Breaking the Slump: Baseball in the Depression Era

Charles C. Alexander

Paper, 352 pages, 15 photos
ISBN: 978-0-231-11343-4
$25.00 / £14.50

April, 2002
Cloth, 352 pages, 15 photos
ISBN: 978-0-231-11342-7
$75.50 / £44.50

I. Past Time

II. The Last Fat Year (1930)

III. Lean Years (1931-1932)

IV. The Leanest Year (1933)

V. New Deal Baseball (1934-1935)

VI. Toward Recovery (1936-1937)

VII. Pathos and Progress (1938-1939)

VIII. Baseball Lives

IX. Shadowball

X. Recovery and War (1940-1941)

Related Subjects

• American History

About the Author

Charles C. Alexander is Distinguished Professor of History at Ohio University. He is the author of the biographies Ty Cobb, John McGraw, and Rogers Hornsby, and of Our Game: An American Baseball History. He lives in Athens, Ohio.

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