The Golden Age Of Sports In the early 1920's ports became a very important part in citizens lives. With World War I just ending, people needed something to turn to. Radios were just now available to homes all over the United States. Sports were followed throughout the entire country house to hous...
Babe Ruth represented the millions who were born somewhere else, sometimes in unclear circumstances- (Sullivan 5). ... While in New York, Ruth established that "If living in the moment is a virtue, then he was a saint."" ... Ruth's entry as a prominent figure in baseball could not have come at a better time. ... However, "the popularity that [Ruth] inspired for baseball proved to be stronger than the revulsion that the Black Sox revelations triggered- (Sullivan 27). Babe was simply a "phenomenon- "the last grasp of the "rugged individual."" ...
Babe Ruth was paid a salary of eighty thousand dollars in 1930 just to hit home runs. Indeed, Babe Ruth was a great baseball player; however, he was a typical overpaid athlete with an attitude that foreshadowed many to come in the future. When Ruth was asked to justify himself making thousand dollars more than the President of the United States that year, he replied, "I had a better year than he did." ...
On October 1, 1932 at Wrigley Field, Babe Ruth pointed to the bleacher out in center field signifying that he would hit a home run right there and on the next pitch he delivered a shot that soared 440 feet and landed over the deepest part of center field. This would become the most famous play in sports which is known today as "Babes Called Shot"." Babes Yankees went on to defeat the Cubs that year leaving the Cubs without a winning championship since 1908. ...
The Roaring Twenties The Roaring Twenties was a decade of fun and general good feeling in the United States. The country was caught up in new music, new dances, new games, blossoming literature, different fashions, new heroes and heroines, and booming business that left everyone with a good fee...
In the early 20th century, otherwise known as the Roaring Twenties, the United States did not only dramatically change economically, but the sudden burst of popular entertainment, new intuitive inventions, and the initiation of mass productions, made America the wealthiest country in the world. This...
The Roaring 20s refers to the "golden" decade of growth between 1920 - 1930 in post-war America. America in the 1920s was full of prosperity, growth, and was considered a crossroad of the traditional and modern. Such as the Fundamentalists of "old school" religion clashing with the Modernists of new...
