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- 4. How much money do they make a week by playing baseball?
- 5. Instead of playing in pants, the women’s uniform had a s___.
- 9. Which war was happening to cause women to get their own major league baseball team?
- 10. Who does Jackie Robinson give a signed baseball to? (Hint: He will become a major league baseball player.)
- 12. Before they could play baseball in the league, they had to go to ___ school.
- 14. ____ 15th is Jackie Robinson day, where everyone wears the number 42.
- 16. The female baseball team the movie follows is The Rockford ____.
- 17. What type of pitch can Kit not resist? ___ ___ ball (Hint: Dottie tells the pitcher to throw this type of pitch because she can’t hit them.)
- 19. Dixie Walker started a ____ ,so he wouldn’t have to play with Jackie Robinson on his team. Some, but not all, players on the team also signed this.
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- 1. Who is Jackie Robinson’s wife?
- 2. There is no ______ in baseball.
- 3. Enos Slaughter ___ Jackie Robinson during the game, causing him to bleed and collapse to the ground. However, he finished the game to show his strength and willpower.
- 4. How many total women will make it onto the teams?
- 6. What is the name of the player that wraps his arm around Jackie Robinson to show his support: Pee Wee ___?
- 7. The team that Kit got traded to is the Racine ____.
- 8. The name of the Phillies manager who took a picture with Robinson by holding a bat, instead of shaking hands is Ben ______.
- 11. Who is Kit’s sister?
- 13. First African-American to play in a Major Baseball League?
- 15. What newspaper did Wendell Smith write for?
- 18. On opening day in 1946, how many of the 400 players in the major leagues were not white?
