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This video is about Sports in the 1920's

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The change that sports ing the 1920's greatly affected the economy and influenced life today. Known as "The Golden Age of Sports", the 1920's allowed sports to become known. Sports directly affected the economy. Through ticket sales, the building of hundreds or huge sports stadiums, snd an increased rate of sakes for newspapers and magazines, the economy was booming. The culture that sports created gave americans a more family love. That being said, American families began spending more time together because of the increase in leisure time and not having to spend so much time working. It also allowed Americans to discuss something other than war. Magazines, newspapers, and radio broadcast were becoming more popular because it was a way to get sports news out to people that weren't present at the sporting game. This change society because all three of them ares till used today and are a way to get the publics eye on sports and their events. This would lead into influencing the journalism department because of the articles, videos, and photographs that were being produced from the sporting event. American today is known for the sports and the fans. This increased peoples nationalism because Americans wanted to show there pride for Americans cultures and in many ways, sports were always involved. Many African Americans were being turn down to play sports, because of the Jim Crow Laws, but that didn't stop them. Many created specials leagues or teams that allowed them to play the sport they loved. This changed the way that race was brought upon in America because a league dedicated to blacks had never been created before.

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Known as the Golden Age of Sports, the 1920s gave great prosperity to sports and greatly affected today's sports. Popular sports included football, baseball, boxing, golf, tennis, and swimming. Sports have always been around by the 1920's but the time for leisure, or down time, increased dramatically. Through magazines, newspapers, and radio shows provide news about sports and the publics interested instantly peaked. Many families began having more family time as a way that sports let them bond and spend time with each other. "The golden Age of Sports" also created many sports legends, or people who made a big impact in something. Babe Ruth, the most popular baseball player of all time, was always talked about because of his long, successful career. Sports continued to be very high in publics interested. It made the economy so great because of ticket sales, the sports stadiums, the increase in newspaper and magnifies sale, and also apparel that is worn to support a team. The Negro National League, created by african americans, was a league that was made up of black baseball athletes. The men created this because Jim Crow laws were prevalent and did not allow blacks to compete against white people. This league allowed the gifted african americans to play the sport they loved. The 1920's allowed the public to unit together and give them something to talk about that didn't involve the war.

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Primary Source #3: Take Me Out to the Ball Game Script

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Primary Source #3: Take Me Out to the Ball Game Script

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This primary source shows the original script for the baseball anthem, Take Me Out to the Ball Game. This song was sang and still is sung at almost every baseball game in the nation. America loved baseball because it was different from other sports and that could involve the whole family. Although the original version of the song is a lot longer, it still has parts that are still sung today during baseball games. This script shows the development of the song through notes and lyrics. "Buy me some peanuts and cracker jacks", people sang this part because people would normally always eat peanuts and crackerjacks as a baseball ritual. I love singing this song because it always reminds me of my childhood and always going to the baseball games with my families.

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We chose this topic of today because Colin Kaepernick is doing what he believes is the right thing by not standing up during the national anthem cause he doesn't feel like everyone is not having equal rights in the world. He protesting that the National Anthem isn't being fulfilled by how racism is brought upon in the the world, especially America. He wants to bring attention to the issue and show his dominance over it and he is willing to fight for anti-racism.

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Football player Colin Kaepernick took a stand by refusing to stand as the national anthem played. It was a gesture that brought support for the quarterback even as it prompted protests by San Francisco 49ers fans.

Angry fans were burning their Kaepernick jerseys Saturday after the quarterback made headlines for remaining seated during "The Star-Spangled Banner." The anthem played before the team's preseason game on Friday night.

"He says he's oppressed making $126 million," Shane White, who says he is a lifelong 49ers fan, wrote in a Facebook post that included video of him torching a jersey while the national anthem is played. "Well, Colin, here's my salute to you."

A fan who calls himself Nate3914 set fire to a Kaepernick jersey and told the quarterback "if you don't love our country, get the [expletive] out of it. You should never play another down in the NFL. Move to Canada."

