1920s

Rogers Hornsby
Rogers Hornsby kneeling on the field at Wrigley Field, 1926.
Source: American Memory: Chicago Daily News
 

 

Lou Gehrig at Columbia

Source: www.geocities.com/.../ Arena/5866/gehrig.html

The Gehrig Swing
Source: www.sexypopculture.com

1926 World Champion St. Louis Cardinals
Source: Bruce Chadwick and David M. Spindel's The St. Louis Cardinals: Over 100 Years of Baseball Memories and Memorabilia

 

More than a million citizens of St. Louis came out to welcome the Cardinals home after they grabbed the 1926 World Series over the New York Yankees.
Source: Bruce Chadwick and David M. Spindel's The St. Louis Cardinals: Over 100 Years of Baseball Memories and Memorabilia

 

The Death of Ray Chapman
Source: New York Times, August 18, 1920

Connie Mack, 1929 Philadelphia Athletics
Source: Neal McCabe and Constance McCabe's Baseball's Golden Age: The Photographs of Charles M. Conlon

 

Jim Bottomley
Source: Frederick G. Lieb's The St. Louis Cardinals: The Story of a Great Baseball Club

Rogers Hornsby and Hack Wilson, Chicago Cubs, with Al Simmons and Jimmie Foxx, Philadelphia Athletics, at the 1929 World Series. The series was won by Philadelphia 4 games to 1.
Source: library.louisville.edu

 

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