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In 1952, a pitcher by the name of Bobby Shantz won the MVP award.  He lead the leage in wins with 25, and had one of the lowest ERAs at 2.48.  He played for the Philadelphia Phillies.

This link gives a detailed description of the 1950 World Series.  The series was played between the New York Yankees and the Philadelphia Phillies.  The Yankees swept the Phillies winning 4 games in a row.

In 1947, Ted Williams won the high coveted Triple Crown.  This award is not given to someone each year, the honor is earned by a player leading his league in bating average, home runs, AND RBIs.  This award is quite a rare feat in Major League Baseball.  Ted Williams is one of just two men (the other is Roger Hornsby) to win this award twice.  The site in my source shows a list of all of basbeall's triple crown winners in history.

This is an excellent link about Major League Baseball during WWII.  Many professional baseball players answered the call to serve their country in the midst of the greatest war the world had ever seen.  Many heroes were born during this time and a lot of them came from Major League Baseball.

The 1930s was a much different time in baseball than the Golden Age of the 1920s.  The Great Depression that started in 1929 took its toll on Major League Baseball.  Attendance thinned as fans could not afford the luxury of watching their favorite teams play.  Player salaries did not dip, but they did stop rising as they had throughout the 1920s.

This link gives details about baseball in the 1920s and why this decade was called baseball's "Golden Age".  It tells about the huge role Babe Ruth Played in this era.  Also, the invention of the radio helped spread the popularity of the game.

This is a photo of a horse race around 1840. The link to the websight gives a little insight on early horse racing. It explains how plantation owners bought, trained, and bet on horses. Also, it tells how slaves worked in stables and also sometimes raced the horses. http://www.librarycompany.org/shadoweconomy/section5_1.htm

This link tells the winner of the second annual Grand National Horse Race. The race happened on March 5, 1840. The winning horse's name was Jerry and his Jockey was named Bartholomew Bretherton.

From this website, you could order some replicas of things that early republic Americans did for fun in the late 18th and early 19th centuries!

George Washington on "Eagle" who saved Washington's life as I referred to in my last post. Source: http://lensofhistory.com/2013/08/24/warhorses-4-famous-mounted-companions/

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