"There Are Bodies In The Street"

Kaepernick, as ESPN's Ian O'Connor points out, broke no team or league rule by refusing to stand. A 28-year-old biracial man, Kaepernick was adopted and raised by white parents who emphasized awareness of his cultural background. Kaepernick, who sat back by the water coolers during the playing of the anthem, said he was well aware that there would be repercussions.

"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color," Kaepernick told NFL Media's Steve Wyche. "To me, this is bigger than football, and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder."

Kaepernick's team spoke of the symbolism of the anthem while also pointing out that Kaepernick's protest was in keeping with "such American principles as freedom of religion and freedom of expression." His coach, Chip Kelly, supported his right to protest.

The NFL, in a statement, said that players are "encouraged but not required" to stand for the anthem. O'Connor, among others, defended Kaepernick, writing: "This is what American servicemen and women have defended here and abroad - Kaepernick's right to sing the national anthem at the top of his lungs, and to refuse to honor it altogether. As long as he's not interfering with his teammates' right to make their own red, white and blue choices, what's the problem here?"

Former Teammate Is Supportive

Reaction on social media was mixed.

Anquan Boldin, a former teammate of Kaepernick's, stood for the anthem as a member of the Detroit Lions on Saturday night in Baltimore. Boldin's cousin was shot to death by a police officer last year. He told the Detroit Free-Press that he supported Kaepernick's right to make the statement.

"I'm sure he's going to get flak for it, what he did," Boldin said, "but that's the great thing about being in America, you have that option."

Kaepernick emphasized that he had not asked for approval. NFL.com's Mike Garafolo points out that Kaepernick did the same thing in the previous preseason games.

"This is not something that I am going to run by anybody," Kaepernick told Wyche. "I am not looking for approval. I have to stand up for people that are oppressed. If they take football away, my endorsements from me, I know that I stood up for what is right."

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49ers fans burn jerseys over player's refusal to stand during anthem

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Football player Colin Kaepernick took a stand by refusing to stand as the national anthem played. It was a gesture that brought support for the quarterback even as it prompted protests by San Francisco 49ers fans. Angry fans were burning their Kaepernick jerseys Saturday after the quarterback made headlines for remaining seated during "The Star-Spangled Banner."

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In this primary source, the author says that there were way to many home runs in the 1924 baseball seasons. There was a recorded 976 home runs between the American and National Leagues. The author says this isn't fair because the game is becoming to easy and that further into the years, the entire game is going to be played through homers. He says the solutions are that they should expand all the baseball parks so the fields are large and harder to make a home run possible. But then he resulted in saying that it would cost way to much money and that it would take to long to do because baseball will still need to be played during the construction and it would cause to much disturbance. I think the author has a good point because the game was becoming to easy and it would not be fun to watch and would result in not a lot of people being interested in baseball anymore.

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The source of this article was from the Literary Digest. It was taken from the Februray 21st, 1925 issue. The author was not apparent from the website the article was used from. The authors intent in this article was to bring knowledge to the dwindling audience of baseball because of the excess amount of homeruns.

Too many Baseball Home-runs in 1924 and Possible Solutions - 1925

THERE were too many home-runs last summer-so many, in fact, that the popularity of baseball is said to be facing something like a crisis.

"As a result, the best minds and magnates of the Major Leagues will spend much of this winter, reports a sports writer, Irving E. Sanborn, devising ways and means for "the rescue of the home-run from the ranks of the commonplace, and its restoration to its distinguished position in the esteem of baseball fans." The average fan, says Mr. Sanborn, may be more forcibly imprest with the necessity for breaking the New York monopoly of major pennants and World's Series, or the resumption of the privilege of drafting recruits from the high-grade minor leagues. These reforms may be important enough, admits Mr. Sanborn, but they are not so important as "to stop the cheapening of the home-run, which has been in progress for several seasons." The average fan. he predicts, is going to lose one of his main reasons for being interested in baseball unless this is done, and when the average fan does that, as everybody knows, it is time for the best minds and magnates to get busy. Mr. Sanborn reports, in Baseball (New York):

There was a total of 976 home-runs registered in the American and National Leagues in 1923, as against 1,054 in the two major circuits in 1922. National League batsmen contributed 536 toward the 1923 total, and American League sluggers made 442. These figures are taken from the unofficial averages, but their only difference from the official will be due to possible clerical errors, because there is seldom any argument about a home-run. The umpire decides 99 1/2 per cent. of them-not the official scorer.

