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Playing for keeps: A history of early baseball (Cornell University Press, 2014). Hoffmann, Frank, Gerhard Falk, and Martin J. Manning. Football and American identity (Routledge, 2013). Riess, Steven. "The Cyclical History of Horse Racing: The USA's Oldest and (Sometimes) Most Popular Spectator Sport."
Boxing in the 1920s was an exceptionally popular international sport. [1] Many fights during this era, some 20 years away or so from the television era, were social events with many thousands in attendance, both men and women. World heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey dominated the sport through much of the decade. He won the title in 1919 ...
After World War II, television took on an important role in professional boxing. It was popular because of its relatively low production costs compared with other sports, professional boxing was a major feature of television programming throughout much of the 1950s and early 1960s. [32]
Sports organizations disestablished in the 1920s (12 C) Recurring sporting events disestablished in the 1920s (11 C, 1 P) Recurring sporting events established in the 1920s (11 C, 1 P)
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While baseball is known as "America's national pastime," football is the most popular spectator sport in the United States. According to the Harris Poll , professional football moved ahead of baseball as the fans' favorite in 1965, during the emergence of the NFL's challenger, the American Football League , as a major professional football league.
1920 Summer Olympics The 1920 Summer Olympics takes place in Antwerp The 1916 Summer Olympics planned for Berlin having been cancelled due to World War I , the 1920 Games are awarded to Antwerp to "honour the suffering of the Belgian people"
1920s; 1930s; 1940s; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; Subcategories. This category has the following 43 subcategories, out of 43 total. ... 1920 sports events by month (11 C) /