5 storyies in Sports
In 1927, Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs — more than any other entire team in the American League. He didn't just change baseball. He saved it, then reinvented it from the ground up.
On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson took the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers and broke Major League Baseball's color barrier. What followed was one of the most consequential and brutal tests of character in American sports history.
In August 1936, a Black man from Alabama won four Olympic gold medals in front of Adolf Hitler. Jesse Owens didn't just win races — he demolished the ideology that the Games were designed to showcase.
On February 22, 1980, a team of college kids beat the most dominant hockey dynasty in the world. It wasn't just a sports story. It was the story of a country that desperately needed to believe in something.
Muhammad Ali was the heavyweight champion of the world three times. He was also a draft resister, a civil rights icon, and the most recognizable human being on earth for the better part of three decades. There has never been anyone like him.