# The Professional Game Grows · Baseball Level 9: Master

Baseball · Level 9: Master · Insporta Book (https://book.insporta.app/baseball/level-9/the-professional-game-grows/)

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.

## Test 1: The American League

- Ban Johnson renamed his league and moved clubs into eastern cities. (Source: General baseball reference)
- The American League has played as a major league since 1901. (Source: General baseball reference)
- Johnson ran the league until 1927. (Source: General baseball reference)
- It ignored the National League's reserve clause and paid better. (Source: General baseball reference)
- He also owned part of the club. (Source: General baseball reference)
- They were first called the Highlanders. (Source: General baseball reference)
- They agreed to respect each other's contracts and set up a ruling commission. (Source: General baseball reference)
- 1900, 1901, January 1903, then October 1903. (Source: General baseball reference)
- Courts rarely stopped the jumps for long. (Source: General baseball reference)
- Lajoie batted .426 in the league's first season. (Source: General baseball reference)

## Test 2: The first World Series

- The American League champion met the National League champion. (Source: General baseball reference)
- Boston's win showed the new league could compete. (Source: General baseball reference)
- It was a best-of-nine series. (Source: General baseball reference)
- Injuries left Pittsburgh short of pitchers. (Source: General baseball reference)
- The Giants' owner and manager would not face the 'minor' American League. (Source: General baseball reference)
- The Royal Rooters changed the words to tease the Pirates. (Source: General baseball reference)
- He allowed no runs in 27 innings of that Series. (Source: General baseball reference)
- 1903, 1904, then 1905. (Source: General baseball reference)
- Boston won four straight games to finish it. (Source: General baseball reference)
- Ground-rule triples came from the overflow crowds. (Source: General baseball reference)

## Test 3: The dead-ball era

- Low scoring and few home runs marked the period. (Source: General baseball reference)
- He managed the Giants for thirty years. (Source: General baseball reference)
- Big homers were rare enough that two in October made his name. (Source: General baseball reference)
- Pitchers then threw many more complete games. (Source: General baseball reference)
- He slapped the ball into gaps rather than over fences. (Source: General baseball reference)
- Teams scratched out runs one base at a time. (Source: General baseball reference)
- The cork-centred ball was livelier than the old rubber one. (Source: General baseball reference)
- A run without a single big hit, typical of the period. (Source: General baseball reference)
- 1904, 1910, then 1911. (Source: General baseball reference)
- Clubs kept a ball in play as long as they could, and it went soft. (Source: General baseball reference)

## Test 4: Classic ballparks

- Fires had destroyed several wooden grandstands. (Source: General baseball reference)
- It started a wave of new parks. (Source: General baseball reference)
- The Phillies moved in much later. (Source: General baseball reference)
- The sinking took over the newspapers that week. (Source: General baseball reference)
- Renamed the Whales in 1915, they gave way to the Cubs in 1916. (Source: General baseball reference)
- The Dodgers played there until they left for Los Angeles. (Source: General baseball reference)
- The Pirates played there until 1970. (Source: General baseball reference)
- 1909, 1912, 1914, then 1923. (Source: General baseball reference)
- Fenway and Wrigley still host games; the old Yankee Stadium closed in 2008, Ebbets in 1957. (Source: General baseball reference)
- It became known as 'the House That Ruth Built'. (Source: General baseball reference)

## Test 5: The Federal League and the reserve clause

- It played in 1914 and 1915. (Source: General baseball reference)
- A club could keep a player year after year. (Source: General baseball reference)
- Its case reached the Supreme Court in 1922. (Source: General baseball reference)
- Some Federal owners were allowed to buy major league clubs. (Source: General baseball reference)
- The Cubs moved into his north-side park in 1916. (Source: General baseball reference)
- The court found that baseball was not interstate commerce. (Source: General baseball reference)
- Players could threaten to leave for the new league. (Source: General baseball reference)
- 1914, 1915, December 1915, then 1922. (Source: General baseball reference)
- Without a rival league he had nowhere else to go. (Source: General baseball reference)
- Stars such as Joe Tinker jumped to it. (Source: General baseball reference)

