The Beginnings of Professional Sports

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Across
  1. 3. The _____ opened it's first season on December 19, 1917
  2. 6. The birthplace of ice hockey
  3. 7. The first "new and improved" baseball game was played in _____, New Jersey
  4. 9. Considered the "Father of Organized Baseball"
  5. 10. Won the first NBA championship in 1950
  6. 11. "The Father of American Football"
  7. 12. Number of teams in the first NFL season
  8. 14. The first professional baseball team
  9. 15. Invented by Dr. James Naismith in December 1891
Down
  1. 1. The _____ and the National Basketball League merged in 1949 to form the NBA
  2. 2. Won the first "World Championship" of the NFL in 1932
  3. 4. This professional sports championship did not exist until 1903
  4. 5. The NAPBP played the first season of _____ in 1871
  5. 8. Highest paid player on the first professional baseball team
  6. 13. By the 1954-55 season the number of NBA teams had been reduced from seventeen teams to _____ teams