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Austin Baseball History Web Challenge

Austin Senators Program
  1. What was the name of Austin's first professional baseball team?
    HINT: Look at the photo.
  2. Professional baseball was once segregated. Some of the best players ever to play baseball came from the famous Negro League. What was the name of Austin's Negro League team?
    HINT: They joined the Negro League in the 1920s.
  3. Nolan Ryan was a pitcher for the Texas Rangers and the Houston Astros. He threw more strikeouts in his career than any other pitcher in the history of baseball. How many strikeouts did he throw?
  4. Nolan Ryan owns a minor league baseball team in Round Rock called the Round Rock Express. When was their first home game?
  5. Willie Wells is often considered the greatest Negro League player from Texas. What was his nickname?
  6. What famous major league pitcher led the University of Texas baseball team to the College World Series in 1983? HINT: Scroll down to the "Fast Facts" section.
  7. What University of Texas softball pitcher won a gold medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics? What are her two favorite sports?
  8. How many national titles has the University of Texas baseball team won?
  9. The Kansas City Monarchs were the most famous team in the Negro League. What famous Monarchs pitcher was born in Texas? What town was he born in?
  10. The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League was a professional baseball league for women during the 1940s and 1950s. Ysora "Chico" del Castillo was a famous player for the Chicago Colleens. During a tour of Austin in 1949, she was thrown out of a game. Why was she thrown out?
    HINT: Read the fifth paragraph closely.

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