The Legacy Of Babe Ruth

The world is a very different place than what it was in the 1920’s; however, despite our differences, many things have stayed the same. No matter what, there’s always something to refer back to. Nearly one-hundred years ago, the 1920’s holds a great deal of historical events that changed the world. One of these historical events is when Babe Ruth changed the outlook on negro leagues and african american baseball players. Ruth could do many things that other people couldn’t in baseball. He in general was an amazing baseball player, but he also did something much more, something that would change the world’s views of not just him, but everybody.

Babe Ruth, or George Herman as his birth name states, was born February 6, 1895 in Baltimore, Maryland.

Babe Ruth is still a very well-known person in history today, even almost one-hundred years later. He did not only change the way people viewed negro baseball leagues, but he also gained a large reputation for his ability to play baseball, obviously due to his amazing abilities. Ruth’s ability to play was almost impossibly good, in fact, he was even titled “athlete of the century” for his ability. With that ability and power that he had once he won, he would become a

In The Great Gatsby, there are several references that refer back to how society was in the 1920’s For example, the symbolism of a corrupt nation is very clear if you dig deep enough. Baseball was growing big in the 1920’s, with the addition of new things available after the first world-war, but society standards separated African American baseball players from playing, which is very similar to the way that the lower, middle, and upper classes of society were separated in The Great Gatsby. In the book, Nick states, “The idea staggered me. I remembered, of course, that the World’s Series had been fixed in 1919, but if I had thought of it at all I would have thought of it as a thing that merely happened, the end of some inevitable chain. It never occurred to me that one man could start to play with the faith of fifty million people—with the single-mindedness of a burglar blowing a safe” (Fitzgerald 113). This show’s nicks uncertainty on society’s