That slight decrease in four-base hits will not restore the feature to its former exalted position for a good many years yet unless some method is found by the rule-making members of the magnate oligarchy to bring about quality instead of quantity production in the home-run department. The Philadelphia Nationals, as usual, led the majors in four-baggers this year. The total number of drives which floated out or bounded out of the cigar-box in which the Phillies play their home games was 110. Ten or fifteen years ago that would have been a respectable total for the whole eight teams in either big league.

During the past season 18 home-runs were made in one minor league ball park in one afternoon when a double header was played. That happened in the bushes, of course, and probably the fences were shorter than in the bigger circuits. But it makes a joke out of what ought to be one of the most inspiring features of baseball to have it happen eighteen times in one day even on a bush-league field. And the men who frame the rules for big-league games make laws which govern all contests wherever baseball is played. There is no more tempting appeal to an epicurean appetite than quail done to a turn and served hot. But history does not record the fact that any one has yet been able to inhale thirty quail in thirty days without nausea.

The remedy? It is not the purpose of this article to advance any specific process by which the home-run might be rejuvenated. Its sole object is to establish the necessity of doing something.

There are two very effective ways, announces this critic, to reduce the output of home-runs:

One of them is to enlarge the ball parks to a uniform size, which is, of course, impractical considering the price of real estate and the difficulty of moving stands of reinforced concrete. The other is to increase the difficulty of making home-runs outside of the arena. There probably are plenty of other remedies, but it is up to the rule-makers to devise or select the best one.

At present there are vast inequalities in the requirements for circuit drives in the different cities. At least fifteen varieties of home-runs are possible in the majors alone, and it would be sixteen varieties if the two St. Louis teams did not play on the same grounds at home. It has not been possible, naturally, to obtain uniform lots for ball parks, nor to construct stands and bleachers of anything like the same dimensions. Consequently the playing-fields are of all shapes and sizes. Some have short right-fields, others short left-fields, and still others have short foul-lines in both right and left fields. Some have high screens above short boundaries, others have none. Some have wire-netting in front of the bleachers, others do not.

To illustrate the point, comparison may be made of two major-league parks of widely different home-run possibilities. The Philadelphia National-League Club's arena is the smallest in area in either major circuit and the easiest one on which to make home-runs. Right-field is so short that often it is impossible to make two bases on a drive against the wall if the outfielder is experienced in playing the rebounds. It is surmounted by a very high screen, but many a tall fly drops safely outside, altho it would have been caught by an ordinary outfielder on other parks in the circuit. It is no herculean feat to swat the ball entirely out of the lot over the left-field wall and there are bleachers in front of it. Even in the deepest part of center-field drives have been made to the club-house and there are bleachers in front of that.

As contrast Comiskey Park in Chicago is close to the ideal. Right and left-field bleachers are exactly the same distance from home-plate on the foul-lines and it requires a lusty wallop to drive the ball over the high wire screen in front of them. Occasionally a brilliant right or left-fielder can go back to the bleacher barrier and catch a long fly ball, but only when he was playing deep-field at the start. Any-thing that strikes the ground inside the enclosure stays inside instead of bounding into the stands and is good for three bases for a fleet runner. In center-field it is possible for a fairly fast man to make a home-run inside the grounds. It takes a slugger of the Ruth type to hit anything except a foul fly entirely out of the lot which is an exact square. It cost Owner Comiskey a tidy sum to induce a wrecking concern to vacate a lease on the ground now occupied by the right-field bleachers, but the Old Roman paid it to get rid of a short right-field fence and to obtain space for a symmetrical playing-field.

Ruth never could have made his world's record of 59 home-runs on the Braves park in Boston, or even if he had remained a member of the Red Sox, declares Mr. Sanborn. Furthermore:

It is doubtful if he could have hung up that mark, even in his best year, if the Yankee Stadium had been in existence then, so that he would have been playing there instead of at the Polo Grounds. Ruth himself, commenting on the difference between the two baseball parks in Gotham, after a preliminary practise at the Giants' grounds last October, said:

"That right-field stand is a cinch compared to the Yankee Stadium. You don't know how easy it is until you've been away for a year. I'd have hit eighty homers easily here this season."

