Kin 2501 Final LSU Jacobsen UPDATED ACTUAL Questions And Correct
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Babe Ruth "Media Darling
What about Babe Ruth made fans love him? Strategy, Excitement, Fan base
What team was Babe Ruth on? Red Sox
What team was Babe Ruth traded to? Yankees
How many home runs did Babe Ruth get and in what 60; 1972
year?
How many consecutive games and hits did Joe DiMaggio 56;56
get?
Who was the complete opposite of Babe Ruth, to himself, Joe Dimaggio
not social?
Who was DiMaggio involved with Marilyn Monroe
Who organized the National Association of Colored Andrew "Rube" Foster
Baseball Cubs?
Who was Babe Didrickson? professional female athlete
golf and many other sports
Qualified for the men's PGA
Who was president of the Professional Football League? Jim Thorpe
Who buys the Decator team and where does he move George Halas, Chicago
them?
What was Red Grange's nickname Galloping Ghost
Where was Red Grange a star? Illinois State
Who does Grange sign with? Bears
What did Grange bring to football? stability
Who coaches the first game at Kentucky in 1930? Adolph Rupp
, What was special about Rupp's team? tempo and fast break style
Who formed the Savory Big 5? Abe Saperstein
How did he get games? Renames the team "New York"
What does Abe rename them to and why? Harlem Globe Trotters; To let people know they're a black team (draw a crowd)
T/F They aren't considered the best barnstorming team. False
How many exhibition games did the Globe Trotters play George Mikan's Minneapolis Lakers (NBA Champs); two exhibition games
and who did they play against?
What was Joe Louis' nickname and what was he? The Brown Bomber; Heavy weight champ
Reformers had a three year procedure that blened the 1st step: humanitarian concerns - child labor laws (met with resistance from
working class & sport. What were some concerns? parents)
2nd step: passes mandatory education laws because unemployed children
roamed the streets ( joining gangs, crime)
3rd step: physical education in the schools; supervised games and sport taught
deference to authority.
What was the scandal where 8 White Sox received Black Sox Scandal
money to throw a game?
How did the black sox scandal affect baseball? Baseball was getting tarnished bc of the gambling going on
Baseball needed a commissioner to bring back the good Kennesaw Mountain Landis
name of baseball so who did they hire?
What was wrong with Landis and what did he do? He was racist and banned the 8 White Sox
The commissioner had a lot of power from the beginning
Beginning of the modern Olympics 1896
Where was the first modern Olympics held? Held in Athens, Greece
Who was responsible for getting 1986 games going Pierre duCoubertin
Pierre organized sports festival in ___ and after he was France
successful, he went to American and Europe to get
people interested in games
Were the 1896 games successful? Yes
What was the prize for first place? Silver metal, crown of olives, and diploma
Prize for second place? bronze and diploma
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Terms in this set (156)
Babe Ruth "Media Darling
What about Babe Ruth made fans love him? Strategy, Excitement, Fan base
What team was Babe Ruth on? Red Sox
What team was Babe Ruth traded to? Yankees
How many home runs did Babe Ruth get and in what 60; 1972
year?
How many consecutive games and hits did Joe DiMaggio 56;56
get?
Who was the complete opposite of Babe Ruth, to himself, Joe Dimaggio
not social?
Who was DiMaggio involved with Marilyn Monroe
Who organized the National Association of Colored Andrew "Rube" Foster
Baseball Cubs?
Who was Babe Didrickson? professional female athlete
golf and many other sports
Qualified for the men's PGA
Who was president of the Professional Football League? Jim Thorpe
Who buys the Decator team and where does he move George Halas, Chicago
them?
What was Red Grange's nickname Galloping Ghost
Where was Red Grange a star? Illinois State
Who does Grange sign with? Bears
What did Grange bring to football? stability
Who coaches the first game at Kentucky in 1930? Adolph Rupp
, What was special about Rupp's team? tempo and fast break style
Who formed the Savory Big 5? Abe Saperstein
How did he get games? Renames the team "New York"
What does Abe rename them to and why? Harlem Globe Trotters; To let people know they're a black team (draw a crowd)
T/F They aren't considered the best barnstorming team. False
How many exhibition games did the Globe Trotters play George Mikan's Minneapolis Lakers (NBA Champs); two exhibition games
and who did they play against?
What was Joe Louis' nickname and what was he? The Brown Bomber; Heavy weight champ
Reformers had a three year procedure that blened the 1st step: humanitarian concerns - child labor laws (met with resistance from
working class & sport. What were some concerns? parents)
2nd step: passes mandatory education laws because unemployed children
roamed the streets ( joining gangs, crime)
3rd step: physical education in the schools; supervised games and sport taught
deference to authority.
What was the scandal where 8 White Sox received Black Sox Scandal
money to throw a game?
How did the black sox scandal affect baseball? Baseball was getting tarnished bc of the gambling going on
Baseball needed a commissioner to bring back the good Kennesaw Mountain Landis
name of baseball so who did they hire?
What was wrong with Landis and what did he do? He was racist and banned the 8 White Sox
The commissioner had a lot of power from the beginning
Beginning of the modern Olympics 1896
Where was the first modern Olympics held? Held in Athens, Greece
Who was responsible for getting 1986 games going Pierre duCoubertin
Pierre organized sports festival in ___ and after he was France
successful, he went to American and Europe to get
people interested in games
Were the 1896 games successful? Yes
What was the prize for first place? Silver metal, crown of olives, and diploma
Prize for second place? bronze and diploma
