THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
1920S AMERICAN CULTURE
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Ruth created the idea of the assembly line, making cars much more affordable for Americans.
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Ruth was a baseball star who became America’s first celebrity athlete.
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Ruth flew in an airplane from New York to Paris
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Ruth was a famous jazz musician of the era.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Ruth first gained fame as a pitcher. Although best remembered for swatting a prodigious 714 home runs and slugging . 690, which remains a major-league record, Babe Ruth was one of baseball’s most dominant left-handed pitchers in the 1910s.
Detailed explanation-2: -Because, as Jane Leavy details in her new biography, The Big Fella, Ruth wasn’t just the first baseball superstar. He was also a movie star, a vaudeville performer, a barnstormer, a pitchman for every conceivable product, and a nationally syndicated newspaper columnist. He was the first celebrity of the mass media era.
Detailed explanation-3: -He is the greatest hitter ever; his . 690 career slugging percentage is 82 points higher than Reggie Jackson’s best season. Ruth dominated his era like no one else: His 54 home runs in 1920 were more than the next three players in his league combined, and only one American League team outhomered him that year.
Detailed explanation-4: -National Pastime Museum: KING KELLY: BASEBALL’S FIRST CELEBRITY. This Walter Chickering cabinet photograph shows Mike “King” Kelly in all his splendor. Writer Mary Appel writes of Kelly’s celebrity status as 19th century baseball’s most famous long ball hitter.