To conduct a campaign or speaking tour in rural areas by making brief stops in many small towns.
What is barnstorming?
100
The agreement by Major League ball clubs not to sign any more black players?
What is the black out?
100
Jackie Robinson
who was the first baseball player?
100
In 1885 The first all-black professional team, the Cuban Giants, is founded in Babylon, New York.
who was the first professional team
200
An expression or declaration of objection, disapproval or dissent
What is protest?
200
Where Negro League players played baseball in the offseason.
What is Latin America?
200
Hank Aaron began his professional baseball career as a shortstop with the Indianapolis Clowns in 1952. During his brief stay with the Clowns the young Aaron earned the nickname "Pork Chop" because of his particular liking for that entre.
Did Hank Aaron really play in the Negro Leagues?
200
1945
What is the signing of Jackie Robinson by the Brooklyn Dodgers?
300
Violation of the rights of others; unjust or unfair action or treatment.
What is Injustice
300
Actually, yes. The original Negro National League, founded by Andrew "Rube" Foster in 1920 succumbed to the financial pressures of the Great Depression and folded after the 1931 season
Was there more than one Negro League?
300
To date, 18 players have been inducted into the National Baseball Hall Of Fame principally upon the basis of their outstanding careers in Negro League baseball
How many Negro League players are in the Hall of Fame?
300
1963
What is the folding of the Negro League
400
The act or practice of segregating
What is Segregation?
400
The Atlanta Black Crackers, Birmingham Black Barons, Memphis Red Sox and Nashville Elite Giants were all stalwart franchises in the Negro Leagues from 1920 forward
Were there any successful Negro League teams based in the South?
400
The Negro National League disbanded after the 1949 season. Although the Negro American League continued to operate throughout the 1950s, the quality of play in that league diminished steadily as black baseball's best talent was siphoned off by the major and minor leagues.
When did the Negro Leagues come to an end?
500
A permanent rule established by an organization, corporation, etc.,
What is Statutes
500
From the 1920s through the 1940s exhibition games between Negro League stars and major league stars were both common and very popular with fans
Did Negro League teams ever play against major league teams?
500
He organized negro league teams
who was rube foster?
500
The first successful Negro League was formed in 1920 by Andrew "Rube" Foster, owner of the powerful Chicago American Giants.