SPORTMGT 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Wall Street Crash Of 1929, Tom Yawkey, Roaring Twenties
7 Nov 2016
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Those who had the least, lost the most! 1920s harlem renaissance the new negro ! 1929 stock market crash (the great depression, 1929-1938)! More press than any other gure in 1938! Raised by his uncle william ( good times ) yawkey! More concerned with this image than winning games! 1933 purchased the red sox at age 30! Liked surrounding himself with famous, rich, white people! Ty cobb famous ballplayer, huge racist (parallels between him and tom)! > owners of red sox wanted money to invest in entertainment industry, put on ! From the wrong side of the tracks, but he still managed to get ahead! Christy walsh and babe ruth were able to create this reputation for ruth without it being challenged! Ruth being chased in his underwear by knife-yielding women on a train ! None of the press could write about it! They wanted to only paint a nice picture of athletes!
