KIN 2501 - Final Exam Review
Questions and Answers
Pittsburgh Crawfords - -popularly known as the Craws; were a professional
Negro league baseball team
- Joe DiMaggio - -nicknamed "Joltin' Joe" and "The Yankee Clipper"; was an
American baseball center fielder who played his entire 13-year career in
Major League Baseball for the NY Yankees
- Homestead Grays - -a professional team that played in the Negro leagues
in Pittsburgh
- won 9 straight league titles from 1937-48 & 3 Negro World Series
championships in that span
- Birmingham Barons - -played in many Southern leagues during the early
years of baseball
- the team was called the Birmingham Coal Barons, a direct reference to the
area's biggest industry
- Indianapolis Clowns - -a professional baseball team in the Negro American
League
- tracing their origins back to the 1930s, the ________ were the last of the
Negro league teams to disband, continuing to play exhibition games into the
1980s
- Josh Gibson - -an American baseball catcher primarily in the negro leagues
- considered the be among the very best power hitters and catchers in
baseball history
- in 1972, he became the 2nd Negro league player to be inducted in the
National Baseball Hall of Fame
- Cool Papa Bell - -James Thomas "Cool Papa" Bell was an American center
fielder in Negro league baseball from 1922 to 1946
- considered to have been one of the fastest men ever to play the game
- elected to the Baseball hall of fame in 1974
- Satchel Paige - -- an American professional baseball pitcher who played in
Negro league baseball and major league baseball
- his career spanned 5 decades and culminated with his induction into the
national baseball hall of fame
- Babe Didrickson - -most significant female athlete of the first half of the
20th century
, - great at every sport (basketball, softball, tennis, track & field)
- broke 4 world record and won team championship when she entered 1932
AAU track & field championships as only member of the Employers' Casualty
Company Team
- won 3 gold and 1 silver medal at 1932 Olympics
- then went on to play gold and qualified for men's PGA event
- George Mikan - -nicknamed "Mr. Basketball", was an American
professional basketball player for the Chicago American Gears of the NBA
and the Minneapolis Lakers
- Savoy Big 5 - -- black Chicago-based team formed by Abe Saperstein
- later renamed Harlem Globetrotters
- became funny to appeal to crowds
- Joe Louis - -The Brown Bomber
- heavyweight champ
- hero to black youth
- quiet, polite, humble
- Babe Ruth - -American icon, 1914-1935
- popularized the home run
- first player to teach home run totals of 30, 40, 50, & 60
- his power hitting changed baseball from a pitcher-dominated, scratch-out-
a-run game to a homer-hitting contest
- nickname was "Sultan of Swat", referring to his batting prowess
- first and largest "media darling"; becomes the face of his sport, and a
symbol of America
- 1940 & 1944 olympic games - -these games were cancelled because of
WWII
- 1948 - London - -- British agreed to host the games even though much of
the city was devastated by the German blitzkrieg
- German and Japanese athletes were excluded from the games because of
their actions in WWII
- Bob Mathias --> decathlon
- Alice Coachman --> high jump
- Alice Coachman - -1st African American woman to capture Olympic gold
medal in 1948 in London
- became the 1st African American female athletic champion to sign a
product endorsement for a multinational corporation, Coca Cola
- Audrey Patterson - -Alice Coachman's teammate, who was the first African
American woman to win a medal at the Olympic games- bronze medal
Questions and Answers
Pittsburgh Crawfords - -popularly known as the Craws; were a professional
Negro league baseball team
- Joe DiMaggio - -nicknamed "Joltin' Joe" and "The Yankee Clipper"; was an
American baseball center fielder who played his entire 13-year career in
Major League Baseball for the NY Yankees
- Homestead Grays - -a professional team that played in the Negro leagues
in Pittsburgh
- won 9 straight league titles from 1937-48 & 3 Negro World Series
championships in that span
- Birmingham Barons - -played in many Southern leagues during the early
years of baseball
- the team was called the Birmingham Coal Barons, a direct reference to the
area's biggest industry
- Indianapolis Clowns - -a professional baseball team in the Negro American
League
- tracing their origins back to the 1930s, the ________ were the last of the
Negro league teams to disband, continuing to play exhibition games into the
1980s
- Josh Gibson - -an American baseball catcher primarily in the negro leagues
- considered the be among the very best power hitters and catchers in
baseball history
- in 1972, he became the 2nd Negro league player to be inducted in the
National Baseball Hall of Fame
- Cool Papa Bell - -James Thomas "Cool Papa" Bell was an American center
fielder in Negro league baseball from 1922 to 1946
- considered to have been one of the fastest men ever to play the game
- elected to the Baseball hall of fame in 1974
- Satchel Paige - -- an American professional baseball pitcher who played in
Negro league baseball and major league baseball
- his career spanned 5 decades and culminated with his induction into the
national baseball hall of fame
- Babe Didrickson - -most significant female athlete of the first half of the
20th century
, - great at every sport (basketball, softball, tennis, track & field)
- broke 4 world record and won team championship when she entered 1932
AAU track & field championships as only member of the Employers' Casualty
Company Team
- won 3 gold and 1 silver medal at 1932 Olympics
- then went on to play gold and qualified for men's PGA event
- George Mikan - -nicknamed "Mr. Basketball", was an American
professional basketball player for the Chicago American Gears of the NBA
and the Minneapolis Lakers
- Savoy Big 5 - -- black Chicago-based team formed by Abe Saperstein
- later renamed Harlem Globetrotters
- became funny to appeal to crowds
- Joe Louis - -The Brown Bomber
- heavyweight champ
- hero to black youth
- quiet, polite, humble
- Babe Ruth - -American icon, 1914-1935
- popularized the home run
- first player to teach home run totals of 30, 40, 50, & 60
- his power hitting changed baseball from a pitcher-dominated, scratch-out-
a-run game to a homer-hitting contest
- nickname was "Sultan of Swat", referring to his batting prowess
- first and largest "media darling"; becomes the face of his sport, and a
symbol of America
- 1940 & 1944 olympic games - -these games were cancelled because of
WWII
- 1948 - London - -- British agreed to host the games even though much of
the city was devastated by the German blitzkrieg
- German and Japanese athletes were excluded from the games because of
their actions in WWII
- Bob Mathias --> decathlon
- Alice Coachman --> high jump
- Alice Coachman - -1st African American woman to capture Olympic gold
medal in 1948 in London
- became the 1st African American female athletic champion to sign a
product endorsement for a multinational corporation, Coca Cola
- Audrey Patterson - -Alice Coachman's teammate, who was the first African
American woman to win a medal at the Olympic games- bronze medal
