As the Great Depression of the 1930s bit hard into North America, heroes - sometimes from the most unlikely quarters - emerged to distract and entertain the public. Some of the greatest earned their status on a baseball field, and in Heroes in Hard Times you will find two of baseball's most talented and colorful pitchers: Dizzy Dean, ace of the St. Louis Cardinals, and Satchel Paige, star of the Negro Leagues. Though Dizzy and Satchel shared a childhood in poverty, a career in baseball, and future recognition in the Hall of Fame, they lived in parallel universes - one white, one black, a...
As the Great Depression of the 1930s bit hard into North America, heroes - sometimes from the most unlikely quarters - emerged to distract and enterta...