1920's Cultural Website

        Babe Ruth became the cornerstone for one of the most dominant teams in the history of baseball. Between 1920 and 1933 Babe Ruth and the New York Yankees won 7 pennants and 4 World Series championships. Ruth captivated the American public in the 1927 season when he hit a record 60 homeruns. Ruth played his last game with the New York Yankees in 1934. He finished his career with 714 homeruns. Ruth died on August 16, 1948 from throat cancer.

        Imapct-Babe Ruth may be the single most influential person in American sports history. Babe Ruth arrived on the baseball scene at a time when America’s past time was in shambles when eight Chicago White Sox was accused for taking bribes from gamblers to throw the World Series.To American citizens baseball represented everything good about society, for a scandal as large in magnitude as the Black Sox Scandal to corrupt baseball was a terrible tragedy for the American public. America felt betrayed by the scandal, what they needed was a hero to save baseball. That hero was Babe Ruth. While "The Babe" hit hundreds of home runs out of the park in the 20’s and 30’s the fans coming into the parks to see Babe Ruth grew by the thousands. As fans flocked to see Babe Ruth the Black Sox scandal faded into the distant memories of the American public. "The Babe’s" impact upon society was so great that when the New York Yankees opened Yankee Stadium in 1923, it was nicknamed "the house that Ruth built."