Sports+(Colin)

Sports in the 1920s opened with baseball superstar Babe Ruth being sold to the New York Yankees by their rivals the Boston Red Sox. He began what would be a decade dominated by the Yankees by hit a record 54 home runs in one season. Although not all abseball news was good news as Ray Chapman was actually killed by a pitch that hit him in the head. 1920 also saw the formation of the most popular sport in America now, Football. Although there were only eleven teams, there were still two conferences and four divisions in each conference. There were three olympic games during the 1920s that were located in Antwerp, Belgium, Paris, France, and finally Amsterdam, Holland. America won the most medals of any nation during all three olympic games. Sports became a huge market during the 1920s as more and more people went to watch.

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