PED 217 - Social Aspects of Sport

Study Guide for paper on Baseball in the 30’s and 40’s

1. What was shadow ball?
   
   
   
2. What did Babe Ruth say when he was asked how he can make more money than president Herbert Hoover?
   
   
   
3. Who was the teammate of Babe Ruth who played in 2130 straight games?
   
   
   
4. How did black baseball do compared to white baseball during the depression in regards to money and attendance?
   
   
   
5. How did church accommodate black baseball on Sunday?
   
   
   
6. What kind of men were in charge of black baseball?
   
   
   
7. What team were they referring to when they said this team played like we invented the game?
   
   
   
8. Who was Connie Mack?
   
   
   
9. Why did Mack disband the three time champion Philadelphia A’s?
   
   
   
10. Who was the beast?
    
    
    
11. What two important things occurred on June 3, 1932?
    
    
    
12. Who was the most celebrated black baseball player in the 1930’s?
    
    
    
13. What was the Midnight Rider?
    
    
    
14. What was the average black baseball player’s salary?
    
    
    
15. What was the debate over the famous “called shot” by Babe Ruth?
    
    
    
16. Why did Florida attract many potential baseball players from the south?
    
    
    
17. Black baseball’s greatest home run hitter was ________________________.
    
    
    
18. Where did the Dodger team name come from?
    
    
    
19. Compare white and black baseball with the following: injured reserve, relief pitchers, night baseball, travel, lodging.
    
    
    
20. What is the lie of baseball?
    
    
    
21. What happened to baseball when depression hit hard in 1933?
    
    
    
22. What was the biggest event of the Negro League baseball season?
    
    
    
23. Who were the Gashouse Gang? Why were they symbolic of that time in 1934?
    
    
    
24. What major league record set by Hack Wilson still stands today?
    
    
    
25. What pitch was Carl Hubbell known for? What was his claim to fame?
    
    
    
26. What was the “gentleman’s agreement” baseball owners shared?
    
    
    
27. How did the U.S. team do in Japan in 1934?
    
    
    
28. Why did Babe Ruth go to the Boston Braves in 1935?
    
    
    
29. What did he do in his last game?
    
    
    
30. Who were the 2 baseball legends who started their careers in 1936?
    
    
    
31. Who were the New York Yankees of black baseball?
    
    
    
32. How did black baseball players relate to the fans compared to the white players?
    
    
    
33. When was the first night game? Where was it held? What did the other owners feel about it?
    
    
    
34. What impact did radio have on baseball?
    
    
    
35. What did most black players have to do after the season? How were they paid and treated by owners?
    
    
    
36. Describe the 1937 season for the black players who chose to play that season there.
    
    
    
37. The first great Jewish star was:
    
    
    
38. How long was Lou Gehrig’s streak of consecutive games? What was the disease he died from? What do they call it now?
    
    
    
39. How did a majority of the white players feel about playing with black players? Why is baseball not really the national pastime?
    
    
    
40. He said he was the best hitter there ever was:
    
    
    
41. Describe Joe Dimaggio:
    
    
    
42. What was his record that has never been repeated or broken?
    
    
    
43. How would he have made 10,000 dollars from Heinz?
    
    
    
44. What is the joy zone?
    
    
    
45. What did Ted Williams do in 1941 that no other player has done since?
    
    
    
46. The subway series of 1941 was between:
    
    
    
47. What was the name of the Dodger band?
    
    
    
48. What did Japan do to baseball after Pearl Harbor was attacked?
    
    
    
49. Name some of the players who served in World War II:
    
    
    
50. Who was baseball’s miracle man? What was so special about him?
    
    
    
51. Who created women’s baseball? How many teams were created at the inception?
    
    
    
52. Women had to be good enough to play but they also had to be __________________.
    
    
    
53. How were they required to dress?
    
    
    
54. How long did the league last, and what happened to it?
    
    
    
55. What was commissioner Landis’s position on blacks playing baseball?
    
    
    
56. What changed the opinion of most Americans about blacks in baseball?
    
    
    
57. What 2 wars did Jackie Robinson fight?
    
    
    
58. What did General Douglas McArthur find inside the Tokyo baseball stadium when the war was over? What was his direct order to the Japanese?
    
    
    
59. Although 15 of 16 owners voted down blacks in baseball one owner not only voted yes but brought Jackie Robinson to the Dodgers. He was _____________________________.
    
    
    
60. What were some of Jackie Robinson’s college successes in athletics?
    
    
    
61. What team passed up a chance to be the first team to have a black on their roster but actually wound up being the last?
    
    
    
62. How did the owner of the Dodgers prepare Robinson for all of the problems he would have playing with the white baseball players?
    
    
    
63. Other than baseball skills, why was Robinson picked?
    
    
    
64. What was the Williams shift? How did it affect the 1946 World Series?
    
    
    
65. Explain this statement: Baseball is about losing.
    
    
    
66. List many of the examples of racism that Robinson saw in 1947.
    
    
    
67. Explain this statement: Baseball has led America.
    
    
    
68. What is the appeal of baseball?