Other+sports

Other Sports:

Basketball- in the 1950s college basketball became a decently major sport. In 1950, 3 black players joined the NBA. Boston Celtics selected the first black player into NBA, Charles Cooper in the second round.

Boxing- because of the Jet airplane era in 1958, more worldwide fights happened because people could fly city to city for far distances very fast. Golf- In 1950, the Masters winner was Jimmy Demaret, US open was Ben Hogan, British open was Bobby Locke

In 1953 Ben Hogan pulled off one of the only triple crown’s in golf history, winning the Masters, U.S. Open, and British Open. Because of this he was named the athlete of the year.

The Detroit Red Wings win an amazing 4 Stanley cups in the 1950’s only to seem foolish because of the Montreal Canaadien’s 5 wins

Throughout the cold war there were several American tennis stars who were send into Russia in order to compete with the soviet union