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No Money, No Beer, No Pennants - The Cleveland Indians and Baseball in the Great Depression (Paperback)
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No Money, No Beer, No Pennants - The Cleveland Indians and Baseball in the Great Depression (Paperback)
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Loot Price R567
Discovery Miles 5 670
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The Cleveland Indians of 1928 were a far cry from the championship
team of 1920. They had begun the decade as the best team in all of
baseball, but over the following eight years, their owner died, the
great Tris Speaker retired in the face of a looming scandal, and
the franchise was in terrible shape. Seeing opportunity in the
upheaval, Cleveland real estate mogul Alva Bradley purchased the
ball club in 1927, infused it with cash, and filled its roster with
star players such as Bob Feller, Earl Averill, and Hal Trosky. He
aligned himself with civic leaders to push for a gigantic new
stadium that-along with the team that played in it-would be the
talk of the baseball world. Then came the stock market crash of
1929. Municipal Stadium was built, despite the collapse of the
industrial economy in Rust Belt cities, but the crowds did not
follow. Always the shrewd businessman, Bradley had engineered a
lease agreement with the city of Cleveland that included an out
clause, and he exercised that option after the 1934 season, leaving
the 80,000-seat, multimillion-dollar stadium without a tenant. In
No Money, No Beer, No Pennants, Scott H. Longert gives us a lively
history of the ups and downs of a legendary team and its iconic
players as they persevered through internal unrest and the turmoil
of the Great Depression, pursuing a pennant that didn't come until
1948. Illustrated with period photographs and filled with anecdotes
of the great players, this book will delight fans of baseball and
fans of Cleveland.
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