Question

the following passage describes what life was like in the 1930s for players in the negro league, a professional baseball league made up of mostly african americans. select the best evidence to support the statement that in the 1930s, there were not many professional umpires.

we played more than a hundred games a season, and then played winter ball in cuba or mexico. in between we traveled all over the country playing all kinds of teams—black, white, latin, pro and semipro....in many places, we wouldnt see a black face for miles around. the home team would supply the umpires, usually the town sheriff or somebody like that. the winner would get sixty percent of the gate, and the loser forty. if we tied, wed split it even down the middle. they did their best to keep us from winning, sometimes dragging the game out until it was too dark to play to force a tie.

from kadir nelson, we are the ship: the story of negro league baseball. copyright 2008 by kadir nelson

Explanation:

The passage states that home teams provided umpires, who were often non-professionals like the town sheriff. This directly shows there were not enough professional umpires, so non-professionals were used instead.

Answer:

"The home team would supply the umpires, usually the town sheriff or somebody like that."