Merely increasing the legal distance from home-plate to the boundary necessary to entitle a batsman to a home-run on a drive out of bounds will not solve the problem of standardizing such hits. There still would be the inequality of conditions due to parks where ground-balls hop into unscreened stands while other club owners screen their bleachers and eliminate that element of luck.

When first opened, the Yankee Stadium had a joke home-run zone in right-field near the foul-line where an ordinary single could hurdle the barrier for a round-trip hit. But Colonel Ruppert erected a ten-foot screen in front of that pocket, making it necessary to hit the ball over it on the fly to earn a home-run. The club owners whose open stands are not screened probably would protest strenuously if a rule were passed compelling all of them to erect ten-foot screens to eliminate lucky four-baggers. They could protest both on the basis of cost and because their patrons would object to looking through a wire netting after having had an unobstructed view all these years. But it would be possible to handle those conditions by a rule which would eliminate home-runs on balls that strike inside the enclosure and bound into an unprotected stand, cutting down such hits to two or three bases according to the distance of the stands from home-plate.

Clark Griffith, the Washington club owner, sensed the danger of stultifying the home-run by surfeiting the fans with them, and advocated over a year ago a change in the rules which would have eliminated some of them. At present a batsman is entitled to a home-run on any fair hit that goes "over a fence or into a stand" at a distance not less than 235 feet from the home-plate. If any fence or stand is closer to the plate than 235 feet, an out-of-bounds hit in that section is good for only two bases. Griffith's suggestion, as I recall it, was to change that distance from 235 to 315 feet and make all fair hits over the wall or into a stand less than 315 feet from the platter good for only two bases.

That would have helped a little by eliminating some of the joke home-runs, and it would have operated to rectify some of the existing inequalities of the different ball parks. But it would not have solved the problem of equaling the chances for home-runs on balls bounding into stands, some of which are screened and some of which are not.

Griffith's suggestion had no chance for a tryout, however, as it was opposed by the National League and by Commissioner Landis for different reasons. The American League could not try it out alone because the existing agreement makes it necessary for the playing rules to be uniform, thereby preventing either league from experimenting with them on its own hook. The commissioner avowed that the baseball public loved home-runs and should not be deprived of the source of one of its greatest joys. He lacked the foresight to realize that it is possible to give any man too much of any good thing-except golf. The National League's objections, if memory is correct, were more specific and had to do with the fear of confusing the fans with too many boundary lines and of adding to the woes of the umpires by increasing the chances for kicking.

"In the bad old days," says Mr. Sanborn, "the American League would have been free to give Griffith's idea a trial and probably would have done so this year." The critic protests:

While uniformity of playing rules is a thing to be desired, it is doubtful if its value to baseball offsets its tendency to throttle initiative in the matter of improving the game. It is tedious even in imagination to think what a ball-game would have degenerated into when all the batsmen had acquired the ability to foul off good balls at will without incurring any penalty for it. And the foul-strike rule might never have been adopted, or have been tried out too late, if it had been necessary to convince both major leagues, and all the club owners thereof, theoretically that it would be a good thing for the game. The same is true of other innovations adopted before the present dual alliance between the American and National Leagues produced a stand-pat policy.

The conservative majority of the magnates of the two leagues seems satisfied to "let well enough alone" and to hesitate through fear of hurting their game to make many experiments in the line of improvement. The standpatters maintain that baseball never was more popular than to-day, and point to the record-breaking world's series of 1923 to prove it.

They overlook the fact that this nation has been growing and prospering fast and that many other branches of sport have been gaining in popularity. They do not ask themselves if baseball has increased its vogue and its patronage as much as it might have done under a progressive instead of a standpat policy.

