Sport History Final

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Moses Fleetwood Walker

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First black player in the MLB

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Paul Robeson

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Talented singer involved with Civil Right Movement

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Branch Rickey

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Manager credited with integrating baseball

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Jackie Robinson

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Credited as first black player in the MLB. Start of the complete integration of baseball

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Larry Dolby

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Player very strongly against MLB integration

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Pacific Coast League

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Great baseball league in the west- opposes MLB

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Joe Louis

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Black heavy weight champion, has to act gentlemanly because of Johnson

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Jesse Owens

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Iconic black track Olympian for USA

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Avery Brundidge

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Nazi sympathizer

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Joe DiMaggio

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Everyone’s favorite baseball player

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Marilyn Monroe

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DiMaggio’s wife

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Hank Greenberg

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“Hammerin’ Hebrew”

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Babe Diedrekson

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Pretty much played every sport, huge icon in female athletics

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Seabiscuit

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Iconic horse that won triple crown in 1937 over Man O’ War

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Tom Yawkey

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Racist Red Sox owner, didn’t want to integrate baseball

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Soap Box Derby

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Sport where people raced in wheeled boxes

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Roller Derby

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People on roller skates attempting to knock each other over

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Babe Ruth

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Home run king, traded to Yankees in 1919, cause of Curse of Bambino in Boston

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Christy Walsh

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Babe Ruth’s agent

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Gertrude Ederle

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Featured in first ticker tape parade, swam English Channel

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Jim Norris

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Owned 3 of the original 6 teams, huge reason for growth NHL

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Speakeasies

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Illegal bars during prohibition

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Black Sox

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MLB team accused for throwing the World Series in 1919

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Federal Baseball Club v National League

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Lawsuit on baseball anti-trust laws

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Judge Landis

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Known for busting trade system, hates Rickey’s farm system

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American System

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Trust built via owner’s risk built into rules

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World War I

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Major period of deglobilization

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Jack Johnson

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Character of globalization, black boxer that everyone hated

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Fight of the Century

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Jack Johnson vs Jim Jeffries rematch, Johnson wins, keeps title

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Etta Dureya

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Jack Johnson’s wife

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W.E.B DuBois

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Leader of NCAAP, huge part of Civil Rights Movement

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Slumming

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Integration of passive and aggressive living

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The Stroll

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Heart of Chicago

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Café De Champion

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Jack Johnson’s club for men

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Frank Lloyd Wright

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“If I am so special, you should not judge me.”

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Bernar MacFadden

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Successful fitness entrepreneur who promoted reproduction

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Napoleon Lajoie

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Came up with reserve clause, 1902

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Plessy v Ferguson

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Separate but equal

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Pierre de Coubertin

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Brings Olympics back in 1896 in 3 month installments

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White Man’s Burden

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Referring to failed 1904 Olympics

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AAU

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Restricts Olympics to amateurs in 1876

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John Taylor

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First black to win Olympic gold

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Matthew Bullock

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First black coach at white college (UMass)

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Forward Pass

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Encouraged to make the game safer (1906)

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Skill, Sponsorship, Structure, Stage of Development

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4s’s of cricket’s failures

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Knickerbockers

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Given credit for first MLB team, turn into leisurely club

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One Bounce Rule

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Push for only catches on the fly to make the game more manly

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James Creighton

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First pro baseball player, pitcher for Elecissor

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Great Split of 1871

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NABBP splits to two groups, became National League and then MLB

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William Hulbert

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Came up with rules on games and teams of National League, considered first commissioner of MLB

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The Rev John Todd

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The only difference between men and women is sperm

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Davy Crocket

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King of the Wild Frontier, animal abuse and racism

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Liminal

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Power of hanging in between (joke)

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Ty Cobb

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Baseball star who befriended the young Tom Yawkey

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Gene Tunney’s nemesis

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Jack Dempsey’s rival

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Leni Riefenstahl

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Created a propaganda sport film for Hitler

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Max Schmeling

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Defeated, then lost to Joe Louis in the first politically charged boxing match

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Great Lake Region

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Region of the country where professional basketball and women’s profession baseball gained a following

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Sonja Henie

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Highest grossing athlete of the 1940s. Parlayed athletic success into a film and enterprise

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Harness Racing

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Most successful sport in New York (1830s-1840s)

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Spermatic Control

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Gender differentiation theory that advocated rugged play for men

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Congruence

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The notion that the game is popular because it is similar to, not because it was different from, day to day life

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Alex Cartwright

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Spearheaded the establishment of the Knickerbockers Club and baseball statistics

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Controlled Vitality

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This ideology masked the structural and political realities of inequality and was used to justify the economic success of some men in the 1800’s and is congruent with the game of baseball

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Hippodroming

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Fixing of games and exhibitions

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Physical Culture

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Bernar MacFadden’s first magazine

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Bernar MacFadden

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Successful fitness entrepreneur, liberated the body

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Amalgamation

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The process of uniting (in terms of race)

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Federal League

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Name of the league whose suit resulted in the anti-trust exemption for baseball

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Mann Act

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Made transporting women across state lines illegal, Jack Johnson convicted of this law

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George Halas

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Father of professional baseball

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Teddy Roosevelt

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Presidential advocate for safe football

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Larry MacPhail

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Came up with the idea for night games in the MLB