The Age of Babe Ruth:
Baseball in the 1920s
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President Coolidge shakes hands with Walter
Johnson at Griffith Stadium; Bucky Harris in back] Library
of Congress Prints and Photographs Division , LC-USZ62-32732 DLC
The Society of American Baseball Research's The Business of Baseball site offers a copy of 1921 New Major League Agreement which created the office of the commissioner chosen by the owners. It also has a copy of the Federal Club v. National League, the case which granteedbaseball its anti-trust exemption.
USA Today's Baseball Weekly for August 11, 1999 offers a short sketch of some key personalities and events of the decade.
The evolution of baseball journalism can be
followed in The Sporting News feature
History of the Sporting News which outlines that key publication from the 1880s
to the present. Individual baseball writers of note are sketched
in the The J. G. Taylor Spink
award honorees. Spink was the founder of The Sporting
News.
If you are near a library that carries the New York Times on microfilm, you might want to roll thorough its accounts of the 1926 World Series between the Yankees and Cardinals. Because radio was so new coverage includes a transcript of the radio play by play of each game.
This page was last updated
March 30, 2005
Background image, an old-timer (George Herman Ruth) takes his cuts, during the 1940s. Photo provided by William R. Conroy.