Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface Introduction What If? A Letter from FDR to Commissioner Landis Part I. Sweet & Fleet's 1934 Baseball Annual Sweet & Fleet's Roundtable A "Tour" of the Rosters Abbreviations 1934 Previews and Rosters delete American League Detroit Tigers 26; New York Yankees 27; Pittsburgh Crawfords 28; Homestead Grays 29; Cleveland Indians 31; Washington Senators 32; Boston Red Sox 33; Philadelphia Athletics 35; St. Louis Browns 36; Chicago White Sox 37 delete National League St. Louis Cardinals 39; New York Giants 41; Chicago Cubs 42; Newark Eagles 43; Pittsburgh Pirates 45; Philadelphia Phillies 46; Kansas City Monarchs 47; Boston Braves 48; Brooklyn Dodgers 50; Cincinnati Reds 51 Prognostications, Pronouncements Satch on the Road, Stearnes on the Side Effa Manley Interview Part II. Reports from The Blackball Watcher Opening Day to September The Pennant Races Part III. Playoffs: Previews, Game Stories, Talk League Semifinals League Pennant Series World Series Barnstorm Travelogue The Blackball Watcher Recap 60 Years Later. Elders and Ghosts from 1934 Meet in October 1994 Epilogue Chapter Notes For Further Reading Index.