1920 in sports
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Baseball
- January 3 - Boston Red Sox owner Harry Frazee sells Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees for $125,000 and a $350,000 loan, beginning "The curse of the Bambino". This was the prelude to an extraordinary Major League season during which the Bambino would hit 54 home runs, Cleveland shortstop Ray Chapman would be killed by a pitch from Carl Mays, and Eddie Cicotte and Shoeless Joe Jackson would confess to their roles in the Black Sox scandal.
- February 13 - The Negro National League of baseball is formed.
- May 2 - The first game of the Negro National League baseball is played in Indianapolis, Indiana.
- August 16 - Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians is hit in his head and fatally wounded with a fastball from Carl Mays of the New York Yankees. Chapman will die early the next day, becoming the only person to ever die from a major league baseball game (as of 2004).
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