KIN 2501 Jacobsen Final Exam 2024/2025
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1. What main 5 things happened during the "Golden Age of Sport?":correct answer: 1. Sport
became an everyday part of American culture.
2. Sports attracted the media and fans.
3. The automobile, radio, and TV brought sport to America.
4. There was increased sport participation.
5. Athletes became American icons.
2. When was the Golden Age of Sports?:correct answer: Early 1900s
3. In the 1820s, America began to shift from a farming nation to an urban industrial
nation. What did this do to the nation?:correct answer: It caused a
technologicalrevolution that radically changed they way people lived.
4. What were sports journalists referred to as?:correct answer: Media Darlings
5. Who is now participating in sports in the Golden Age?:correct answer:
Youth
Interscholastic
College
Adult Rec
6. How did people relate religion and sport?:correct answer: Good Health = A Good Christian
The body is a temple that demands attention and pledge to keep it in shape, strong,and physically
fit.
7. What is a fan?:correct answer: A person who follows sports teams and iconic figures
8. What is an icon?:correct answer: An image, representation, or symbol. A
representation ofsomething sacred or held in high regard.
9. Who is considered among the 3 most important athletes in US history?:correct answer:
- Babe Ruth
10.What sport did Babe Ruth play?:correct answer: Baseball
11.What teams did Ruth play for?:correct answer: He started out at the Baltimore Orioles,
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, but then played for the Boston Red Sox for a good while. However, we was traded theNewYork
Yankees towards the end of his career.
12.What was the Black Sox Scandal?:correct answer: The Chicago White Sox and the
Cincinnati Reds played in the 1919 World Series. It was revealed that the White Sox players
had taken a lot of money to intentionally lose the game. It is said to be the biggest baseball
scandal of all time.
13.What does the Black Sox Scandal have to do with Babe Ruth?:correct answer:
Baseball needed a hero after this scandal because it tarnished the "honesty" of the sport.
14.Who was elected Baseball's First Commissioner and why?:correct answer: Kennesaw
Mountain Landis was elected Baseball's First Commissioner in order to get thingsin line
with the sport of baseball after the Black Sox Scandal.
15.What did he first do as Commissioner?:correct answer: He banned eight White Sox
players involved in the scandal in one of his first acts as Commissioner.
16.What was Landis' other job?:correct answer: He was a judge ($7,500) and the
Commissioner ($50,00), so he had a lot of money, and with money comes power.
17.What was one of Landis' flaws?:correct answer: He was a racist that would
never supportAfrican Americans coming back to play in major league baseball
18.What 3 things did Babe Ruth do to change the game of baseball?:correct answer:
1. Strategy
2. Excitement
3. Fan base
19.What was Babe's strategy?:correct answer: Before Babe came along, baseball was a game
in which players were taught to hit the ball on the ground, and run fast just to get tofirst. Babe
had perfected his swing to hit the ball IN THE AIR, and over the fence sono outfielder could
catch it.There were never really home runs before Babe Ruth.
20.How did he excite everyone?:correct answer: Before Babe, baseball was a low scoring
game. Because of his home runs, we was racking up the score tremendously causing greater
attention to him.
21.Why did Babe Ruth have a large fan base?:correct answer: Not only was he an excellent
baseball player, he was completely charming as well. He revolutionized the game ofbaseball
by changing the style of play.
22.Ruth was America's first and largest what?:correct answer: Media Darling. He became
the face of baseball and a symbol of America.
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, 23.What was the name of another player considered as the greatest baseballplayer of
all time?:correct answer: Joe DiMaggio
24.What team did he play for? (DiMaggio):correct answer: He played for a minor league
team called The Seals, but was soon picked up by the NewYorkYankees where he spenthis
whole career.
25.Around what time did DiMaggio play?:correct answer: The US was entering into WWII.
Players were being drafted, and moral was low in baseball.DiMaggio used the sportof baseball
to bump moral up and keep the public's mind off of the war.
26.What record did DiMaggio set?:correct answer: He set the record for the
most consecutivegames with a hit. (56)
-56 game hitting streak
27.What was one of his nicknames? Who was he marries too? Did he signautographs
and was he the opposite of Babe Ruth?:correct answer: The Yankee Clipper
- married to Marilyn Monroe
-didn't sign autographs
-yes, complete opposite of Babe Ruth. Joe was the 1st humble athlete.
28.Were blacks and whites allowed to play with each other during this time?-
:correct answer: No, African Americans were banned from sports, so they had to form heir own
leagues
29.What was the name of the African American League?:correct answer: Negro League
Base- ball
30. Whohelpedorganizethe National Association of Colored Baseball Clubs?-
:correct answer: Andrew "Rube" Foster in 1920
31.What were Rube's hopes?:correct answer: He built teams and modeled his league
after thewhite major league teams. He hoped that when baseball was integrated, it
wouldmake things easier. He was a visionary, and his games were well-attended and
popular.
32.How did the white major league teams feel about this?:correct answer: They did not
want there to be an integration of baseball because Landis was so racist.
33.After Landis died, what happened?:correct answer: We began to see an integration of base-
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