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      No Money, No Beer, No Pennants

       NO MONEY, NO BEER, NO PENNANTS

      The Cleveland Indians and Baseball in the Great Depression

      Scott H. Longert

      Ohio University Press

      Athens

      Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio 45701

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      © 2016 by Scott H. Longert

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       Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Longert, Scott, author.

      Title: No money, no beer, no pennants : the Cleveland Indians and baseball in the great depression / Scott H. Longert.

      Description: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2016026044| ISBN 9780821422434 (hardback) | ISBN 9780821422441 (pb) | ISBN 9780821445853 (pdf)

      Subjects: LCSH: Cleveland Indians (Baseball team)—History—20th century. | Depressions—1929—United States. | BISAC: SPORTS & RECREATION / History. | SPORTS & RECREATION / Baseball / History.

      Classification: LCC GV875.C7 L685 2016 | DDC 796.357/640977132

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016026044

       CONTENTS

       List of Illustrations

       Prologue

       Chapter 1. Change of the Guard

       Chapter 2. Starting to Build

       Chapter 3. The Vote Is Yes

       Chapter 4. Trouble Ahead

       Chapter 5. An Improved Ball Club

       Chapter 6. A Homegrown Star

       Chapter 7. Grand New Stadium

       Chapter 8. The Big Train Comes to Town

       Chapter 9. Return to 66th and Lexington

       Chapter 10. Goodbye to Walter

       Chapter 11. A Teenage Hero

       Sources

       Index

       ILLUSTRATIONS

       Following Chapter 5

       Roger Peckinpaugh and Billy Evans

       Willis Hudlin

       Eddie Morgan

       Dick Porter

       Mel Harder

       Jonah Goldman

       Wes Ferrell

       Oral Hildebrand

       Earl Averill

       Hal Trosky

       Glen Myatt and Willie Kamm

       Earl Averill

       Opening Day, 1932

       Alva Bradley and Walter Johnson

       Joe Vosmik

       Johnny Allen

       William Feller and Bob Feller

       Bruce Campbell

       PROLOGUE

      It was a brilliant afternoon, just made for baseball. Sure, there had been a small chance of rain, but the temperature stood at a comfortable seventy-nine degrees. The thousands of fans who walked down the new concrete ramps were filled with anticipation of what was going to take place. The long-awaited debut of Cleveland Municipal Stadium was just moments away. Since 1928, city officials and fans had been patiently waiting for the gigantic new facility to become a reality. Now, on Sunday July 31, 1932, it was about to happen.

      League Park had been the home of Cleveland baseball dating all the way back to 1891. The seating capacity at that time was nine thousand, quite adequate for the up-and-down Cleveland Spiders. Nearly twenty years later, owner Charlie Somers put a brick-and-steel second deck on the park that doubled the original number of seats. Jim Dunn, who acquired the team in 1916, found a way to push the seating capacity even higher, carving out another seven thousand seats. When the Cleveland Indians made their first World Series appearance in 1920 (and won, 5–2 over the Brooklyn Robins), temporary seats and standing room squeezed another thousand or two fans inside the grounds. Just one more row of seats and the park СКАЧАТЬ