Kin 2501 Final LSU Jacobsen Exam |
156 Complete Questions and
Answers
Babe Ruth - -"Media Darling
- What about Babe Ruth made fans love him? - -Strategy, Excitement, Fan
base
- What team was Babe Ruth on? - -Red Sox
- What team was Babe Ruth traded to? - -Yankees
- How many home runs did Babe Ruth get and in what year? - -60; 1972
- How many consecutive games and hits did Joe DiMaggio get? - -56;56
- Who was the complete opposite of Babe Ruth, to himself, not social? - -Joe
Dimaggio
- Who was DiMaggio involved with - -Marilyn Monroe
- Who organized the National Association of Colored Baseball Cubs? - -
Andrew "Rube" Foster
- Who was Babe Didrickson? - -professional female athlete
golf and many other sports
Qualified for the men's PGA
- Who was president of the Professional Football League? - -Jim Thorpe
- Who buys the Decator team and where does he move them? - -George
Halas, Chicago
- What was Red Grange's nickname - -Galloping Ghost
- Where was Red Grange a star? - -Illinois State
- Who does Grange sign with? - -Bears
- What did Grange bring to football? - -stability
- Who coaches the first game at Kentucky in 1930? - -Adolph Rupp
, - What was special about Rupp's team? - -tempo and fast break style
- Who formed the Savory Big 5? - -Abe Saperstein
- How did he get games? - -Renames the team "New York"
- What does Abe rename them to and why? - -Harlem Globe Trotters; To let
people know they're a black team (draw a crowd)
- T/F They aren't considered the best barnstorming team. - -False
- How many exhibition games did the Globe Trotters play and who did they
play against? - -George Mikan's Minneapolis Lakers (NBA Champs); two
exhibition games
- What was Joe Louis' nickname and what was he? - -The Brown Bomber;
Heavy weight champ
- Reformers had a three year procedure that blened the working class &
sport. What were some concerns? - -1st 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? - -Black Sox Scandal
- How did the black sox scandal affect baseball? - -Baseball 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? - -Kennesaw Mountain Landis
- What was wrong with Landis and what did he do? - -He was racist and
banned the 8 White Sox
The commissioner had a lot of power from the beginning
- Beginning of the modern Olympics - -1896
- Where was the first modern Olympics held? - -Held in Athens, Greece
- Who was responsible for getting 1986 games going - -Pierre duCoubertin
156 Complete Questions and
Answers
Babe Ruth - -"Media Darling
- What about Babe Ruth made fans love him? - -Strategy, Excitement, Fan
base
- What team was Babe Ruth on? - -Red Sox
- What team was Babe Ruth traded to? - -Yankees
- How many home runs did Babe Ruth get and in what year? - -60; 1972
- How many consecutive games and hits did Joe DiMaggio get? - -56;56
- Who was the complete opposite of Babe Ruth, to himself, not social? - -Joe
Dimaggio
- Who was DiMaggio involved with - -Marilyn Monroe
- Who organized the National Association of Colored Baseball Cubs? - -
Andrew "Rube" Foster
- Who was Babe Didrickson? - -professional female athlete
golf and many other sports
Qualified for the men's PGA
- Who was president of the Professional Football League? - -Jim Thorpe
- Who buys the Decator team and where does he move them? - -George
Halas, Chicago
- What was Red Grange's nickname - -Galloping Ghost
- Where was Red Grange a star? - -Illinois State
- Who does Grange sign with? - -Bears
- What did Grange bring to football? - -stability
- Who coaches the first game at Kentucky in 1930? - -Adolph Rupp
, - What was special about Rupp's team? - -tempo and fast break style
- Who formed the Savory Big 5? - -Abe Saperstein
- How did he get games? - -Renames the team "New York"
- What does Abe rename them to and why? - -Harlem Globe Trotters; To let
people know they're a black team (draw a crowd)
- T/F They aren't considered the best barnstorming team. - -False
- How many exhibition games did the Globe Trotters play and who did they
play against? - -George Mikan's Minneapolis Lakers (NBA Champs); two
exhibition games
- What was Joe Louis' nickname and what was he? - -The Brown Bomber;
Heavy weight champ
- Reformers had a three year procedure that blened the working class &
sport. What were some concerns? - -1st 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? - -Black Sox Scandal
- How did the black sox scandal affect baseball? - -Baseball 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? - -Kennesaw Mountain Landis
- What was wrong with Landis and what did he do? - -He was racist and
banned the 8 White Sox
The commissioner had a lot of power from the beginning
- Beginning of the modern Olympics - -1896
- Where was the first modern Olympics held? - -Held in Athens, Greece
- Who was responsible for getting 1986 games going - -Pierre duCoubertin
