Reading "The Glory and the Dream"

Looks like a good workout!

From Wikipedia:
"Hooverball is a medicine ball game invented by President Herbert Hoover's personal physician to help keep then-President Hoover fit."

I found an article written recently; that proposes it might have been Hoover's labor policies that helped spur the Great Depression:

http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/21795