A real-time account of the tumultuous 1920 baseball season, focusing on the dramatic last half.

Babe Ruth, in his first season with the Yankees in 1920, was on pace to break the single-season home run record. In August Indians shortstop Ray Chapman was bea

A Companion to American Sport History presents a collection of original essays that represent the first comprehensive analysis of scholarship relating to the gr

Though his pitching career lasted only a few seasons, Howard Ellsworth “Smoky Joe” Wood was one of the most dominating figures in baseball history—a man m

The careers of pitchers Jack Quinn and Howard Ehmke began in the Deadball Era and peaked in the 1920s. They were teammates for many years, with both the cellar-