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Baseball · Level 9: Master · Sub-level 9.2

The Professional Game Grows

10 tests · 100 facts · updated 28 October 2026 · markdown

The American League, the first World Series, the dead-ball era, classic ballparks, the Federal League and the reserve clause, the Black Sox scandal, Ruth and the live-ball era, radio and the first broadcasts, the All-Star Game, and baseball through the Depression and the war.

Each test below is ten questions on Insporta. The list under a test is what the questions check: one fact per question, with the source it was written from. Read it before the test, or come back from a wrong answer.

Test 1The American LeagueTake a test

  1. Ban Johnson renamed his league and moved clubs into eastern cities.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  2. The American League has played as a major league since 1901.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  3. Johnson ran the league until 1927.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  4. It ignored the National League's reserve clause and paid better.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  5. He also owned part of the club.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  6. They were first called the Highlanders.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  7. They agreed to respect each other's contracts and set up a ruling commission.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  8. 1900, 1901, January 1903, then October 1903.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

  9. Courts rarely stopped the jumps for long.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

  10. Lajoie batted .426 in the league's first season.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

Test 2The first World SeriesTake a test

  1. The American League champion met the National League champion.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  2. Boston's win showed the new league could compete.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  3. It was a best-of-nine series.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  4. Injuries left Pittsburgh short of pitchers.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  5. The Giants' owner and manager would not face the 'minor' American League.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  6. The Royal Rooters changed the words to tease the Pirates.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  7. He allowed no runs in 27 innings of that Series.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  8. 1903, 1904, then 1905.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

  9. Boston won four straight games to finish it.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

  10. Ground-rule triples came from the overflow crowds.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

Test 3The dead-ball eraTake a test

  1. Low scoring and few home runs marked the period.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  2. He managed the Giants for thirty years.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  3. Big homers were rare enough that two in October made his name.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  4. Pitchers then threw many more complete games.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  5. He slapped the ball into gaps rather than over fences.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  6. Teams scratched out runs one base at a time.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  7. The cork-centred ball was livelier than the old rubber one.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  8. A run without a single big hit, typical of the period.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

  9. 1904, 1910, then 1911.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

  10. Clubs kept a ball in play as long as they could, and it went soft.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

Test 4Classic ballparksTake a test

  1. Fires had destroyed several wooden grandstands.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  2. It started a wave of new parks.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  3. The Phillies moved in much later.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  4. The sinking took over the newspapers that week.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  5. Renamed the Whales in 1915, they gave way to the Cubs in 1916.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  6. The Dodgers played there until they left for Los Angeles.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  7. The Pirates played there until 1970.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  8. 1909, 1912, 1914, then 1923.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

  9. Fenway and Wrigley still host games; the old Yankee Stadium closed in 2008, Ebbets in 1957.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

  10. It became known as 'the House That Ruth Built'.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

Test 5The Federal League and the reserve clauseTake a test

  1. It played in 1914 and 1915.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  2. A club could keep a player year after year.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  3. Its case reached the Supreme Court in 1922.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  4. Some Federal owners were allowed to buy major league clubs.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  5. The Cubs moved into his north-side park in 1916.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  6. The court found that baseball was not interstate commerce.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  7. Players could threaten to leave for the new league.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  8. 1914, 1915, December 1915, then 1922.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

  9. Without a rival league he had nowhere else to go.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

  10. Stars such as Joe Tinker jumped to it.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

Test 6The Black Sox scandalTake a test

  1. The fixers became known as the 'Black Sox'.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  2. The Reds won five games to three.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  3. His play in the Series is still argued about.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  4. All eight were banned for life in 1921.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  5. They were acquitted, but baseball banned them anyway.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  6. He ruled baseball until his death in 1944.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  7. The commission of the two league presidents and a chairman had lost its grip.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  8. 1919, October 1919, 1920, then 1921.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

  9. MLB changed its policy on banned players who had died in 2025.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

  10. The words, perhaps invented by a reporter, became the story's symbol.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

Test 7Ruth and the live-ball eraTake a test

  1. Boston fans blamed the sale for decades.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  2. Nobody had ever hit more than 29 in a season before.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  3. He out-homered every other club in baseball except one.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  4. The 1927 team won 110 games.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  5. They beat the Giants in their new stadium's first season.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  6. Home runs rose sharply all over the game.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  7. The pair hit back to back in the middle of the order.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  8. 1920, 1921, 1923, then 1927.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

  9. 59, 54, then 29.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

  10. The Yankees moved to their own stadium in 1923.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

Test 8Radio and the first broadcastsTake a test

  1. The game went out on station KDKA.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  2. They thought free games on air would cut ticket sales.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  3. The Yankees, Giants and Dodgers agreed a radio ban.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  4. He later told of keeping a game going when the wire went dead.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  5. It is named after a former commissioner who began as a writer and broadcaster.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  6. Owner William Wrigley saw radio as advertising.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  7. Only a few hundred sets in New York could pick it up.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  8. August 1921, October 1921, then 1939.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

  9. Short coded messages became full play-by-play.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

  10. Telegraph reports were turned into a live-sounding broadcast.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

Test 9The All-Star GameTake a test

  1. The Chicago Tribune sports editor proposed it.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  2. The game was planned as part of the Century of Progress fair.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  3. His homer helped the American League win 4-2.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  4. His screwball baffled the American League's best hitters.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  5. Reds fans had voted seven of their players into the starting line-up.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  6. The game's Most Valuable Player receives it.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  7. Travel was restricted in the last year of the war.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  8. 1933, 1958, 1970, then 2003.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

  9. Five future Hall of Famers fanned one after another.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

  10. From 2003 to 2016 the winning league got home field in the World Series.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

Test 10Depression and warTake a test

  1. He felt the game would help morale at home.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  2. He joined the navy days after the attack.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  3. He missed nearly five seasons to military service.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  4. Wartime shortages opened doors for unusual players.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  5. With so many men at war, the Reds used a schoolboy.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  6. The Yankees, for example, trained in New Jersey.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  7. It was the Browns' only pennant in St. Louis.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  8. December 1941, January 1942, 1945, then 1946.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

  9. Dozens of minor leagues closed early in the Depression.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

  10. Hundreds of major leaguers served in the forces.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

Sources

General baseball references, WBSC and league material, coaching manuals; original questions authored, nothing reproduced. Numbered rules belong to the Rules category.

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