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| bank clerk who organized the knickerbockers |
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| "creator" of baseball; 1839 in cooperstown, ny |
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| created first baseball guidebook; invented the box score, batting average, other stats |
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| founder of the union grounds; first to charge admission |
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| president - cincinnati red stockings |
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| player manager - cincinnati red stockings; created players league |
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| founders of the national league |
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| first black man to play professional baseball |
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| greatest player of his century; first to 3000 hits; racist |
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| manager - brooklyn dodgers; brought jackie robinson into the game |
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| led revolt against the reserve clause |
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| father of football; played at yale; developed line of scrimmage, all-american team |
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| member of the first all-american team |
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| nations most celebrated football player; illinois vs michigan |
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| player & head coach of notre dame; founder of the forward pass |
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| dominated horse racing after aurcaro; world's first superstar jockey |
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| trainer of conquistador, caviagt, swail; won the belmont five years in a row |
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| william travers & john hunter |
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| built saratoga race track |
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| chairman of the jockey club |
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| renovated churchill downs; introduced parimutual betting; popularized the kentucky derby |
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| owner & breeder, won the first derby ever with a philly |
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| founder of the belmont stakes |
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| founder of calumet farms; owner of citation; swept the triple crown with eddie aucaro |
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| greatest jockey of all time |
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| formed by cartwright, played at elysian fields |
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| brooklynites, excelsiors, eckford club; played for pleasure, not for profit |
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| notorious for game fixing |
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| first all salaried team; undefeated in 1869 |
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| first team to beat the red stockings |
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| first professional baseball league; founded by harry wright |
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| national leauge of professional baseball clubs |
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| founded by william hubert and albert spalding |
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| american association of baseball clubs |
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| known as the beer ball leagues |
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| led by cap anson; dominated the national league |
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| notorious for throwing games |
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| first thoroughbred horse in america |
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| formation of metropolitan turf alliance; sought to monopolize the bookmaking at ny tracks |
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| designed to stop oral betting; held track owner liable for betting on the premises |
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| 75 stakes winners, 11 champions between 1931 and 1950 |
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