Mr. Rickey Part 1
The man who hired the first Black major-league player.
Who is Mr. Rickey?
The system of minor league players that served as feeders for major league teams.
What is the farm system?
This was the first attempt at a professional Negro League in 1887.
What is the National Colored Baseball League?
Negro League teams experimented with innovations such as portable lighting, allowing games to be played at this new time of day.
What are night games?
The man who helped popularize baseball invented the Abner Doubleday Myth and also has a sports goods brand.
Who is Albert Spalding?
Mr. Rickey is best known for recruiting this player, who broke Major League Baseball records for 119 games.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
The famous name of Mr. Rickey’s cigar-fumed office.
What is the “Cave of Winds”?
The man who was a tall pitcher out of Texas formed the Chicago American Giants team and helped organize the Negro National League in 1920.
Who is Andrew (Rube) Foster?
During the Great Depression, the owner of the Pittsburgh Crawfords used lottery winnings to build a stadium and assemble star talent.
Who is Gus Greenlee?
A pitcher earns this when they complete an entire game without allowing the opposing team to score.
What is a shutout?
Known for psychological tactics, Rickey intimidated players by leaving these misleading documents on his desk to suggest lower salaries.
What are fake contracts?
The Supreme Court decision reinforced baseball's exemption from these laws regulating business competition.
What are antitrust laws?
The 1942 Negro League World Series between the Pittsburgh Crawfords and Kansas City Monarchs.
When was the last Negro League World Series?
Said to have hit more home runs than Babe Ruth, this Negro League legend starred for the Crawfords.
Who is Josh Gibson?
The raised dirt mound from which a pitcher throws is exactly this many inches higher than home plate in Major League Baseball.
What is 10 inches?