Getting down to brass tacks, the record-breaking attendance of the world's series of 1923, altho demonstrating emphatically that no greater throngs ever saw a similar event, do not prove beyond dispute that baseball enthusiasm is any greater or more wide-spread than ten years ago. They prove that the public responded more copiously to more spacious accommodations than ever before were provided for a World's Series. They do not prove that more people would not have attended previous world combats if the plants would have held them.

As indicated by the official attendance figures this fall, the maximum capacity of the Yankee Stadium under world's series restrictions was 62,817 paid admissions and of the Polo Grounds 46,302. Three games were played in each park. If they had been filled to capacity every one of the six days, the total attendance would have been 327,357. The official total attendance for the six games was 301,430. Which means that almost 26,000 more folks could have seen the 1923 series if they had wanted to.

Ten years before that, in 1913, the World's Series was played in the Polo Grounds and at Shibe Park in Philadelphia. The official records show that the maximum capacity of the Polo Grounds at that time was 36,682 and of the Athletics' Park 20,563. Three of the five games in that series were played on the Polo Grounds and two at Shibe Park. The maximum total attendance possible under those conditions was 151,172. The actual paid attendance in 1913 totaled 150,992. Which indicates that only 180 more patrons could have been crowded into the parks during those five days.

Crowds were turned away at every one of those games between the Giants and Athletics, altho not as many as the throngs which could not get into the New York plants on the Saturday and Sunday of the 1923 World's Series. But the fans of 1913 knew by experience that very few seats were on sale to the general public in those days, while Gotham patrons this year had reason to hope there would be room for everybody who had the inclination and the price.

The point is just this. The record figures of last October do not by themselves prove that interest was any greater than in 1913, because no one can assert positively that the total attendance of the 1913 series would not have exceeded 301,430 if the Athletics and Giants had been able to use the Yankee Stadium and the enlarged Polo Grounds and their series had lasted six games. I am not claiming that baseball enthusiasm was any greater in 1913 than now. I am merely pointing out that there were not 26,000 vacant seats or standing spots in 1913 or at any subse-quent World's Series prior to the latest series."

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Baseball Home Runs Article - 1920s Sports

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THERE were too many home-runs last summer-so many, in fact, that the popularity of baseball is said to be facing something like a crisis. "As a result, the best minds and magnates of the Major Leagues will spend much of this winter, reports a sports writer, Irving E.

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Babe Ruth became the most well known baseball players during the 1920's. Ruth played 22 seasons in the MLB and started playing as a left hand pitcher for the Boston Red Soxs. He had a career record of 714 home runs and thousands of RBI. IN 1936, Ruth was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. I think that Ruth spent his life dedicated to baseball and had great success in it. During his many years in the sports, playing for many different teams, he proved to people that if you set your dreams to something, you can get it done. In his farewell speech in 1947, ruth talked about how if you wanted to become a baseball player like him, you need to start playing young, at around 5 to 6 years of age. He always encouraged others to make sure to believe in their beliefs for what they are and to never change becsaue some might be different.

"You just can't beat the person who never gives up." - Babe Ruth

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Advertising- sporting events during this time would advertise different products and businesses to help them with marketing.
Elitist sports- they are sports such as tennis, golf, and polo, country club sport basically.
Leisure time- America increase because of industrialization and movement of people from the 24/7 work to less times cause all the machines
The Harlem Renaissance- it was a period during the 1920s that African Americans arts, literature, and music became so popular
Babe Ruth- was an baseball player that was so famous during this time from hitting so many home runs during his playing time

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In the 1920's, time was spent thinking about social change and prosperity. Many Americans, for the first time, had more time for leisure and less time working. A lot of rural Americans finally got to experience the social ethnicity that many created and allowed them to endure into radio shows, read newspapers, and go to events, such like sport events. Baseball, boxing, basketball and football were the most publicizes sporting events but also brought interest into ice hockey, tennis, golf and swimming.

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American Sports in the 1920s for kids: Pictures of Famous Sports Stars
The photographs and pictures of the famous stars of sports in the 1920s are a useful addition to the facts sheet. The names of the famous sports stars are Gene Tunney, Babe Ruth, Satchel Paige, Jack Dempsey, Johnny Weissmuller and Joe Lewis.

