The 1920 Indians might be the most overlooked World Series team in history. They weren't even the biggest baseball story at the time they won it.
The Black Six scandal broke a few weeks before the 1920 season ended. Comiskey immediately suspended the players involved, and Chicago collapsed, just as the Indians got hot. The Indians had played very well, until Chapman was killed. They slumped for a while, but recovered. Nevertheless, some folks didn't think Cleveland was a legitimate pennant winner.
But the Black Sox scandal wasn't the only thing that overshadowed the World Series. A young kid named Babe Ruth was sold to the Yankees and slugged an unimaginable 54 home runs in 1920. A new age of baseball had arrived. The Yankees began their dominance the next year.
1920 saw the end of the Spanish flu pandemic and the beginning of Prohibition....and the Roaring Twenties...and sports exploded onto the American consciousness.
Along with Babe Ruth, Americans couldn't get enough news of Jack Dempsey, Jim Thorpe, Bill Tilden, Red Grange, and a little Catholic university's football team in South Bend, Indiana.
Nobody cared about the 1920 Cleveland Indians World Series.
