Week 1      Which Major League team was the last to integrate, in what year, and who was the player? Boston Red Sox, Elijah “Pumpsie” Green, 1959

 

Week 2      The first radio broadcast of a Major League baseball game occurred in what year, in what city, on what station and who was the broadcaster?

                  KDKA, Pittsburgh, Harold Arlin, 1921 and yes the Yankee broadcast was the World Series first.

 

Week 3      What former NHL player later took up managing in baseball?  Who did he play for in the NHL and what team did he manage in baseball?

                  Johnny Gottselig, Chicago Blackhawks, AAGPBL

 

Week 4      What jockey holds the record for the most winning rides in a single year, how many did he win, and when did he set the record?

                              Kent Desormeaux, 598, 1989

 

Week 5      As an offensive lineman this player got banned from the 1986 Citrus Bowl following his senior year at USC.  He was banned for testing positive for               steroids.  Who was the player and who drafted him in 1987?

                              Jeff Bregel, SF 49ers

 

Week 6      Which player is the only one to hit a homerun in both a Negro League and Major League All Star Game?  Or what two positions on the field have never hit a homerun in Negro League All Star history?

                              Jim Gilliam and ss/3b

 

Week 7      What two Major North American sports teams are the only two to overcome 3-0 deficits in a best of seven series and who did they do it against?

                              In hockey, Toronto versus Detroit in 1942 and NY Islanders versus Pittsburgh in 1975

 

Week 8      What sport was the first to award a national title and it was won by an African American?  Who won it?

                              Cycling, Major Taylor

 

Week 9      In what year did Pigeon Shooting get included as an Olympic competition and what sport made its only Olympic appearance in 1900?

                              1900, as most of you found quite a few including live pigeon shooting

 

Week 10    What was the longest boxing fight ever recorded, when did it happen and who was involved? 

                              By rounds it was in 1856—in Australia, James Kelly and Jack Smith

                              Timed was over 7 hours

 

Week 11    Who won the each of the four Women’s World Series that have been played?

                              USA, Australia and Japan the last two

 

Week 12    Who was the first woman to earn over $100,000 in a single bowling season and when did she do it?

                              1988, Lisa Wagner

 

Week 13    What happened just days before the World Cup in 1966 (related to the World cup) and then who won the Cup and what was the score?

                              Trophy found by a dog after having been lost, England and Germany 4-2

 

Week 14    When did Arthur Ashe win the U. S. Open, who did he beat and where was he from?