AND SOLUTIONS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Social center of town
Animal baiting, cockfighting, billiards, darts, dice
Betting - ✔✔Taverns
✔✔Early education - ✔✔Elementary
✔✔Secondary school - ✔✔Latin grammar school
✔✔Harvard college - ✔✔higher education
✔✔1st academy founded by - ✔✔Franklin (1749)
✔✔Academy included - ✔✔running, leaping, wrestling
✔✔Towns - ✔✔133
✔✔People in towns - ✔✔more than 2500
✔✔States - ✔✔26
✔✔5 commercial cities - ✔✔Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Charleston
✔✔Immigrants - ✔✔12 million
✔✔Invention of basketball (1891) - ✔✔James Naismith
✔✔Volleyball (1895) - ✔✔William Morgan
✔✔Serious sport - ✔✔Horse racing, boxing, rowing, yacht racing, baseball, track and
field athletics, and football
✔✔Famous horse winning William Byrds gamble - ✔✔Selima
✔✔Popular in established cities, gambling made it controversial, banned in northern
cities - ✔✔horse racing
✔✔Became more popular in the south
Rich horse owner
Importing/breeding/training of horses for racing
Slave jockeys and trainers - ✔✔horse racing
, ✔✔Perceived as brutal by upperclass
bare knuckle, few rules
Traveling 'professionals'
Slave matches matched by owners - ✔✔Boxing
✔✔Base or goal ball, rounders, downhill - ✔✔Baseball
✔✔Couldn't play within 80 yards of town hall - ✔✔Baseball
✔✔The Knickerbockers - ✔✔Alexander Cartwright
✔✔Rules of baseball (1842) - ✔✔9 players on field, bases 90 feet apart, 21 counts,
change after 3
✔✔Recognized as the national pastime - ✔✔Baseball
✔✔first place recognized basketball - ✔✔YMCA training school, springfield MA
✔✔How was the game of basketball spread - ✔✔Vistors to training school, YMCA
Newsletter, YMCA graduates
✔✔lunch time rec sport
Minonette - ✔✔Volleyball
✔✔How would free African Americans now fit into US society? - ✔✔Educational
systems, Jim Crow laws, Plessy vs. ferguson
✔✔YMCA Training School - ✔✔Springfield, MA
✔✔Newcomb College - ✔✔Tulane University
✔✔Organizes and hosts "Boston Conference on Physical Training" - ✔✔Amy Morris
Homans
✔✔tried to clean up professional baseball - ✔✔W.A. Hulbert & A.G. Spalding
✔✔Dead ball era - ✔✔speed, base stealing, single hitting, soft-dark colored ball,
arguments, brawls, gambling
✔✔"Georgia Peach"
Rough style of play
Baseballs meanest player