Gene Tunney

Babe Ruth

Satchel Paige

Jack Dempsey

Johnny Weissmuller

Joe Lewis

Facts about Sports in the 1920s for kids The following fact sheet contains interesting facts and information about Sports in the 1920's for kids.

Facts about Sports in the 1920s for kids

Sports in the 1920s Fact 4: College Sports for Men: The vast majority of College students in the 1920's were men and its history dated back to 1859. The first Sporting favorites at college included baseball and football but the range soon extended to include athletics, gymnastics and basketball. Spectators and gate receipts became a regular part of college games..

Sports in the 1920s Fact 8: Spectator Sports and Stadiums: Spectator sports such as basketball, baseball and boxing reached new heights of popularity in the 1920s and massive stadiums were built in cities to cater for the increasing interest of people who wanted to watch and enjoy the excitement of spectator sports.

Sports in the 1920s Fact 9: Madison Square Garden: Madison Square Garden was originally an indoor arena as a theater, for concerts and also housed a restaurant. Madison Square Garden was rebuilt in 1925 in order to hold popular sporting events such as boxing, basketball and ice hockey. Madison Square Garden rebuilt in 249 days at the cost of $4.75 million by boxing promoter Tex Rickard.

Sports in the 1920s Fact 10: The Yankee Stadium: The Yankee Stadium, located in the Bronx, in New York City was built in 1927 as a ballpark for baseball. The Yankee Stadium was built from 1922 - 1923 for $2.4 million ($32 million equivalent today). Yankee Stadium officially opened on Wednesday, April 18, 1923, with the Yankees' first home game, against the Boston Red Sox. It was given the nickname, "The House That Ruth Built" in reference to Babe Ruth, the legendary baseball superstar whose popularity coincided with the opening of the stadium and the winning successes of the Yankees.

Sports in the 1920s Fact 12: National Air Races: The National Air Races, also known as Pulitzer Trophy Races, began in 1920 when publisher Ralph Pulitzer sponsored an air race on Long Island, New York in an effort to promote aviation. Refer to Early US Aviation

Sports in the 1920s Fact 13: Baseball's World Series: Baseball's World Series was broadcast on radio for the first time in October 1921
and Americans listened to the thrilling radio commentary as the New York Giants defeated the New York Yankees.

Refer to Sports in the 1920s Fact 16: Discrimination and Prejudice: There was Discrimination and Prejudice in every aspect of the 1920's sporting arenas, just as in every other aspect of American society. Racial prejudice against African Americans were prevalent as was discrimination from the "New Immigrants" from South-western Europe such as Italy, Greece and Poland . The infamous Jim Crow Laws restricted whites and blacks from playing baseball, basketball and football together. Black boxers were even forbidden from sparring with white boxers. Old Immigrants vs New Immigrants and Jim Crow Laws for facts and info. The pride inspired by the Harlem Renaissance inspired African Americans to excel in the American sporting arena.

: Women had also been treated as 'second class citizens'. However times were changing in the 1920's. Women gained the right to vote in 1920 and the Roaring Twenties saw the emergence of Sports in the 1920s Fact 17: Women Flappers who challenged traditional ideas in social conventions and influenced women's fashion - including sporting attire for women.

knickerbockers and baggy trousers came into vogue enabling women to enjoy comfortable sports clothing for golf and and the new rage for bicycling. Famous fashion designer Jean Patou introduced styles suited to outdoor fashion and women's sportswear. He moved fashion towards the natural and comfortable clothes and became famous for his daring sleeveless and knee-length tennis dress that he designed for Suzanne Lenglen, the legendary French tennis champion. For more facts refer to Sports in the 1920s Fact 18: Fashion and Sportswear for Women: Women's fashion changed and short 1920's Fashion for Women.

Sports in the 1920s Fact 19: Fashion and Sportswear for Men: Sports and leisure influenced fashion and sportswear for men. New, casual attire like jumpers, jodhpurs, plus-fours and knickerbockers. College sporting stars inspired the widespread fashion of 'letterman sweaters'. For more facts refer to 1920s Men's Fashion.

