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 eye
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrigley...outfield_walls
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.
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.
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
Back at this dynasty thing again: Resurrecting The Rockies: 2001 Onward
Very nice writeups guys.