The Club System
Where the first modern Olympic Games were held in 1896.
What is Athens, Greece
Formed in 1869, this was the first openly all-professional team.
Who are the Cincinnati Red Stockings
This sport is what prompted the professional tournament structure in the U.S.
What is golf
Known for her victory over Bobby Riggs "Battle of the Sexes" in 1973, she established the Women's Tennis Association and was a founder of "WomenSports" magazine.
Who is Billie Jean King
This university had the first sport management academic program.
What is Ohio University
This country is the birthplace of modern sport and sport management.
What is England
Four of the eight original member cities of this league were Boston, Chicago, New York, and St. Louis.
What is the National League of Professional Baseball Players.
He was hired as PGA tour director in 1937 and is recognized as the architect of the professional golf tournament.
Who is Fred Corcoran
This man formed the first African American athletic conference that set up a structure for league and tournament play for historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs).
Who is E.B. Henderson
The value of this kind of education in the sport industry should be embraced by future sport managers so they do not fall behind or fail.
What is an international education?
This was the first professional sport in the United States.
What is harness racing
Founded the National League of Professional Baseball Players in 1876 and was known as the "Czar of Baseball".
Who is William Hulbert
This organization was supported by charity golf tournaments during World War II.
What is the Red Cross
This man was called "the man who invented sports" by the Wall Street Journal, was the first agent to represent a professional athlete, and is the founder of IMG.
Who is Mark McCormack
Called NASSM for short, this organization's purpose is to promote, stimulate, and encourage study, research, scholarly writing, and professional development in the area of sport management, both in the theoretical and applied aspects.
What is the North American Society for Sport Management.
Sport management originated in thoroughbred racing in the form of this organization.
What is the Jockey Club
One of the two National League teams that were banned from the league after the first year because they did not play all of their games, which was required by league rules, regardless of profit or loss.
Who are New York and/or Philadelphia.
The X-Games is a "made-for-TV" tournament owned by ESPN, which is a subsidiary of this corporation.
What is the Disney Corporation.
In 2006, she was the first woman elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.
Who is Effa Manley
One of the two people credited with the concept of sport management as an academic field.
Who is James Mason and/or Walter O'Malley
This young French physical educator was instrumental in initiating the modern Olympic Games.
Who is Pierre de Coubertin
This was the year the pennant race was created in professional baseball.
What is 1876
In 1934, he orchestrated the first celebrity professional and amateur (pro-am) tournament preceeding a men's golf tournament to raise money for charity.
Who is Bing Crosby
This African American man was considered the "father of Black baseball" and was a principal organizer of the National Negro League.
Who was Andrew "Rube" Foster?
At the time the textbook was written, this was the number of undergraduate sport management programs accredited by COSMA.
What is 33.