McAllen Nine Invade Mexico City

Authors

Rene Torres, University of Texas at Brownsville

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Fall 2017

Abstract

The article explores popularity of baseball in the U.S. during 1934 when the country was struggling to recuperate from a near economic collapse sparked by the stock market crash nearly five years earlier. It reports that in August 1934 baseball team McAllen Lions were traveling to Mexico City to take on the Aztecas billed as the championships of the republic during hard economic times when drought plaguing some parts of the county.

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Recommended Citation

Torres, R., & Knoch, K. (2017). McAllen Nine Invade Mexico City. Journal of South Texas, 31(1), 123–125.

First Page

123

Last Page

125

Publication Title

Journal of South Texas