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We Are the Ship: 6th and 7th Inning

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Question 1

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Choose THREE ways the black ball players from American were treated better in South America than they were in the United States.

"It was so warm, and they could play baseball all year long."

"Major League owners would take a Cuban before they would a Negro."

"We could stay at any hotel and eat at any restaurant."

"And we traveled to games by train, not on those old, bouncy, rickety buses"

"Those fellows became quite good and had some strong teams."

"Negroes were treated just the same as anyone else, the way we were supposed to be treated."

"The rest of the time we would go fishing."

Question 2

2.

In Latin America, what happened if a baseball player "didn't produce?"

Question 3

3.

Which piece of evidence from the text shows that the Latin Americans were serious about their baseball?

"Go to town after a bad game, and they wouldn't speak to you.  They's just look at you mean."

"You could fill up a whole trunk full of those pesos."

"Satchel Paige almost broke up the whole Negro League when he took a bunch of stars down there to play."

"But it was hard to hit homeruns in some of those parks."

Question 4

4.

What were three problems that the players dealt with in Latin America?

cramped living conditions

homesickness

discrimination

the food/culture from home

low pay

unfriendly players

the heat

Question 5

5.

While they were barnstorming, what were TWO ways the white teams did their best to keep the Negro teams from winning?

"the umpires would call us out when we were safe"

"we wouldn't see a black face for miles"

"dragging the game out until it was too dark to play to force a tie"

"we could have beaten most of those teams with our hands behind our backs"

"the winner would get sixty percent of the gate"

Question 6

6.

Why wouldn't the Negro League players fight back after all the name calling?

Question 7

7.

After barnstorming in California with the major leaguers, what did both the white teams and the Negro teams realize?

Question 8

8.

Reread the paragraph starting with "As far as the competition,..." What were two major differences between the Negro League teams and the majors?

Question 9

9.

Why did Judge Landis. the commissioner of baseball, want to stop the major leaguers from playing the Negro League teams?

the major league was getting a "black eye" when the Negro teams beat them.

the Negro teams were making too much money from barnstorming

Barnstorming took the white players away from their major league games

Landis told them they coouldn't wear their major league team uniforms

Question 10

10.

What did the Major League players and the Negro League players learn from one another?

Question 11

11.

What do you think the narrator meant when he said that the Negro teams may have helped change minds by playing baseball?