Baseball
World Series
- 5–12 October — Cleveland Indians (AL) defeats Brooklyn Dodgers (NL) to win the 1920 World Series by 5 games to 2
Major League Baseball
- The sale of Babe Ruth. Boston Red Sox transfers Babe Ruth to New York Yankees for $125,000 and a $350,000 loan. Ruth hits 54 home runs for the Yankees in 1920, nearly double the record of 29 he hit in the 1919 season.
- 16 August — Ray Chapman of Cleveland Indians is hit on the head by a fastball from Carl Mays of New York Yankees. He dies early next day, the second fatality of major league play.
- Chicago White Sox stars Eddie Cicotte and Shoeless Joe Jackson confess their roles in the Black Sox scandal
Negro League Baseball
- 13 February — the Negro National League is formed
- 2 May — the first game of the new league is played at Indianapolis with the Indianapolis ABCs defeating the Chicago Giants (not to be confused with the Chicago American Giants)
- Chicago American Giants wins the inaugural Negro National League pennant
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