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that's beautiful; great find
Beautiful find. This is up there with that map of the continental US by baseball fandom, and the Mets 2009 injury by color chart.
So according to this, 3 teams have never won a pennant or championship.
Rangers
Expos/Nationals
Mariners
Well, the rest is good, for parity. Kinda sad for these three though.
and the Cubs, with the 60 years drought - nothing?? Holy wow.
Coolest thing I've ever seen.
So, is this chart illustrating that Wrigley was ivy-less until about 1936?
Good eyeQuote:
Originally Posted by DiceDig
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrigley...outfield_walls
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The ivy was planted in 1937 by the Cubs General Manager Bill Veeck, to try and add some padding to the then brand new brick outfield wall.
Also note that the Indians split home games between League Park and Cleveland Memorial Stadium for several years (basically night and weekend games in Memorial, weekday daytime games in League Park).Quote:
Originally Posted by DiceDig
I don't recall this. Linky?Quote:
Originally Posted by Alloutwar
ask and you shall receive
http://strangemaps.files.wordpress.c...f_b1.jpg?w=800
Cool. Thanks.
Overall, it looks reasonably accurate, but it shows the area of southern West Virginia where I grew up as Indians territory, and that's just completely wrong. Back before I was in high school, it was basically on the border between the Reds and the Pirates, but later on the Braves gained a lot of fans in the area (mainly because of Braves games on WTBS). At any rate, there were very few Indians fans around.
And there's no way that the Nationals have that much territory. I live in eastern North Carolina now, and I don't think I've seen a single person wearing a Nationals cap. I'd say that most of the coastal Carolina would probably be best shown as unincorporated territory, like wide areas of the west.
Yeah I'd give the Orioles more territory then the Nats.
Where I live, it is a mix of Giants/A's. Though personally, I don't like either team one bit. In fact, baseball is probably the only sport where I'm not a die-hard fan of any one team.
The Rockies are way more into Western Kansas. If you go far enough west you can actually get the Rockies games on the radio while in Kansas
This doesn't count bandwagon fans.
Very nice writeups guys.
Otherwise the Yankee color would be half the damn map.Quote:
Originally Posted by BINGLEBOP
That map is always neat to look at AOW. I agree with OD that there should be a lot more of Orioles territory than Nationals and I think there should be a chunk of Connecticut in Yankee territory. I find it very amusing that Virginia has a big chuck of Pittsburg and Nationals territory when there is hardly a fan for either team around here. If anything there is a lot of Braves, Yankees, Red Sox, and Orioles fans. Of course the map was probably made very subjectively.
I think I am the only one I have seen in NC, now that you mention it. From now on I will take time to notice when/if I see anyone else wearing the DC red.Quote:
Originally Posted by dps