Use of name "Yankees"

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Posted By: runscott 

There was some discussion previously about when the name "Yankees" was first used to describe the New York team - earliest references I recall were from the back of a t205 card (1911). In reading through some of my old Sporting Life papers from 1910 I've found references to the "Yankees", e.g: "There is gloom in the camp of the Yankees and their followers..." The article refers to a double-header sweep by the Philadelphia Athletics. Interestingly, the headline reads "The Highlanders Cause Distress by Their Slump in Philadelphia" -(July 9,1910)The article refers to them as the "Yankees" three times, "Highlanders" twice, and "Yanks" once.

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Posted By: Hankron

Does your research show when the phrase "Yankees Suck!" first became popular?

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Posted By: john(z28jd)

In the local papers theres alot of mention of this being the 100th anniv. of the franchise(a year long celebration),which most people here would know is wrong......very rarely do they refer to it correctly as the 100th anniversary of the team being in new york...the first Yankees suck reference was used in late 1921 by a boston newspaper

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Posted By: leon

and the phrase is still commonly used in Texas....or the ole question of "how do you tell a Yankee from a damn Yankee?" .....answer....a damn Yankee is still here (in Texas)....also rings true regards all

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Posted By: Hankron

Ah, Leon, the universal language. Back in Wisconsin we thought the Yankees sucked too (the baseball team that is). Then, we thought the Cowboys sucked too .... I've found that the teams people dislike are the ones that are winners and regularly kick your team's butt. As soon as the opposing team starts loosing, they don't seem to bug you as much.

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Posted By: jay behrens

It's so much that the teams are winners, but it has to do more with the fact that teams like the Yankees, Lakers and Cowboys have some of the most obnoxious fans around. Being a Vikings fan, I didn't like seeing the Packers win, but it was tolerable because Packers fans aren't obnoxious.

Jay

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Posted By: runscott

Packers fans ARE NOT obnoxious !?! When I first became a Cowboys fan in '66 (as an 8-yr old), there was nothing more obnoxious than a Packers fan - they thought they were riding a dream that would never end. Ha Ha! Bart Starr crawled over the goal line and the Pack has been pretty much crawling ever since.

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Posted By: jay behrens

considering that I spent 6 years int eh Navy and had to seal with all sorts of fans and lived in the ehart of 49er country, I can say that without a doubt the most obnoxious fans root for the Cowboys, Lakers and Yankees. Packer fans barely even rate on the obnoxious scale. Hell, Tarheel fans are more obnoxious than Packers fans. I can think of a lot of other fans that are a lot worse than Packer fans. I'd list 49er fans in the group, but they are just a bunch of bandwagon fans with no real sense of lotalty to the team. Every team has its idiot fans, but Packers certainly don't rate in the group of the Cowboys, Lakers, etc.

Jay

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Posted By: runscott

The Pack is still tops with me. College award goes to Tennessee, but I'm sure that depends on what area of the country you live in.

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Posted By: Tom L.

Born in K.C., grew up in Seattle, live in Baltimore.

The Yankees sucked in the midwest, they sucked on the West Coast, and they certainly suck on the East Coast. Anywhere besides the Bronx and parts of Manhattan where they don't suck?

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Posted By: julie

I know there're plenty of Raiders' fans I wouldn't want to be caught on a broad highway with, much less a dark alley. I just like the watch the team play. Oh yeah, not too hot on their owner, either...

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Posted By: TBob

The lovable losers with the quietest fans in the world (excluding the Homer Hankie Series)who emerge from hibernation once every ten years or so to have a pretty good team. No prima donnas, no on-field assaults, no weird player suspensions for deviant behavior, no drug problems (that we know of), just a bunch of overachievers playing baseball and getting along with each other.

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Posted By: Hankron

The only reason I would have for not liking the Twins is that damn dome (baggie on stilts). Before they razed it, I went to a few games in the Kingdome (Seattle), it was like they were playing in someone's basement.

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Posted By: julie

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