Robert Irsay - Answers owner of Baltimore Colts; moved team to Indianapolis after Baltimore
wouldn't help pay for new stadium
Baltimore/ Indianapolis Colts - Answers secret deal with Indy mayor
Cleveland - Answers 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 - Answers 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 - Answers 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 - Answers Houston Oilers to Nashville, La Rams to St. Louis, St. Louis
Cardinals to Phoenix
1950 - Answers 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 - Answers 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 - Answers cities attempted to build these for football and baseball but they
caused injuries and threatened the integrity of the game
New facility trend - Answers corporate sponsors financing stadiums
$12,000; $16,000 - Answers Average baseball salary in 1965; new minimum salary in baseball in
1975
Reserve Clause - Answers players owned by team even after the contract ended
Marvin Miller - Answers lawyer for Major League Player' Association; negotiated minimum salary
and found loophole in the reserve clause
reserve clause loophole - Answers players can be renewed for one year without a signature but
nothing about after that year
New guidelines - Answers 4 year contracts and then free agency for baseball players
1994 MLB season - Answers cancelled due to labor disputes
WFL and USFL - Answers attempted to challenge the NFL