Founding Fathers
Baseball in the 1800s
National League & American League
Scandals
Modern Era
100

This man created the Box score system

Henry Chadwick

100

One sport that inspired the creation of baseball in the 1840s

Cricket or Rounders

100

In 1901, both Leagues decided to start an end of the season championship game, where both leagues' best team would face off. This was called _______.

The World Series

100

The use of this substance can help raise testosterone, which then can assist an athlete in gaining muscle mass and from there becoming overall stronger.

Anabolic Steroids

100

This organization has the most World Series wins in the MLB

NY Yankees

200

This man is attributed as the original "founder of baseball" and made the first organized baseball team, the New York Knickerbockers.

Alexander Cartwright 

200

This league was made by National League players who were upset with the unfair pay and treatment from the club owners

Players League

200

The player who broke the color barrier in baseball, and the team he played for.

Jackie Robinson, Brooklyn Dodgers

200

An explanation for why MLB executives, owners, and managers turned a blind-eye to steroid use in the late 20th century

The MLB was getting a new influx of fans, arguably entertained by the big hitting, juiced-up, sluggers. 

$$$

200

Oldest ballpark still in use by an MLB organization.

Fenway Park

300

Harry Wright fielded the first professionally paid baseball team with this team

Cincinnati Red Stockings

300

This was the Gentleman's Agreement made by National League owners in the late 1800s

Agreement to not sign any black baseball players

300

The American League's original name before it was changed in 1900

The Western League

300

The name of the company that supplied nutritional supplements to numerous professional athletes including Barry Bonds and Jason Giambi

BALCO

300

This player currently holds the record for most Home Runs in a season and all-time, but its authenticity is sometimes called into question due to his use of performance-enhancing drugs.

Barry Bonds

400

This founding father bought the "Western League" and expanded it in order to compete with the National League

Ban Johnson

400

This was a rule in the National League that allowed organizations to designate 5 players to retain for as long as the owner wished 

Reserve Clause

400

Two reasons in which the Dodgers organization was moved from NY to LA

1. Too much competition with other NY teams

2. Ebbets Field was deteriorating, 

3. Robert Moses wouldn't allow the Dodgers owner to build a stadium where he wanted

400

The 1877 Louisville Grays Scandal was an incident in which members of the Louisville Grays baseball team accepted money to lose games. The four players who were caught got this punishment

Banned from the sport for life

400

The method of using statistics to calculate the most undervalued baseball players, that can be signed for a low price to free cap space

Moneyball/Sabermetrics

500

This founding father of baseball went on a national tour to promote the game of baseball and his equipment company.

Albert Spaulding

500

Name one event or invention that helped spread and popularize the sport of Baseball

The Civil War, the Railroad system, urbanization

500

In the Federal Baseball Club of Baltimore v. National League case, the Supreme Court handed down this ruling

Players are not commerce, can not be inter-state commerce, therefore the National League could not be running a monopoly

500

This 1919 Scandal involved one team fixing the World Series with gamblers, in order to make money from illegal bets

The Black Sox Scandal or Chicago 8

500

One of the original National League teams, the Boston Red Stockings, is this MLB organization today

Atlanta Braves

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