## Test 6: The Black Sox scandal

- The fixers became known as the 'Black Sox'. (Source: General baseball reference)
- The Reds won five games to three. (Source: General baseball reference)
- His play in the Series is still argued about. (Source: General baseball reference)
- All eight were banned for life in 1921. (Source: General baseball reference)
- They were acquitted, but baseball banned them anyway. (Source: General baseball reference)
- He ruled baseball until his death in 1944. (Source: General baseball reference)
- The commission of the two league presidents and a chairman had lost its grip. (Source: General baseball reference)
- 1919, October 1919, 1920, then 1921. (Source: General baseball reference)
- MLB changed its policy on banned players who had died in 2025. (Source: General baseball reference)
- The words, perhaps invented by a reporter, became the story's symbol. (Source: General baseball reference)

## Test 7: Ruth and the live-ball era

- Boston fans blamed the sale for decades. (Source: General baseball reference)
- Nobody had ever hit more than 29 in a season before. (Source: General baseball reference)
- He out-homered every other club in baseball except one. (Source: General baseball reference)
- The 1927 team won 110 games. (Source: General baseball reference)
- They beat the Giants in their new stadium's first season. (Source: General baseball reference)
- Home runs rose sharply all over the game. (Source: General baseball reference)
- The pair hit back to back in the middle of the order. (Source: General baseball reference)
- 1920, 1921, 1923, then 1927. (Source: General baseball reference)
- 59, 54, then 29. (Source: General baseball reference)
- The Yankees moved to their own stadium in 1923. (Source: General baseball reference)

## Test 8: Radio and the first broadcasts

- The game went out on station KDKA. (Source: General baseball reference)
- They thought free games on air would cut ticket sales. (Source: General baseball reference)
- The Yankees, Giants and Dodgers agreed a radio ban. (Source: General baseball reference)
- He later told of keeping a game going when the wire went dead. (Source: General baseball reference)
- It is named after a former commissioner who began as a writer and broadcaster. (Source: General baseball reference)
- Owner William Wrigley saw radio as advertising. (Source: General baseball reference)
- Only a few hundred sets in New York could pick it up. (Source: General baseball reference)
- August 1921, October 1921, then 1939. (Source: General baseball reference)
- Short coded messages became full play-by-play. (Source: General baseball reference)
- Telegraph reports were turned into a live-sounding broadcast. (Source: General baseball reference)

## Test 9: The All-Star Game

- The Chicago Tribune sports editor proposed it. (Source: General baseball reference)
- The game was planned as part of the Century of Progress fair. (Source: General baseball reference)
- His homer helped the American League win 4-2. (Source: General baseball reference)
- His screwball baffled the American League's best hitters. (Source: General baseball reference)
- Reds fans had voted seven of their players into the starting line-up. (Source: General baseball reference)
- The game's Most Valuable Player receives it. (Source: General baseball reference)
- Travel was restricted in the last year of the war. (Source: General baseball reference)
- 1933, 1958, 1970, then 2003. (Source: General baseball reference)
- Five future Hall of Famers fanned one after another. (Source: General baseball reference)
- From 2003 to 2016 the winning league got home field in the World Series. (Source: General baseball reference)

## Test 10: Depression and war

- He felt the game would help morale at home. (Source: General baseball reference)
- He joined the navy days after the attack. (Source: General baseball reference)
- He missed nearly five seasons to military service. (Source: General baseball reference)
- Wartime shortages opened doors for unusual players. (Source: General baseball reference)
- With so many men at war, the Reds used a schoolboy. (Source: General baseball reference)
- The Yankees, for example, trained in New Jersey. (Source: General baseball reference)
- It was the Browns' only pennant in St. Louis. (Source: General baseball reference)
- December 1941, January 1942, 1945, then 1946. (Source: General baseball reference)
- Dozens of minor leagues closed early in the Depression. (Source: General baseball reference)
- Hundreds of major leaguers served in the forces. (Source: General baseball reference)

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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