Baseball continued to dominate the American sports scene in the 1910s. Attendance at professional baseball games remained high throughout the decade, rising slightly from 6,206,447 in 1910 to 6,532,439 in 1919; the numbers might have been higher...
Byline: Dick Heller, THE WASHINGTON TIMES "The game of base ball is a clean, straight game, and it summons to its presence everybody who enjoys clean, straight athletics." - President William Howard Taft, 1910 Everybody knew the nation's 27th president loved...
IN THE SECOND DECADE OF THE CENTURY, as the gross national product rose, Americans benefited from mass production and shared in the good life. They bought automobiles (10 million ). The term recreation came into use and trips to the great outdoors were pursued...
