History of Black Baseball

Who was Satchel Paige?

• the first black baseball player in the Major Leagues

• a pitcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team

• a talented baseball pitcher in the Negro Leagues in California

• a major civil rights activist in the 1940s

What does the author describe throughout most of the text?

• the reasons why Jackie Robinson was signed to the Major Leagues, rather than Satchel Paige

• the way Satchel Paige felt about not being the first black baseball player in the Major Leagues

• the significance of the integration of Major League baseball to the civil rights movement

• the personal relationship between Satchel Paige and Jackie Robinson

What was the title of the passage?

• How Satchel Paige became the first black major league baseball player

• Before Jackie: How Strikeout King Satchel Paige Struck Down Jim Crow

• Satchel Paige Strikeout King: Jim Crow Laws

• The Strikeout King and the Jim Crow Laws

What was a main reason why Satchel Paige felt that he should have been the first black baseball player in the Major League, instead of Jackie Robinson?

• He was older than Jackie Robinson, and therefore could better handle being the first black Major League baseball player.

• He was a better baseball player than Jackie Robinson, and had proven himself against the best white players.

• He cared about civil rights issues and racial tolerance much more than Jackie Robinson did.

• He was already prepared to be the first black Major League player because the Cleveland Indians had tried to sign him.

Jackie Robinson was the first black baseball player signed from the Negro Leagues to the Major Leagues, _____ it was Satchel Paige who brought the spotlight to the Negro Leagues.

• even though

• because

• before

• for instance