Baseball in 1920

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EPISODE SUMMARY

This week on Hello Old Sports we continue our journey back to 1920 with a look at all of the big events in baseball from that monumental year. Rube Foster founded the Negro League. Babe Ruth came to the Yankees. Carl Mays killed Ray Chapman with a pitch. Kenesaw Mountain Landis banned the Black Sox for life. We'll talk about it all this week.

BOOKS TO COMPLIMENT THIS SERIES

The Selling of the Babe: The Deal That Changed Baseball and Created a Legend

Eddie Cicotte: The Life and Career of the Banned Black Sox Pitcher

Complete History of the Negro Leagues: 1884 to 1955

The Pitch That Killed: The Story of Carl Mays, Ray Chapman, and the Pennant Race of 1920

HELLO OLD SPORTS BACKGROUND

Each week on “Hello, Old Sports” Andrew and Dan Neumann examine a different sports history topic—baseball, basketball, football, hockey, boxing, and anything else that comes to mind. We’ll travel back to 1920 to relive the founding of the Negro Leagues and Babe Ruth’s first season with the New York Yankees.

Or to 1967 to relive the closing drive of the “Ice Bowl” between the Green Bay Packers and the Dallas Cowboys. Maybe even all the way back to 1884 and the first “World Series” between the Providence Grays of the National League and the New York Metropolitans of the American Association.

Andrew and Dan Neumann are your hosts and these brothers know a thing or two about living in some crazy sport's towns.

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