Babe Ruth and Lindbergh

Describe heroes of baseball and flight.

Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.

What children learn in Level 30

Radios and newspapers made sports stars and pilots famous in a whole new way. Americans loved heroes in the 1920s.
Babe Ruth was baseball's biggest star. Ruth played for the New York Yankees and hit 60 home runs in 1927, far more than anyone had before.
But major league baseball kept Black players out. So Black players and owners built their own teams and the Negro Leagues, full of great talent.
Charles Lindbergh was a young pilot. In May 1927, Lindbergh took off from New York, alone, in a small plane called the Spirit of St. Louis.
About 33 hours later, the plane landed near Paris. It was the first solo, nonstop flight across the Atlantic. Remember the Wright brothers? Only 24 years had passed.

Georgia Standards of Excellence in Social Studies:

SS5H2.b — Describe the cultural developments and individual contributions in the 1920s of the Jazz Age (Louis Armstrong), the Harlem Renaissance (Langston Hughes), baseball (Babe Ruth), the automobile (Henry Ford), and transatlantic flight (Charles Lindbergh).