How much do you know about major league baseball teams? (3)

QUESTIONS.
1. According to popular legend, who invented baseball in Cooperstown, New York
in 1839?
2. The first organised baseball club was formed in 1842.What was its name?
3. Who was the principal organiser?
4. In which town did all this take place?
5. When did the first official modern baseball game take place?
6. What was the name of the other club, against which the Knickerbockers
played?
7. What was the final score?
8. In 1862 the first fully enclosed baseball park was completed.Where was it?
9. In 1869 the first fully professional baseball team was launched.What it called?
10. In 1876 eight professional clubs formed the National League. In 1901 the
American League was formed.Who was its founder?
11. In what year did teams from each league meet in the first World Series?
12. Which team was involved in a scandal in 1919, after losing the World Series to
the Cincinnati Reds?
13. Who was the federal judge who became baseball’s commissioner, establishing
stricter rules and regulations?
14. What institution was opened in 1939 to display baseball memorabilia and to
honor the game’s greatest players?
15. Who was the major league’s first black player, joining the Brooklyn Dodgers in
1947?

ANSWERS.
1.Abner Doubleday. 2.The ‘Knickerbocker Base Ball Club’. 3.Alexander Cartwright.
4. New York. 5. June 19th, 1846. 6.The ‘New York Club’. 7. NYC 23 – Knickerbockers
1. 8. Union Grounds, Brooklyn. 9. Cincinnati Red Stockings. 10. Ban Johnson. 11.
1903. 12. Chicago White Sox. 13.Kenesaw Mountain Landis. 14. National Baseball
Hall of fame. 15. Jackie Robinson.