The growth of spectator sports Flashcards
When did sport become Big business?
How was sports a barrier to race relations to begin with? (Major leagues?)
What was the most popular sport? What scadnal did it survive?
Following the attraction brought to the sport by Babe Ruth’s ability to hit homeruns what did the league do to make it livelier?
What record breaking attendance was there for basketball in the 1921 world series between NY Giants and NY Yankees?
How many people across the nation gathered to watch local teams?
What did even more people do to keep up with the sport?
Which future president initially made his reputation through commentating for the sport?
-Sport became big business after 1917.
-Most sports were racially segregated. Black sportsmen were banned from playing in the major white leagues, formed their own leagues instead.
-Basketball was the most popular sport.
-It survived the scandal arising from members of the Chicago White Sox revealing that they had accepted bribes to throw the 1919 world series.
-The league redisigned the ball.
-1921 300,000 people attended the six game world series.
-Millions of peole gathered to watch local teams.
-Even more tuned in via radio.
-Ronald Reagan.
When was boxing legalised in NY making it the recognised centre for the sport?
How pricey were the gates attracted by Jack Dempsey(heavyweight champion) between 1919-26?
How many watched his fight against Tunney?
-1920
-Dempsey attracted gates in excess of a million dollars.
-His fight against Tunney attracted a crowd of over 100,000.
What was the size of the football stadium built at University of Michigan in 1928?
What year was the American Professional Association soon renamed NFL organised?
Who did the NFL initially struggle to compete with for fan support?
When did public support grow?
-In 1928, Uni of Michigan built a stadium seating 87,000 people.
-1920 NFL was organised.
-College football.
-Public support grew for the NFL when the most famous college player ‘Red’ Grange signed for the Chicago Bears in 1925.
1945-80 What medium did many people use to keep updated with sports?
What were the most popular sports during this period?
When were sports desegregated?
By the 1970s what race were many of the main stars?
What did sport teams who represented citites symbolise?
-Television.
-American football and basketball remained popular spotrs but basketball and ice hockey attracted large audience as did boxing, tennis, golf and horse racing.
-By the late 1950s sports were no longer desegregated.
-By the 1970s many of the main stars were blacks.
-Sports teams symbolised the urban prestige.
When did American football become more important than baseball? Why?
What league establishment encouraged the NFL to expand?
What led the two leagues to merge?
When did the first superbowl take place?
-1945. Partly because it was more exciting on tv.
-The establishment of the American Football league in 1960 encouraged the NFL to expand.
-A bidding war for players led the two leagues to merge in 1966.
-The first superbowl took place in 1967.
Who signed the first black player to Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team)? What year?
What year did every baseball team contain black players?
What other ethnic gorup was hired by players in the 1970s?
-Branch Rickley in 1947.
-By 1960 every baseball team had black players.
-By the 1970s players were being discovered in the Latin America’s.
