Sports in the 1920s: depiction of the changes sports, and sports figures, went through in the 1920s

        One man who has greatly influenced society and the game of golf, is superstar Tiger Woods.  When he joined the PGA tour people jumped on the golf bandwagon in increasing numbers.  Golf has began more popular to the American people.  People from all over the country have gained interest in the game of golf.  Stossel states that the number of golfers went up by seven percent in 1997 alone (2).  Golf has become a high source for weekend entertainment for Americans.  More than six million Americans enjoy watching golf on weekends (Stossel 2).  Not only are people watching the sport, they are reading magazines like Golf, Golf World, Golf Digest and Links.  Also for entertainment there have been movies such as Tin Cup and Happy Gilmore (Stossel 2).

Golf also produced its legend from the era, Bobby Jones. “In the span of 8 years, Jones won 13 national championships, both in Europe and the United States. He was the original hot headed golfer, known to either play brilliantly, or to implode on the course”(Boland par 21). Bobby undoubtedly prevailed in golf and no one could stop him.

In the 1960’s most sports hit a really big growth spurt. If it weren’t for the 1960’s baseball, football, and boxing would not be the same as they are today. These sports caught almost everyone's attention on game days. People tried to be like the players and be as good as them, that pushed people to do better at athletic things that made them healthier. Sports like baseball, football, and boxing all provided role models that changed people’s lives in the 1960’s.

The 1920’s better known as the roaring twenties was a period of dramatic social, and political change. Throughout history the roaring twenties was the first time most Americans lived in cities than farms. After the years of World War I this was a period where America and the public wanted to separate themselves from other parts of the world, foreign countries .

After completing school, George Jr. signed with the Baltimore Orioles (then a minor league team) in 1914. George Jr. earned the nickname Babe from his teammates while he was in Baltimore. Later in 1914, Babe Ruth was sold to the Boston Red Sox. While playing with the Red Sox, Babe was a pitcher. Ruth’s pitching record was 94-46 (.671 pct) with a 2.28 ERA. In 1920, Red Sox owner Harry Frazee sold Babe Ruth for $125,000 to finance a production called No, No Nanette. After Ruth was sold the Red Sox went on a eighty-six year drought of winning a World Series finally ending in 2004. In New York, Babe started as the Yankees’ right fielder instead of pitching. In his first season with the Yankees, Babe hit fifty-four total home runs that year which was a record at that point. A year later Ruth broke his record with fifty-four home runs. That same year Ruth hit his first World Series home run. Later on October 6, 1926, Ruth was the first player to hit three home runs in a single World Series

The New York Yankees of 1927 were a high-powered machine lead by some of the greats of all time in baseball. This baseball team was composed of seven Hall of Famers, six players including: Earle Combs, George Herman (Babe Ruth), Lou Gehrig, Herb Pennock, Tony, Lazzeri, and Waite Hoyt, and their Manager, Miller Higgins. (New York Yankees Hall of Fame Register, 70) The team had a no-mercy philosophy and had a sense of confidence exceptionally high noted by Babe Ruth: "It was murder, we never even worried five or six runs behind. Wham! Wham! Wham! And wham! No matter who was pitching." The 1920's were an "economic boom for Americans. Now people had more time on their hands with the inventions such as the car and other household

In 1914, Babe Ruth made a major debut for the Boston Red Sox. Babe Ruth pitched in 4 out of 5 games in the 1914 baseball season. In 1916, The Red Sox won the World Series. In 1918, instead of being the pitcher, Babe Ruth played in the outfield. In the World Series of 1918, Babe Ruth pitched in Game 1. In Game 4, he pitched eight innings. In just six games, The Red Sox won the World Series. In 1919, Babe Ruth wanted a raise in his salary. Frazee, the owner of The Red Sox refused to raise it. Babe Ruth had to be

Sports went through many changes in the time period known as the roaring twenties. Sports, movies, and jazz became big in the recreational times of the 1920s. There are now over a million movie theaters, a ton of different sports leagues and teams, an uncountable number of golf courses and players, and plenty types of music. One finds this amazing how this all originated, in the Roaring Twenties.

