Themes in American History

Throughout the entire decade of the 1920’s the baseball teams in New York, the New York Giants and the New York Yankees, have dominated the sport of baseball by being a part of the World series nearly every year in the 1920’s. New York baseball has dominated every other baseball team during this time and it set the tone for New York being an aggressive and winning state in sports. This era also brought ought arguably the best baseball player of all time. Babe Ruth.

Babe Ruth as a New York Yankee

Source: Library of Congress

Author: George Grantham Bain

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79i84xYelZI

The video above shows an example of the type of silent movies viewed during this time period.

The 1920s are greatly known for the entertainment developed during the time period. People had more free time and began spending this time several different types of leisure activities. People began watching sports especially baseball as well as boxing. Some even became involved in sports such as tennis baseball and golf (Chudacoff & Smith 217). The movie business continued to expand as more and more people began too visit theaters. For example about 110 million people visited the movies in a week when the population of the U.S. was only about 120 million (Chudacoff & Smith 217). Music advanced and flourished as Jazz became increasingly popular (Chudacoff & Smith 218). Radio allowed listeners to hear a wide variety of things from music to the news to advertisements about retail products that convinced them to go out and buy them (Chudacoff & Smith 218). This modernized the city by making it a thriving entertainment center with a wide variety of things to do during peoples free time. These developments brought forth the technologies of entertainment in the future that lead to inventions such as the television.

Picture of Babe Ruth who was an important figure in baseball during the 1920s

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