Sports in the 1920s Fact 21: The Harlem Renaissance: The Harlem Renaissance was a period during the 1920s when African-American achievements in art, literature and music flourished. The Harlem Renaissance was important because it inspired an explosion of pride and was perceived as a new beginning for African Americans and led to many achievements by African American sports heroes..

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Sports in the 1920s Fact 36: Jack Dempsey: Jack Dempsey was a famous boxer who held the title of world heavyweight champion
from 1919 until 1926, when he lost it to Gene Tunney. When Jack Dempsey attempted to win back the
title in 1927, the publicity and enthusiasm for the boxing rematch reached such a frenzy that just one store sold $90,000 worth of radios, a massive sum at that time, in the two weeks leading up to the rematch. 74 radio stations carried the Dempsey-Tunney bout to an audience of nearly 15 million listeners. Jack Dempsey was the first to earn $1,000,000 for one boxing match.

Facts about Sports in the 1920s for kids

American Sports in the 1920s Facts for kids: List of Famous American Sports Stars in the 1920s Many of the names of Famous American Sports stars are detailed on the following list.

List of Famous American Sports Stars in the 1920s

Gertrude Ederle ● Red Grange ● Gene Tunney ● Jack Dempsey ● Babe Ruth ● Bill Tilden ● Knute Rockne ● Betty Robinson ● Lou Gehrig ● Walter Hagen ● Bobby Jones ● Helen Wills ● Jesse Owens ● Henry McDonald ● Johnny Weissmuller ● Joe Lewis ● Oscar Charleston ● Satchel Paige ● Walter "Toots" Wright ● Al "Runt" Pullins

List of Famous American Sports Stars in the 1920s

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Jim Crow laws were prevalent during the 1920's and did not allow gifted African Americans to be able to endure in the American Dream that included the social culture of sports. African Americans were not allowed to compete with white Americans and the white Americans would refuse to compete against African Americans. But some African Americans were determined to be able to play sports and resulted in the creation of the Negro National League of Baseball.

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During the 1920's, sports flourished and became popular because it was a way that grab people's attention to make money. The NFL and the Negro National League were both created in this time. Magazines, newspapers, and radio shows were a way to get sports information around and allowed the public's eye to open. Many well known sports players were created, including the infamous baseball player, Babe Ruth.

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The public flocked to sporting events in record numbers to be entertained by a host of sporting celebrities, both male and female.
Media Attention Creates Sports Stars

Sports which grew and flourished in the nineteen twenties due to unprecedented publicity and promotion included baseball, tennis, golf, swimming, football and boxing. Newspapers, magazines, radio and movies all played a role in boosting the profile of sport and the sporting giants.

The 1920's was a transition period for many sports. Sports that had up until that time been largely amateur events caught the eye of promoters who could see an opportunity to capitalize and make money. The professional football league, golf tours, and tennis circuit were organized. Media publicity ensured large crowds and guaranteed the financial success of the ventures, allowing new stadiums to be built and providing steadily increasing salaries for the sports stars.

As people spent more time watching and listening (radio) to sport, they engaged in less sport themselves, a trend which has continued down to the present day resulting in the so-called "couch-potato" syndrome. Watching Babe Ruth play baseball became more important than playing baseball yourself. However this was not true of all sports, as tennis and golf in particular boomed due to their higher profile, and were popular with both men and women.

Golf, as a sport, had been around for a relatively long time, but the 1920s saw a rapid rise in popularity so that by the end of the decade it was estimated that there were 3 million golfers playing in the U.S. on over 4,000 golf courses scattered around the country. In addition there were over 30,000 mini golf venues where the general public who couldn't afford the costs of equipment and club memberships could enjoy a much cheaper version of the sport.

Money also became a factor in college sport where it was claimed that sports had also become commercialized to the point where the few were exploited to make a spectacle for the many and where the games became a source of financial revenue rather than a school of sport and exercise for the majority, and no longer focused on sportsmanship or moral development.

The sports stars of this era remain well known even today, such was their fame and the publicity they received for their amazing careers, endorsements or promotions. Very few will not have heard of Babe Ruth in baseball, Jack Dempsey in boxing, Johnny Weissmuller in swimming, Knute Rockne and Red Grange in football, Bill Tilden and Helen Wills in tennis, and Bobby Jones, Walter Hagen and Glenna Collett in golf.

