Can I See a Menu?
This is a menu from the train that carried the powerful
1929 Philadelphia Athletics from Chicago to Philadelphia.
The team, led by pitcher Lefty Grove, and sluggers
Jimmie Foxx, Al Simmons, and catcher, Mickey Cochrane,
had just won the first two games of the 1929 World
Series against the Cubs. These were the days of
long train rides through open fields with card games
and baseball banter. The menu was signed by sixty-six
people who were associated with the team, including
all of the A's players, team executives, coaches,
and wives. On the cover of the menu reads the date,
October, 1929. Who could have known that two weeks
after the World Series, the stock market would crash
and life in America would change so drastically.
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