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31 Cards in this Set
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3 main stages of baseball history |
1. 1600s simple bat and ball game played by children 2. 1840s Bringing men together, about the social aspect 3. 1860s became the national game |
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How did the civil war affect baseball |
Used to pass time, spread the game through the country, start of the enclosure movement |
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Who was the first fully professionalized baseball team |
Cincinnati red stocking Motivated other cities to develop their own teams |
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Which two leagues because the MLB today |
National League - the dominant league, treated players badly American League - was the first to give the NFL a real challenge |
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When and why was the players league created |
1890 because players were unhappy about the reserve clause |
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What is the Abner Doubleday myth |
That he was the war hero that created baseball to make the sport more american |
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What was the black sox scandal |
- 1919 Chicago white six - 8 players took money from gamblers - created the lifetime ban for gambling |
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Baseball parallel institutions |
Black leagues Japanese leagues Barnstorming |
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Who was the first to reintegrate baseball |
Jackie Robinson for the Brooklyn dodgers |
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Alexander Cartwright |
1845 new York knickerbockers Was the first to start recruiting the good players |
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Who founded the national league in1876 |
William Harbert and Albert spalding |
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Who turned the western league into the American league |
Ban Johnson |
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Who became the first commissioner of baseball and in what year |
Kennesaw Mountain Landis 1922 |
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Indianapolis Clowns |
Black barnstorming team |
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Who was the first famous female baseball player |
Izzie Arlington |
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What was the javits amendment to title IX |
Allowed schools to spend different amounts based on the needs of certain sports |
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Grove City vs bell |
That if any part of the Institution recieves federal funding title IX applies to the whole thing |
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HEW |
Health education and welfare Created policies for title IX |
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DOE |
Department of education |
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What is Michael Oriards meaning of football |
To display the human capacity to withstand violence and create beauty from it |
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What are the 3 most important rule changes for football |
1. Scrimmage 2. Downs and possessions 3. The forward pass |
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How did American exceptionalism apply to football |
It caused teams to test the rules which has cause many changed |
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What tension in football |
Between if it should be for everybody or if it should follow concepts of scientific racism |
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When did professional football become segregated |
When Jim Thorpe became the president |
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Who reintegrated football |
Kenny Washington Woody Strode |
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Walter Camp |
Football could not take hold in other countries because each country has its own football spirit |
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Casper Whitney |
Ha aristocratic views that football should only be for the upper class |
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Who was considered one of the greatest football coaches in college history |
Knute Rockne for the University of Notre Dame |
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What schools played in the first black collegiate football game |
Biddle University and Livingston College |
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Who was the first black coach in the NFL |
Fritz Pollard |
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Who was the first professional football player and in what year |
Pudge Heffelfinger in 1892 |