As the current sports champions were coming to the close of their careers a younger generation of sports stars were in the making.

The momentum these sports built up in the 1920's has ensured that these sports have endured in popularity to the present day. Present day sporting stars are often compared to the greats of the 1920's and great publicity attends the player who exceeds the records set 80 years ago, ensuring our old heroes are not forgotten. Pilgrimages are made to the various halls of fame where the 1920's giants are immortalized in memorials and collections of memorabilia that showcase their careers.

Annual Sports Highlights

1920 in sports - National Football League formed; baseball's Negro National League formed; Babe Ruth sold to New York Yankees and hits 54 home runs, signalling the arrival of the lively ball era in baseball; Cleveland Indians' shortstop Ray Chapman is killed by a Carl Mays pitch; the Grand Prix de Paris horse race changes its name to the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe

1921 in sports - The schooner Bluenose begins her undefeated career in racing, winning the International Fishermen's Trophy

1922 in sports - First sub-one minute 100m freestyle swim; Walter Hagen becomes the first U.S.-born golfer to win the British Open

1923 in sports - First 24 hours of Le Mans race; Ty Cobb breaks Honus Wagner's major league record for career hits

1924 in sports - First Winter Olympic Games; in the Summer Olympics, Paavo Nurmi wins 5 golds in Athletics (track and field)

1925 in sports - French Open in tennis opened to non-French players for the first time; first handball international between Germany and Belgium

1926 in sports - Jack Dempsey loses his world heavyweight boxing title to Gene Tunney; Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim the English channel

1927 in sports - First Ryder Cup of golf - Samuel Ryder presented the Ryder Cup as a prize at the first international competition between U.S. and British professional golfers (Won by the U.S.); In tennis, France beats America in the Davis Cup

1928 in sports - Women's Olympic athletics and gymnastics are held for the first time at the 1928 Summer Olympics; "Dixie" Dean scores 60 league goals in 39 matches as Everton F.C. win the Football League

1929 in sports - Wally Hammond scores 905 runs at an average of 113.12 as England defeat Australia in The Ashes

Gate receipts for the ten biggest football clubs increased throughout the 1920's until the depression hit when takings of less than $2,000,000 in 1931 were lower than in 1925. Indoor games that could be played at home suddenly increased in popularity - games like table tennis, quoits, dominoes, chess, backgammon, and checkers.

The Effect of Radio on Sport

The RECENT SOCIAL TRENDS IN THE UNITED STATES Government Report published in 1933 made some interesting comments on how radio affected sport.

Interest in sports increased, it is generally admitted. When analyzed in further detail we see fifteen further social effects, which are as follows: The broadcasting of boxing matches and football games tends (1) to emphasize the big matches to the neglect of the smaller and local ones, (2) increasing even more the reputation of the star athletes. In the case of football (3) the big coaches are glorified and (4) their salaries become augmented. (5) The attendance at colleges specializing in football whose football games are broadcast is increased. (6) Football practice in the springtime is thus encouraged and (7) the recruiting of prospective star players for college enrollment is fostered. (8) The smaller colleges or the ones with higher scholastic requirements tend to be differentiated as a class by contrast. (9) Boxing matches with big gates have accentuated trends in boxing promotion, notably the competition for large sums of money to the neglect of smaller matches. (10) Broadcasting of sports has led to a greater advertising of the climate of Florida and California, and (11) no doubt has aided a little the promotion of these two regions. (12) Broadcasting of sports has led to the developing of a special skill in announcing the movements of athletes not at times easy to see, a skill rather highly appreciated. (13) Athletic and social clubs with loud speakers have become popularized somewhat on the afternoons and evenings of the matches. (14) The broadcasting of baseball games is said to have bolstered the attendance, particularly by recapturing the interest of former attendants. (15) Another effect it is said has been the reduction in some cases of the number of sporting extras of newspapers.

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Sport and Sports Stars rose to prominence in the 1920's Era due to unprecedented publicity and promotion