SPH-M333 Exam 3 questions and
answers rated A+ passed
Robert Irsay - correct answer ✔✔owner of Baltimore Colts; moved team to
Indianapolis after Baltimore wouldn't help pay for new stadium
Baltimore/ Indianapolis Colts - correct answer ✔✔secret deal with Indy mayor
Cleveland - correct answer ✔✔great city with economy and known as a football
town; 25 million European immigrants, 15 million people from the south; decline
after river caught fire
Cleveland Browns - correct answer ✔✔dominant NFL team from 1946-63; Jim
Brown and last championship; moved to Baltimore in 1995 with new team in city
promised by 1999
Art Modell - correct answer ✔✔new owner of Cleveland Browns who moved the
team to Baltimore after a new stadium was promised; allowed Cleveland to keep
colors, name, and records in Cleveland
Football team relocation - correct answer ✔✔Houston Oilers to Nashville, La
Rams to St. Louis, St. Louis Cardinals to Phoenix
1950 - correct answer ✔✔almost all major league teams east of the Mississippi
River; 44 in American and 2 in Canada; population of US is 150 million
, Baseball team relocation - correct answer ✔✔unable to sustain fans for sufficient
revenue; St. Louis Browns to Baltimore, Boston Braves to Milwaukee, Brooklyn
Dodgers to LA (controversial), NY Giants to San Francisco
Multi-use Stadiums - correct answer ✔✔cities attempted to build these for
football and baseball but they caused injuries and threatened the integrity of the
game
New facility trend - correct answer ✔✔corporate sponsors financing stadiums
$12,000; $16,000 - correct answer ✔✔Average baseball salary in 1965; new
minimum salary in baseball in 1975
Reserve Clause - correct answer ✔✔players owned by team even after the
contract ended
Marvin Miller - correct answer ✔✔lawyer for Major League Player' Association;
negotiated minimum salary and found loophole in the reserve clause
reserve clause loophole - correct answer ✔✔players can be renewed for one year
without a signature but nothing about after that year
New guidelines - correct answer ✔✔4 year contracts and then free agency for
baseball players
answers rated A+ passed
Robert Irsay - correct answer ✔✔owner of Baltimore Colts; moved team to
Indianapolis after Baltimore wouldn't help pay for new stadium
Baltimore/ Indianapolis Colts - correct answer ✔✔secret deal with Indy mayor
Cleveland - correct answer ✔✔great city with economy and known as a football
town; 25 million European immigrants, 15 million people from the south; decline
after river caught fire
Cleveland Browns - correct answer ✔✔dominant NFL team from 1946-63; Jim
Brown and last championship; moved to Baltimore in 1995 with new team in city
promised by 1999
Art Modell - correct answer ✔✔new owner of Cleveland Browns who moved the
team to Baltimore after a new stadium was promised; allowed Cleveland to keep
colors, name, and records in Cleveland
Football team relocation - correct answer ✔✔Houston Oilers to Nashville, La
Rams to St. Louis, St. Louis Cardinals to Phoenix
1950 - correct answer ✔✔almost all major league teams east of the Mississippi
River; 44 in American and 2 in Canada; population of US is 150 million
, Baseball team relocation - correct answer ✔✔unable to sustain fans for sufficient
revenue; St. Louis Browns to Baltimore, Boston Braves to Milwaukee, Brooklyn
Dodgers to LA (controversial), NY Giants to San Francisco
Multi-use Stadiums - correct answer ✔✔cities attempted to build these for
football and baseball but they caused injuries and threatened the integrity of the
game
New facility trend - correct answer ✔✔corporate sponsors financing stadiums
$12,000; $16,000 - correct answer ✔✔Average baseball salary in 1965; new
minimum salary in baseball in 1975
Reserve Clause - correct answer ✔✔players owned by team even after the
contract ended
Marvin Miller - correct answer ✔✔lawyer for Major League Player' Association;
negotiated minimum salary and found loophole in the reserve clause
reserve clause loophole - correct answer ✔✔players can be renewed for one year
without a signature but nothing about after that year
New guidelines - correct answer ✔✔4 year contracts and then free agency for
baseball players
