Baseball

Walt Whitman said baseball was ___________

• boring
• a great world game
• America's game
• crazy fun

Which of the following was a characteristic of the Progressive Era

• high immigration
• high wages
• advances in medicine
• world peace

The name of the first organized baseball players group was called_________

• MLB Players Union
• The Brotherhood
• Players Protective Association 
• Baseball Workers Rights Association

Who created the American League?

• Mountain Landis
• Babe Ruth
• Branch Rickey
• Byron Bancroft Johnson

What characteristics were associated with American League play?

• Cracked down on dirty play 
• banned liquor from ballparks
• Baseball was becoming a more acceptable activity
• all of the choices

Baseball was becoming a reflection of the changing ___________ composition of America.

• weather
• ethnic
• education
• none of the choices 

A number of Northern and Eastern European immigrants played on teams as a __________

• means for social mobility.
• way to pass the time
• both choices
• neither choices 

First Woman to Play Professional Baseball

• Claire Underhill
• Alta Weiss
• Barbara Fisk
• Adriana Clayton

Most famous song associated with baseball?

• Bleacher Seats
• Put Me In Coach
• I am the Greatest
• Take Me Out to the Ball Game

_______________ establishes the tradition of throwing out the first pitch on April 14, 1910

• William Howard Taft
• Woodrow Wilson
• Teddy Roosevelt 
• Babe Ruth