What were the key sports of the roaring twenties?
The 1920s have been called the Golden Age of Sports. From the very beginning of the decade extraordinary athlete-heroes emerged in virtually every sport—baseball, football, tennis, golf, polo, and the Olympic sports. Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Lou Gehrig, Red Grange, Knute Rockne, Helen Wills, Bill Tilden, Bobby Jones, Walter Hagen, Jack Dempsey, Benny Leonard, and Tommy Hitchcock established records and, in the process, became legends. In the 1920’s BASEBALL was everything! It was ALL about baseball. Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Lou Gehrig. Professional boxing was also huge in the 1920’s, but not really a sport for women and children to enjoy, defnitely a “guy thing”. Jack Dempsey, Benny Leonard. Red Grange and Knute Rockne, football legends in their own time. Bill Tilden and Bobby Jones are still Golf Gods. It was the BEST time in American History for sports.
