Baseball exam 1 with verified solutions
Gentlemans clubs - correct answer ✔Led by alexander Cartwright |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
new york knickerbockers
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1845- one of the first teams
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Ag Spalding - correct answer ✔.Albert Goodwill Spalding was an American
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pitcher, manager and executive in the early years of professional baseball,
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and the co-founder of A.G. Spalding sporting goods company. He was born
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and raised in Byron, Illinois. He played major league baseball between 1871
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and 1878. |!| |!|
world tour |!|
La Soule - correct answer ✔Baseballs dopelganger founded in norway
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Alexander Cartwright - correct answer ✔Inventor of baseball; organized the
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Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York in 1845. |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
Jim Creighton - correct answer ✔James Creighton, Jr. was an American
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baseball player during the game's amateur era, and is considered by
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historians to be its first superstar. In 1860 and 1862 he played for one of the
|!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
most dominant teams of the era, the Excelsior of Brooklyn.
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Alexis de Tocqueville: - correct answer ✔A French political thinker and
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historian who wrote Democracy in America after his travels to America.
|!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
wrote on equality and individualism
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,Abner Doubleday - correct answer ✔career United States Army officer and
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Union 2-star general in the American Civil War.
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what - later turned out to be demented and died in an asylum
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cooperstown, NY is where the myth is said to have been started |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
He fired the first shot in defense of Fort Sumter, the opening battle of the
|!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
war, and had a pivotal role in the early fighting at the Battle of Gettysburg.
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Elysian Fields - correct answer ✔Elysian Fields in Hoboken, New Jersey is
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believed to be the site of the first organized baseball game, giving Hoboken a
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strong claim to be the birthplace of baseball. Opened in 1845
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Laissez-faire - correct answer ✔Idea that government should play as small a
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role as possible in economic affairs. 1861
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Reserve clause - correct answer ✔Committed players to teams and reserved
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the rights for them to stay with the team until their contract was over. 1879-
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1875 blackballed them
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Cornelius Vanderbilt - correct answer ✔an American business magnate and
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philanthropist who built his wealth in railroads and shipping. |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
monopolized new york harbor 1860s |!| |!| |!| |!|
Rockefeller - correct answer ✔American oil industry business magnate,
|!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
industrialist, and philanthropist. |!| |!| |!|
He is widely considered the wealthiest American of all time, and the richest
|!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
person in modern history |!| |!| |!|
, owned all oil |!| |!|
Brotherhood war - correct answer ✔The Brotherhood began in 1885 as a |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
benevolent association concerned with helping players in trouble and
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improving relations between management and players. When club owners
|!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
tried, in 1888, to impose a stiff set of salary limits upon the players, the
|!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
Brotherhood provided a base for player resistance. |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
National association of baseball players - correct answer ✔The National
|!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
Association of Base Ball Players(NABBP) was the first organization governing
|!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
American baseball. The first convention of sixteen New York City area clubs in
|!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
1857 practically terminated the Knickerbocker era, when that club privately
|!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
deliberated on the rules of the game. spectators began paying |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
National Association of Pro Baseball Players - correct answer ✔1871- Led by
|!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
harry wright |!|
10 teams with a 10 dollar entry fees organization schedules organization,
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ownership?
Brotherhood of Professional BaseBall Players - correct answer ✔the |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
Brotherhood of Professional Baseball Players represented the first serious
|!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
effort to organize a labor union consisting of baseball players. It was
|!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
launched in 1885 through the efforts of star player John Montgomery Ward,
|!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
who was also a lawyer, with the aim of raising player salaries in recognition
|!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
of the growing popularity of professional baseball and the growth in revenues
|!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
generated by the game. It also aimed to combat the reserve clause which
|!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
restricted player movement and helped to keep salaries down. The
|!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
organization gained official recognition when National League owners first
|!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
met with the Brotherhood's representatives on November 17, 1887. However,
|!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
relations between the two soon became difficult as owners were unwilling to
|!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
make significant concessions.
