Overview
The most visible sport industry segment.
What is: Professional sport
The first professional sports club (Hint: baseball).
Cincinnati Red Stockings.
One of the various governance powers of the Commissioner (according to the textbook).
What is (only need to answer one):
Approval of player contracts
Resolution of disputes
Disciplinary matters
Rule-making authority
The big four professional sport leagues
MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL
The name of the NFL before its 1922 name change.
American Professional Football Association.
The level of governance that deals with league-wide operations.
Central Administrative Unit—League Office
The professional sport league that has the longest history in North America.
What is: The MLB
The year the NHL expanded to the USA.
1924
The common goal of players associations.
Protect the rights of members (players).
The number of NBA teams today.
What is: 30 teams in 2 conferences.
The name of the first professional basketball league in USA.
American Basketball League (ABL).
Has the ultimate say in policy development.
Board of Governors or the Owners Committee
The names or locations of the original NHL teams.
Who are:
The Canadiens and the Wanderers (both of Montreal), the Ottawa Senators, the Quebec Bulldogs and the Toronto Arenas.
The year the first professional football league was established in the USA.
what is: 1920
The first commissioner in professional sport.
Who is Kenesaw Mountain Landis, who became the MLB Commissioner in 1921.