My topic was sports in the 1930s.
Lets talk about teh second most popular sport was boxing. Most people liked it because of the heavy gambling that was involved with boxing. People would still gamble even during the depression, and most people didnt have money they would still gamble. Radio also took money from the people. Boxing got even more popular even the champion Gene Tunney retired and they fought several matches and Maz schemling ended up being the new champion.
Baseball Baseball was the most popular sport. Baseball really severed during the Depression. People who actually came to the games really dropped. The Yankees were the baseball power house. Lou Gehrig was the highest paid player with a salary of 41,000 a year.
Football also really suffered. A couple of teams dropped out of the league because they didnt have any money to keep it going. And teams they did stay in the league were losing money because noone would come to the games
They even postponed the Winter Olympics was even postponed. Horse racing was a big thing.
http://www.enotes.com/1930-sports-american-decades/boxing
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3468301367.html
http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade30.html
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