Baseball History
Football History
Baseball or Football
What is it?
Who is it?
100
What makes Baseball players different than athletes in other sports?
They are a better reflection of American body types.
100
What game had unlimited players, and one of its few rules disallowed manslaughter and murder as methods of moving the ball to the goal?
Mob football
100
Started in Sandlots?
Baseball
100
What is Bloody Monday?
A Harvard tradition known as Bloody Monday started in 1827, when the freshman class played the sophomore class.
100
Who is Hank Aaron?
One of the most recognized African American baseball players.
200
What year was the first game between two leagues played?
June 19,1846.
200
Who are the known as the Big 3?
Harvard, Yale, and Princeton
200
Spectator sport
Football
200
What is the significance of Hoboken, New Jersey?
first known competitive game between two clubs under the new rules
200
Who is Mamie Peanut Johnson
Famous female pitcher that played for the clowns.
300
What wealthy man helped to created the sport of Baseball as we know it today?
Wrigley
300
Who is known as the father of American football?
Walter Camp
300
Had a league referred to as the "Beer and Whiskey league"
Baseball the American league in baseball because they were more relaxed.
300
What is the reserve clause?
restricted the free movement of players between clubs.
300
The first team to play baseball under modern rules?
New York Knickerbockers
400
What was the Black Sox scandal?
The Black Sox scandal is the name given to the conspiracy to fix the 1919 World Series played between the Chicago White Sox and the Cincinnati Reds
400
What ended the domination of the Big 3?
Creation of the NCAA
400
This sport greatly increased in popularity in 1950's
Football
400
What were the first football stadiums modelled after?
Greek architecture
400
Who helped to create the All-American Women's softball league?
Phillip Wrigley
500
Who was in charge of the Negro Leagues?
Rube Foster
500
Who is famous for creating the wingback formation?
Pop Warner
500
What sport created a trick play called the hunchback trick?
Football
500
What is the Carlisle School?
It was a school that helped to integrate Native Americans into American culture.
500
Who was a professional baseball and football player and an Olympic gold medalist?
Jim Thorpe
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