What Were the Negro Leagues? Chapters 4 & 5

Andrew Foster loved the game of baseball so much that he quit school after ______ _____ and ran away from home to try his luck at becoming a professional baseball player.

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How old was Andrew Foster when he began playing semiprofessional baseball?

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________________ ballplayers are part-time players who earn a living through other work.

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Rube invented the ___-___-___ ____.

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When a hitter taps a ball instead of slugging it it is called a ____.

Legend is that Rube was hired by the all-white New York Giants in 1903 to teach his _________ to their pitchers.

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Rube understood that there needed to be an organized league for black teams.

• True

• False

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Rube came up with a plan to get black baseball teams and black businessmen to work together which led to the birth of the _____ ________ ______.

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The Negro National League included _____ black-owned teams and ___ white-owned team.

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What team won the first three Negro National Leagure pennants from 1920 to 1922?

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