Sports timeline Summary

1960s: Sports and Games The 1960s saw professional sports finally attain dominance in the hearts of American sports fans. The overlapping seasons of professional baseball, football, hockey, and basket... Read more

1990s: Sports and Games The 1990s boasted some of the greatest athletes and athletic achievements of the century, and saw a real flowering in women's sports. Leading the way was the man who man... Read more

Out of Bounds. Judging solely by media coverage, most of what was newsworthy in sports during the 1990s had little to do with the field of play. Athletics—professional, amateur, and casual—had be... Read more

Big Business. Sports in the 1970s was very big business. Television had reshaped the sports industry in the decade before, and now the businessmen went to work to exploit their market. Football, base... Read more

More than a Game. "He who would know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball," observed culturist Jacques Barzun. To look at baseball and other sports to see how they wove t... Read more

The Golden Age Ends. The 1920s were called the golden age of sports. Every sport seemed to be dominated by a single personality. Though several of these athletes were still active in the 1930s, the g... Read more

Roosevelt as Symbol. More than any athlete of the 1900s, Theodore Roosevelt epitomized the sporting character of the decade. In 1900, the year before he became the twenty-sixth president of the Unite... Read more