There are no professional archives of a photographer named Ken Quass. Babe Ruth was a famous baseball player during the Great Depression. While this might seem slightly irrelevant, it's actually not. Babe Ruth was amongst the people who did not suffer economically from the depression. He is a prime example of the fact that not everyone suffered economic disadvantages. He made 80,000 dollars a year (over 1 million in today’s economy). Babe Ruth was paid 5,000 dollars more than the president. While people were starving and risking their lives to do things like farming in the dust bowls or coal mining, the baseball player was thriving. It’s not very hard to guess why the entertainment business was thriving. People were likely looking for a distraction from the country’s economic state of depression. The point of this image is not to see a baseball player, it’s to see that fact that he is not the only one sitting on wealth while others suffered. President Hoover had the (failed) idea of trickle down economy was not an unthinkable idea but it was fail because not only were people like Babe Ruth were not creating jobs for americans but it was also very trusting of him to think that people would try to invest in a failing economy.
Late 1930’s, Ken Quaas, Photograph of Babe Ruth
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