History & Origin
Question: This nation is considered the birthplace of modern sport and sport management, where the jockey club concept originated.
What is England?
Question: He founded the National League of Professional Baseball Players in 1876.
Who is William Hulbert?
Question: This university had the first sport management academic program.
What is Ohio University?
Question: This was the first organized group of professional baseball players, formed in 1871.
What was the National Association of Professional Baseball Players?
Question: These are the three primary sport management structures.
What are clubs, leagues, and professional tournaments?
Question: Sport management originated in thoroughbred racing in the form of these groups, the first of which was in Newmarket, Suffolk.
What are Jockey Clubs?
Question: He is recognized as the architect of the professional golf tournament.
Who is Fred Corcoran?
Question: This was the first sport management academic organization.
What was the SMARTS (Sport Management Arts and Science Society)?
Question: This was the first professional baseball team, an openly all-professional team in 1869.
What were the Cincinnati Red Stockings?
Question: These two themes run through the chapter’s examination of sport organizations.
What are honesty and inclusion?
Question: This was the first sport to use sport management principles in the United States.
What is harness racing?
Question: This French physical educator was instrumental in initiating the modern Olympic Games.
Who is Pierre de Coubertin?
Question: These two North American organizations approve sport management academic programs.
What are NASSM and NASPE?
Question: This practice bound a professional baseball player to his ballclub, with owners agreeing to respect one another’s contracts.
What was the reservation system?
Question: Fred Corcoran convinced cities to host golf tournaments by telling them the financial benefits of this for local businesses.
What is professional golfers eating in restaurants and sleeping in hotels?
Question: The modern Olympic Games were held in this city in 1896.
What is Athens, Greece?
Question: He was a baseball industry professional involved with initial discussions of developing sport management as an academic field and worked for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Who is Walter O’Malley?
Question: This is the academic association that oversees sport management academic programs in Europe.
What is EASM?
Question: This team was one of the inaugural members of the National League of Professional Baseball Players.
What were the Boston Red Caps, Chicago White Stockings, Cincinnati Reds, Hartford Dark Blues, Louisville Grays, New York Mutuals, Philadelphia Athletics, or St. Louis Brown Stockings?
Question: During WWII, Fred Corcoran’s tournaments raised money for this organization.
What is the Red Cross?
Question: Sport management structures evolve in response to this type of change.
What is broad social change?
Question: This academic first discussed the concept of offering sport management programs at colleges and universities.
Who is James Mason?
Question: As of 2019, there are this many bachelor's, master's, and PhD programs in the United States.
What are 410 bachelor’s, 235 master’s, and 33 PhD programs?
Question: William Hulbert believed teams should be run this way to ensure their survival.
What is be run like a business?
Question: Loyalty to sport clubs was primarily developed by this factor.
What is membership?