Baseball 2020 Started on April 15th, 1920

Baseball 2020 Started on April 15th, 1920

by Bill Russo

Babe Ruth 1919: As a Pitcher 9 and 5.  As a hitter - 29 Home Runs - A WORLD RECORD! 

The 2020 baseball season started on April 15, 1920 

(if you turn the clock back one hundred years)

The Boston Red Sox who won the world series just two years ago in 1918, slipped to sixth place last year and hope for better things in 1920. 

The sox are hosting the Washington Senators at six year old Fenway Park for the first game of the 1920 season. The Nats are led by sure hall of famer Walter Johnson. The Big Train won 20 games last season for the hopeless Capital City team which finished 7th last year with a 56 and 84 record, ten wins behind the sox who finished in sixth place. 

The Red Sox are sorely going to miss their star pitcher Babe Ruth who will wear a New York Yankee uniform this year after being traded the day after Christmas last year for $25,000. 

The Boston club didn't even get a minor league player for Ruth, who went 9 and 5 last year as a part time hurler. As a batter the Babe played about 130 games in the field. He hit 322 and led the league in home runs with 29 - it is the most home runs ever in the long history of baseball in America. The Red Sox are hoping that Harry Hooper will pick up the slack left by the Babe's departure. Hooper was second on the team last year in home runs - 26. 26 behind Babe Ruth with 3!

This was the Curse of the Bambino and it lasted from 1919 until 2004 when they finally won another World Series. 

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