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Gentlemans clubs - correct answer ✔Led by alexander Cartwright |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
new york knickerbockers
|!| |!|
1845- one of the first teams
|!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
Ag Spalding - correct answer ✔.Albert Goodwill Spalding was an American
|!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
pitcher, manager and executive in the early years of professional baseball,
|!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
and the co-founder of A.G. Spalding sporting goods company. He was born
|!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
and raised in Byron, Illinois. He played major league baseball between 1871
|!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
and 1878. |!| |!|
world tour |!|
La Soule - correct answer ✔Baseballs dopelganger founded in norway
|!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
Alexander Cartwright - correct answer ✔Inventor of baseball; organized the
|!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York in 1845. |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
Jim Creighton - correct answer ✔James Creighton, Jr. was an American
|!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
baseball player during the game's amateur era, and is considered by
|!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
historians to be its first superstar. In 1860 and 1862 he played for one of the
|!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
most dominant teams of the era, the Excelsior of Brooklyn.
|!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
Alexis de Tocqueville: - correct answer ✔A French political thinker and
|!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
historian who wrote Democracy in America after his travels to America.
|!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
wrote on equality and individualism
|!| |!| |!| |!|
,Abner Doubleday - correct answer ✔career United States Army officer and
|!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
Union 2-star general in the American Civil War.
|!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
what - later turned out to be demented and died in an asylum
|!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
cooperstown, NY is where the myth is said to have been started |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
He fired the first shot in defense of Fort Sumter, the opening battle of the
|!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
war, and had a pivotal role in the early fighting at the Battle of Gettysburg.
|!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
Elysian Fields - correct answer ✔Elysian Fields in Hoboken, New Jersey is
|!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
believed to be the site of the first organized baseball game, giving Hoboken a
|!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
strong claim to be the birthplace of baseball. Opened in 1845
|!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
Laissez-faire - correct answer ✔Idea that government should play as small a
|!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
role as possible in economic affairs. 1861
|!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
Reserve clause - correct answer ✔Committed players to teams and reserved
|!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
the rights for them to stay with the team until their contract was over. 1879-
|!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
1875 blackballed them
|!| |!|
Cornelius Vanderbilt - correct answer ✔an American business magnate and
|!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
philanthropist who built his wealth in railroads and shipping. |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
monopolized new york harbor 1860s |!| |!| |!| |!|
Rockefeller - correct answer ✔American oil industry business magnate,
|!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
industrialist, and philanthropist. |!| |!| |!|
He is widely considered the wealthiest American of all time, and the richest
|!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
person in modern history |!| |!| |!|
, owned all oil |!| |!|
Brotherhood war - correct answer ✔The Brotherhood began in 1885 as a |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
benevolent association concerned with helping players in trouble and
|!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
improving relations between management and players. When club owners
|!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
tried, in 1888, to impose a stiff set of salary limits upon the players, the
|!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
Brotherhood provided a base for player resistance. |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
National association of baseball players - correct answer ✔The National
|!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
Association of Base Ball Players(NABBP) was the first organization governing
|!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
American baseball. The first convention of sixteen New York City area clubs in
|!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
1857 practically terminated the Knickerbocker era, when that club privately
|!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
deliberated on the rules of the game. spectators began paying |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
National Association of Pro Baseball Players - correct answer ✔1871- Led by
|!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
harry wright |!|
10 teams with a 10 dollar entry fees organization schedules organization,
|!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
ownership?
Brotherhood of Professional BaseBall Players - correct answer ✔the |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
Brotherhood of Professional Baseball Players represented the first serious
|!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
effort to organize a labor union consisting of baseball players. It was
|!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
launched in 1885 through the efforts of star player John Montgomery Ward,
|!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
who was also a lawyer, with the aim of raising player salaries in recognition
|!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
of the growing popularity of professional baseball and the growth in revenues
|!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
generated by the game. It also aimed to combat the reserve clause which
|!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
restricted player movement and helped to keep salaries down. The
|!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
organization gained official recognition when National League owners first
|!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
met with the Brotherhood's representatives on November 17, 1887. However,
|!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
relations between the two soon became difficult as owners were unwilling to
|!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!| |!|
make significant concessions.
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