What Were the Negro Leagues? Chapter 2 & 3

_____ _. ________ was a headwaiterwho hired other waiters to form the first professional black baseball team.

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The first professional black baseball team was called the _____ ______.

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It is said they called themselves "Cubans" to hide the fact of being black.

• True

• False

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What word began to serve as a code word to let African American baseball fans know that a team was made up of black players?

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CCSS.RL.8.9

____________ is when teams would load up all their players and equipment in buses or cars and travel from town to town lookin for other baseball clubs to play.

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____________ was hardest when black ball teams traveled through the southern United States.

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In 1896, the United States Supreme Court upheld a law that ___________ was legal.

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Even though black players weren't allowed to play on white teams, they did play against white teams sometimes.

• True

• False

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Who may have been a great baseball player, but was not a nice baseball player?

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__ ____ was racist and despised by other baseball players, including his own teammates.

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