In the 1919 baseball season, he knew that he should increase his salary earnings, and wanted Harry Frazee to sell him to the Yankees. Babe told everyone he knew the day was coming and that it was one that changed his life forever. He said on December 26, 1919 was the day he was sold to the New York Yankees. Frazee was offered $100,000 cash for Babe, and Frazee accepted. He also was also given 3 promissory notes of $25,000 each at 6% interest (ESPN).

“Baseball was still struggling to recover from a devastating scandal.” “Eight members of the Chicago White Sox had been indicted for accepting bribes to lose the World Series in the episode known as the Black Sox Scandal. One sportswriter credited Ruth with single handedly bringing baseball back into public favor after the scandal.” (Hanson 90). “During his first season with the Yankees, Ruth hit fifty-four home runs, restoring America’s interest in the all-American sport of baseball. Ruth in effect created a new way of playing baseball and made baseball players into start through his unique ability to hit long distances, as well as his larger-than-life personality. Left handed he could hit, pitch, and run with equal skill.” (Hanson 90). According to “Topics in Chronicling America,” “In 1918, The Red Sox won the World Series. The Red Sox had also won the World Series in 1915 and 1916, but Ruth had been held hitless in both Series. In 1919, Ruth demanded a salary increase from $10,000 to $20,000, even though he had two years remaining on his contract. He refused to play the 1920 season in Boston unless his demands are met.” “Although Ruth was an outstanding hitter he failed around two out of every three times he came to bat. He failed around eleven out of every twelve times for hitting home runs at bat. He failed much more often than people think but he is

Base on the book “The Year Babe Ruth Hit 104 Home Runs” by Bill Jenkinson, In February 1914 when Ruth was nineteen, Jack Dunn a player for several major-league teams and the owner of the minor league Baltimore Orioles offered a $600 contract for one season and he accepted so, in February 27, Ruth left St. as a professional baseball player, and on April 22 he

This article states that sports were affected negatively by The Great Depression in the 1930’s. Sports teams were struggling to make profit especially baseball teams. This was in part due to the limit of revenue the population had earned and received. Teams became commercialized by trying to come up with new forms of income without upping the ticket prices. Many athletes turned to Hollywood to earn money. Many athletes out of this era were; Babe Didrikson, Joe louis, Jesse Owens, and Helen Moody.

He was the most famous athlete in the United States in the 1920’s. Ruth saved baseball with 54 swings of his bat, making 54 home runs. Ruth broke into the major leagues in 1914 for the Boston Red Sox. His teammates called him “baby” and then later started calling him “babe”. Since Ruth was like a big kid, the name stuck and he became known as Babe Ruth to the baseball world.

Babe Ruth started out with the orioles but soon after he got sold to the Boston Red Sox in 1914. Which then he played center field and also was a amazing lefty pitcher. By 1916 the real game started for him, in 1916 he had a great reputation for his extraordinary results when he was up to bat, in the outfield and as a pitcher. Later as his career went on he soon hit 718 home runs and 2873

There was a great many ways in which sports helped to form and keep ethnic and racial identities during the time frame. Some ethnic groups used their culture’s sports, and the clubs they formed, in order to resist assimilation into American culture thus keeping their own country’s ethnic culture intact. While some groups made the choice to maintain their ethnic culture rather than integrate it with America’s larger culture, others had no say in the matter. The group that comes to mind are the African American people. Contrary to European clubs that tended to fight inclusion African Americans wished to be integrated into the American culture but were denied due to systemic racism spanning across the country. Even when they were allowed to participate in sports it wasn’t for long. Take Moses Fleetwood Walker for instance, he was one of the first African Americans to play professional baseball because another team’s player manager “refused to play games with an African American (Gems 145).” One of the few real sports avenues left for African Americans was the sport of boxing and even that was rife with racism. The only reason Africans were even allowed to participate “because white spectators enjoyed watching the brutalization of blacks (Gems 145).”