Founding Fathers
This man created the Box score system
Henry Chadwick
One sport that inspired the creation of baseball in the 1840s
Cricket or Rounders
In 1901, both Leagues decided to start an end of the season championship game, where both leagues' best team would face off. This was called _______.
The World Series
The use of this substance can help raise testosterone, which then can assist an athlete in gaining muscle mass and from there becoming overall stronger.
Anabolic Steroids
This organization has the most World Series wins in the MLB
NY Yankees
This man is attributed as the original "founder of baseball" and made the first organized baseball team, the New York Knickerbockers.
Alexander Cartwright
This league was made by National League players who were upset with the unfair pay and treatment from the club owners
Players League
The player who broke the color barrier in baseball, and the team he played for.
Jackie Robinson, Brooklyn Dodgers
An explanation for why MLB executives, owners, and managers turned a blind-eye to steroid use in the late 20th century
The MLB was getting a new influx of fans, arguably entertained by the big hitting, juiced-up, sluggers.
$$$
Oldest ballpark still in use by an MLB organization.
Fenway Park
Harry Wright fielded the first professionally paid baseball team with this team
Cincinnati Red Stockings
This was the Gentleman's Agreement made by National League owners in the late 1800s
Agreement to not sign any black baseball players
The American League's original name before it was changed in 1900
The Western League
The name of the company that supplied nutritional supplements to numerous professional athletes including Barry Bonds and Jason Giambi
BALCO
This player currently holds the record for most Home Runs in a season and all-time, but its authenticity is sometimes called into question due to his use of performance-enhancing drugs.
Barry Bonds
This founding father bought the "Western League" and expanded it in order to compete with the National League
Ban Johnson
This was a rule in the National League that allowed organizations to designate 5 players to retain for as long as the owner wished
Reserve Clause
Two reasons in which the Dodgers organization was moved from NY to LA
1. Too much competition with other NY teams
2. Ebbets Field was deteriorating,
3. Robert Moses wouldn't allow the Dodgers owner to build a stadium where he wanted
The 1877 Louisville Grays Scandal was an incident in which members of the Louisville Grays baseball team accepted money to lose games. The four players who were caught got this punishment
Banned from the sport for life
The method of using statistics to calculate the most undervalued baseball players, that can be signed for a low price to free cap space
Moneyball/Sabermetrics
This founding father of baseball went on a national tour to promote the game of baseball and his equipment company.
Albert Spaulding
Name one event or invention that helped spread and popularize the sport of Baseball
The Civil War, the Railroad system, urbanization
In the Federal Baseball Club of Baltimore v. National League case, the Supreme Court handed down this ruling
Players are not commerce, can not be inter-state commerce, therefore the National League could not be running a monopoly
This 1919 Scandal involved one team fixing the World Series with gamblers, in order to make money from illegal bets
The Black Sox Scandal or Chicago 8
One of the original National League teams, the Boston Red Stockings, is this MLB organization today
Atlanta Braves