Have you ever wondered what sports were like back in the 1930s? Many sports were played, but only some sports were loved and played a lot. The Great Depression was going on during the 1930s, alternately; people would go to sport games to relieve stress most of the time. The most popular sport during the 1930s was baseball. Baseball during the 1930s was very popular. Even though baseball was popular it had its ups and downs in the 1930s. During the 1930s baseball had a big racial problem. None of the African Americans in the United States could play with whites. What the blacks ended up doing was making their own league called the Negro League Baseball (NLB). There were many great baseball players that came from this league. Most people think Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier, but it wasn’t him. It was Moses Fleetwood Walker. Although the sports were popular; they also had many popular players. Bill Dickey was one of the most popular baseball players during this time period. He was chosen six times in a decade to go to the All-Star game, he hit .320 with a .902 OPS, and led all …show more content…
He is still tied for the Lions single-game record with 24 points scored in1934. There has been a drastic change in sports from the 1930s to now. The biggest change from the 1930s to now is the segregation. In the 1930s you couldn’t find a black on a professional sports team. Today you can find at least five blacks on every professional team. Sports get much more attention today than they did in the 30s. In the 30s while these great sports were forming the Great depression was going on. The Great Depression made people find other things to do for cheap or closely to nothing. There were many great sports and players in the 1930s. The sports played back then had a big affect on today's
“The athletic craze began in the late nineteenth century when American’s were looking for some recreational activities to add to their daily lives during the Depression. In the cities, industrial wage earners frequented play grounds. They went dancing at the dance halls and had fun at the amusement parks. People that lived in rural areas simply rode bicycles, played baseball or football. “
After reviewing Theodore Roosevelt,” the proper place for sports”, Roosevelt, claim that Americans have always valued sports. Sports have big place in American Society, but there is more important things in life than sports. Playing sports is important for physical health but academics should be the main focus for everyone.
Most sports were popular in the 1920s, but baseball was king. Some of the best players in the history of baseball played during the 1920s. One of the most famous players of all time, Babe Ruth, helped make baseball what it is today. In 1913, the New York Yankees baseball team shared stadiums with the Giants football team.
Sports were in rising popularity before and throughout the 1920’s. The economy was working astonishingly well, and the common American had substantially more disposable income that they did not have before. This gave numerous people the money to pay for the cost of entertainment services. Baseball was by far largest in popularity, with stars such as Babe Ruth. The 1919 World Series caused much commotion during this time, and slingshotted the popularity of Baseball and subsequently the popularity of other college and professional sports. New innovations such as the Radio and Television, made it easier to listen and keep track of sports and news across the country. This created a common culture with Americans and gave
Entertainment in the nineteen thirty’s you had very limited entertainment you didn’t just go on you didn’t just watch TV in color for entertainment and you had more free time than ever with the work day being much shorter. People were wondering what to do during their breaks and you had sports such as football and basketball as well as soccer and boxing or you can be listening to music that you made by a guitar and a jug and you listen to the radio and you can listen the news and the local games from basketball and baseball. And for types of music you had the Pied Pipers and the Girls of the golden west. Also you had fishing and hunting and for the radio it cost about 40 dollars and an average salary in the nineteen thirty is twelve hundred
The Negro Baseball League was a league comprised of professional, African American baseball players. The creation of this league comes from the black players who were not accepted into major or minor league baseball. Generally, The Negro Baseball league was a reflection of America during a time when society was segregated. The Negro Baseball League was influential to the 1920s because it changed the social development of America and demonstrated a sense of equality among men.
Specifically during the Gilded Age, African Americans, women and the lower-class were all discriminated against in sporting arenas just as they have been in every aspect of American society. Unfortunately early on in the Gilded Age, sports clearly showed the "significant under-representation among key equality and diversity groups in society"(http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/era.cfm?eraid=9). However, as sports became more popular, Americans came to the realization that there were barriers that needed to be broken between minorities, women and different social-classes. Changing the face of America, the history of sports started off from being games played primarily for entertainment and leisure, to creating equality amongst everyone. The history of sports has been marked by division and discrimination but also has affected modern popular culture and changing social attitudes and standards towards gender equality, social-class and race.
Just as most sports before World War II, baseball was racially segregated. Some African Americans participated in dominantly white leagues but for the most part baseball remained segregated especially between 1900 and 1947. The desegregation of baseball was very important to American culture. The Major Leagues was desegregated before America's public education system. The success of players in the Negro Leagues and the circumstances of World War II helped lead the way towards the signing of Jackie Robinson. However, economic opportunities were the core reasons for Robinson's signing. The desegregation of American baseball was slow, but it still preceded the Civil Rights revolution.
The Great Depression is a time in the history of the United States that people have learned and gained knowledge from. Its harsh times and conflicts have been written about in books, seen in movies, talked about on radios, and told to families throughout the generations. Seeing how life was during the 1930s in the movie, The Cinderella Man, was a great eye opener to how the people of this time truly survived and kept their true humanity in times of havoc. The time of the 1930s should be an inspiration to the nation and cause many to do well and live life smart and prosperous.
To start, 1920s-30s were mainly about the children's change from working to learning. In the 1920s children in the city were seen by society as adults that needed to be working. Rural kids worked on their farms as soon as they could. This was expected
2. Life in the 1930’s was bad because of the great depression. The great depression provided an end . At the beginning of the 1930s, more than 15 million Americans- fully one quarter of all wage- earning workers were enemployed. President Herbert Hover argued with all americans needed to get them through this passing. October 29, 1929 povided a dramatic end to an era of unprecedentedly. This disaster had been brewing for years. During the depression, most people did not have much money to spare. However most people did have radios and listening to the radio was free. As difficult of the great depression as the enomic crisis of the great depression was for white americans, it was even harder on racial minorities, including black anmericans,
American society has been affected over the years due to many people and laws. Athletes and sports have had their share of effect on society as well. Almost three fourths of society has played or watched some kind of sporting event. Where would society be today without sports? No one will ever know, but sports and athletes have affected society in many aspects all over the nation. Sports have brought people in the American society closer together. Some states in America rely on sports to help out with their economy, but sports have also created problems for society. Sports like golf, basketball, baseball, football and boxing all have effected American Society in their ow...
Sports played and continue to play a pivotal role in American history and culture. Baseball provided an escape from the stress and frustration of WWII, a beacon of light during hard times and later helped influence integration. Athletes became symbols of what being a true American meant and many sports enhanced American culture. One of the most prolific changes sports brought to our society was the beginning of racial equality on the field. It encouraged and aided the fledgling equal rights movement that evolved in the 1960s. African American athletes were considered second-class citizen until sports provided the first taste of equality. Teams life the Indians, Dodgers and Giants led the way for all teams to accept black players on equal footing. More sports then followed, helping to pave the way for the equal rights movement. African American athletes provided a spark of social and cultural change as America was at the emergence of the civil rights movement.
Sports may have impacted our culture much more then we thought it would, and keeps impacting. Sports have affected some of the most important aspects of life, such as jobs and money. It has also affected things as little as who we look up to and how we dress. Culture means “the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively.” The definition of sports is “an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment.” So when we put two and two together we get a a nation or world that has changed due to sports. Back in the mid and late 1900’s sports were used to see whose way of life was better. As time went on and keeps going on, we
In the United States, we spend about 13% of our money on sports and entertainment. Sports has obviously done its job; entertained and drained money out of our pockets. A young boy goes up to his mother and says, "Mommy! I want to be a baseball player!" If this was said in 1930, the boy's mother probably would have told the boy, "That's not the future for you!