During the first 45 years of Major League Baseball, any person who desired to know the events of a game had to be present at the ballpark or at the location at which the game was being played. Fortunately, for the game of baseball and for the American people, in 1921, radio stations began broadcasting baseball games to the American people who could not be at the ballpark, whether it was a financial matter, if the venue was sold out, or if the people were simply unable to make it in time to see the game. American economic prosperity of the 1920s, along with the growth of materialism, beneficially affected both the radio and Major League Baseball, which beneficially affected each other and the American people.
During the 1920s, America had…