreation
- Base-ball—Aspect économique—États-Unis
- Base-ball
- Baseball (field sport)
- SPORTS & RECREATION—Baseball—Essays & Writings
- SPORTS & RECREATION—Baseball—History
- SPORTS & RECREATION—Baseball—Statistics
- Baseball—Economic aspects
- United States
- ISBN
- 9780803235953 (electronic bk.)
080323595X (electronic bk.)
1283146401
9781283146401
9780803234826 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0803234821 (cloth ; alk. paper) - Digital File Characteristics
- data file
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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