Roaring Twenties: Sports - Baseball

Discusses the careers of several baseball stars known for their home run hitting, including Babe Ruth, Roger Maris, Hank Aaron, Mark McGuire, and Sammy Sosa.

A collection of baseball anecdotes, stories, and trivia placing baseball in context within life in America.

Discusses the history of the New York Yankees professional baseball team, and looks at the lives and careers of players Joe DeMaggio, Lou Gehrig, Mickey Mantle, Reggie Jackson, Derek Jeter, and Babe Ruth, and manager Casey Stengel.

Profiles more than one hundred remarkable African-Americans, including activists, educators, writers, musicians, and various other types of history makers, as well as important periods and landmarks in African-American history, such as the Harlem Renaissance and the Emancipation Proclamation.

Highlights one hundred significant moments in baseball history through a collection of over four hundred photographs from the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, accompanied by explanatory text.

Presents a collection of illustrated stories about the men who help popularize and immortalize the sport of baseball, from Ty Cobb and Shoeless Joe Jackson to Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays and more.

Explores the development of the United States from 1917 to 1945, covering including the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, and World War II.

Contains approximately 160 primary sources on American history and culture from 1920 to 1929, featuring many different types of sources, arranged chronologically in twelve categories, including the arts, education, government and politics, media, medicine and health, religion, and sports.

Contains alphabetized, cross-referenced entries on American history that discuss events, movements, people, trends, political developments, and related topics from the early twentieth century; and includes primary documents, a chronology, bibliography, and index.

Examines the history of the United States from the Great War to the stock market crash of 1929 through biographical accounts of sixty Americans who had an influence on events of the period, each with portraits, photographs, and related primary documents.

Presents a collection of entries that provide information on the 1920s in the U.S., including the political, economic, technological, and social events during the decade, and provides full and excerpted documents that offer a range of perspectives the period. Includes sidebar boxes and illustrations.

Contains profiles, ranked in order of significance, of the world's most influential heroes of all time.

Dramatizes the story of Lou Gehrig, the Yankee's great first baseman and son of poor immigrants, who rose to the heights of baseball fame only to fall at the peak of his career to an incurable illness known as ALS.

Examines the life of one of the best known figures in the history of baseball, home-run hitter Babe Ruth.