Kin 2501 Final LSU Jacobsen
Babe Ruth - ANS"Media Darling
What about Babe Ruth made fans love him? - ANSStrategy, Excitement, Fan base
What team was Babe Ruth on? - ANSRed Sox
What team was Babe Ruth traded to? - ANSYankees
How many home runs did Babe Ruth get and in what year? - ANS60; 1972
How many consecutive games and hits did Joe DiMaggio get? - ANS56;56
Who was the complete opposite of Babe Ruth, to himself, not social? - ANSJoe Dimaggio
Who was DiMaggio involved with - ANSMarilyn Monroe
Who organized the National Association of Colored Baseball Cubs? - ANSAndrew "Rube"
Foster
Who was Babe Didrickson? - ANSprofessional female athlete
golf and many other sports
Qualified for the men's PGA
Who was president of the Professional Football League? - ANSJim Thorpe
Who buys the Decator team and where does he move them? - ANSGeorge Halas, Chicago
What was Red Grange's nickname - ANSGalloping Ghost
Where was Red Grange a star? - ANSIllinois State
Who does Grange sign with? - ANSBears
What did Grange bring to football? - ANSstability
Who coaches the first game at Kentucky in 1930? - ANSAdolph Rupp
What was special about Rupp's team? - ANStempo and fast break style
Who formed the Savory Big 5? - ANSAbe Saperstein
, How did he get games? - ANSRenames the team "New York"
What does Abe rename them to and why? - ANSHarlem Globe Trotters; To let people know
they're a black team (draw a crowd)
T/F They aren't considered the best barnstorming team. - ANSFalse
How many exhibition games did the Globe Trotters play and who did they play against? -
ANSGeorge Mikan's Minneapolis Lakers (NBA Champs); two exhibition games
What was Joe Louis' nickname and what was he? - ANSThe Brown Bomber; Heavy weight
champ
Reformers had a three year procedure that blened the working class & sport. What were some
concerns? - ANS1st step: humanitarian concerns - child labor laws (met with resistance from
parents)
2nd step: passes mandatory education laws because unemployed children roamed the streets
(joining gangs, crime)
3rd step: physical education in the schools; supervised games and sport taught deference to
authority.
What was the scandal where 8 White Sox received money to throw a game? - ANSBlack Sox
Scandal
How did the black sox scandal affect baseball? - ANSBaseball was getting tarnished bc of the
gambling going on
Baseball needed a commissioner to bring back the good name of baseball so who did they hire?
- ANSKennesaw Mountain Landis
What was wrong with Landis and what did he do? - ANSHe was racist and banned the 8 White
Sox
The commissioner had a lot of power from the beginning
Beginning of the modern Olympics - ANS1896
Where was the first modern Olympics held? - ANSHeld in Athens, Greece
Who was responsible for getting 1986 games going - ANSPierre duCoubertin
Pierre organized sports festival in ____ and after he was successful, he went to American and
Europe to get people interested in games - ANSFrance
Babe Ruth - ANS"Media Darling
What about Babe Ruth made fans love him? - ANSStrategy, Excitement, Fan base
What team was Babe Ruth on? - ANSRed Sox
What team was Babe Ruth traded to? - ANSYankees
How many home runs did Babe Ruth get and in what year? - ANS60; 1972
How many consecutive games and hits did Joe DiMaggio get? - ANS56;56
Who was the complete opposite of Babe Ruth, to himself, not social? - ANSJoe Dimaggio
Who was DiMaggio involved with - ANSMarilyn Monroe
Who organized the National Association of Colored Baseball Cubs? - ANSAndrew "Rube"
Foster
Who was Babe Didrickson? - ANSprofessional female athlete
golf and many other sports
Qualified for the men's PGA
Who was president of the Professional Football League? - ANSJim Thorpe
Who buys the Decator team and where does he move them? - ANSGeorge Halas, Chicago
What was Red Grange's nickname - ANSGalloping Ghost
Where was Red Grange a star? - ANSIllinois State
Who does Grange sign with? - ANSBears
What did Grange bring to football? - ANSstability
Who coaches the first game at Kentucky in 1930? - ANSAdolph Rupp
What was special about Rupp's team? - ANStempo and fast break style
Who formed the Savory Big 5? - ANSAbe Saperstein
, How did he get games? - ANSRenames the team "New York"
What does Abe rename them to and why? - ANSHarlem Globe Trotters; To let people know
they're a black team (draw a crowd)
T/F They aren't considered the best barnstorming team. - ANSFalse
How many exhibition games did the Globe Trotters play and who did they play against? -
ANSGeorge Mikan's Minneapolis Lakers (NBA Champs); two exhibition games
What was Joe Louis' nickname and what was he? - ANSThe Brown Bomber; Heavy weight
champ
Reformers had a three year procedure that blened the working class & sport. What were some
concerns? - ANS1st step: humanitarian concerns - child labor laws (met with resistance from
parents)
2nd step: passes mandatory education laws because unemployed children roamed the streets
(joining gangs, crime)
3rd step: physical education in the schools; supervised games and sport taught deference to
authority.
What was the scandal where 8 White Sox received money to throw a game? - ANSBlack Sox
Scandal
How did the black sox scandal affect baseball? - ANSBaseball was getting tarnished bc of the
gambling going on
Baseball needed a commissioner to bring back the good name of baseball so who did they hire?
- ANSKennesaw Mountain Landis
What was wrong with Landis and what did he do? - ANSHe was racist and banned the 8 White
Sox
The commissioner had a lot of power from the beginning
Beginning of the modern Olympics - ANS1896
Where was the first modern Olympics held? - ANSHeld in Athens, Greece
Who was responsible for getting 1986 games going - ANSPierre duCoubertin
Pierre organized sports festival in ____ and after he was successful, he went to American and
Europe to get people interested in games - ANSFrance
