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[deziloooooo]

latest Quinnipiac Pole..Yankees vs Red Sox, popularity of which in Connecticut...yep, "Damn Yankees" won again..

www.courant.com/sports/baseball/hc-red-sox-yankees-q-poll-0428-20120427,0,2339549.story

I grew up outside of New Haven, [Hamden] and as kids pick up things from neighbors and friends sometimes, I got seriously involved in Brooklyn Dodgers at about age seven or so , or when ever kids start seriously start thinkin about those things..so I was a loner basically when all my friends were Yankee fans like 100 %..

Baseball a big deal back then, think less so today....in comparison..
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Connecticut Baseball Fans Back Yankees Over Red Sox, Q Poll Shows
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By PAUL DOYLE, [e-mail]

The Hartford Courant

6:24 a.m. EDT, April 27, 2012

"The Red Sox put a Connecticut native in their dugout this season, but Bobby Valentine hasn't changed the hearts of fans in his home state.

Results from the annual Quinnipiac Connecticut Baseball Poll were announced Friday morning and the Yankees remain the favorite among state fans for the fourth year in a row. Fans in baseball’s ultimate battleground state prefer the Yankees to the Red Sox, 43 percent to 38 percent.

That's the same spread as last year and it’s the ninth time in 10 years that the Yankees have finished ahead of the Red Sox in the poll. The poll was conducted April 18-23, as Quinnipiac surveyed 1,933 Connecticut adults. The margin of error is +/- 2.2 percentage points"

[Savoir Faire-Demogague in NJ]

How many times did the Yankees beat the Brooklyn Dodgers in the World Series?? Has to be what, at least 10 times?

Anyone know how the Brooklyn Dodgers name came about, the "Dodger" part?

[deziloooooo]

Apr 27, 2012 9:54:49 GMT -5 Savoir Faire-Demogague in NJ said:

How many times did the Yankees beat the Brooklyn Dodgers in the World Series?? Has to be what, at least 10 times?

Anyone know how the Brooklyn Dodgers name came about, the "Dodger" part?

I think it had to do with people dodging around street cars at a Brooklyn intersection of heavy concentration to cross streets..

Didn't think it was 10 but enough...we finally got one back then moved to LA..oh woe is O'malley...Actually I believe the real culprit was Robert moses in that move, head of highways, bridges and stuff, very powerful guy..wouldn't give financial support to a new stadium or if so wanted it where O'Malley did not want...think where Mets finally built on...thus the move which took the giants too..

[Savoir Faire-Demogague in NJ]

Yeah, the Dodgers name, from what I heard, had to do with the street cars that ran on the street surfaces. I even recall New Utretch Ave still had rails in the street until perhaps 10-15 years ago.

My high school in Park Slope, at the end of MacDonald Avenue, was the old Brooklyn Trolley Barn.

I also heard that it was Robert Moses who caused the team to move. He wanted to build a stadium in Queens for the team.

[floridayankee]

Apr 27, 2012 9:52:38 GMT -5 deziloooooo said:

Connecticut Baseball Fans Back Yankees Over Red Sox, Q Poll Shows

That's because CT is just a suburb of NYC.

[sgtjer]

Bottom line, the Yankees have more class than the Red Sox.

Southern Ct. is a NYC suburb, northern is much more New England than NY.

[floridayankee]

Apr 27, 2012 14:54:10 GMT -5 sgtjer said:

Bottom line, the Yankees have more class than the Red Sox.

I agree. Slow learners usually require a lot more class.

[sgtjer]

I agree. Slow learners usually require a lot more class.

OK, don't get me comparing the number of championships between the Yankees and the Marlins, or Tampa Bay!

I have too much class for that .....

[floridayankee]

Apr 27, 2012 15:09:52 GMT -5 sgtjer said:

I agree. Slow learners usually require a lot more class.

OK, don't get me comparing the number of championships between the Yankees and the Marlins, or Tampa Bay!

I have too much class for that .....

Tampa's team payroll is about the same as Jeter's. That's sort of expected.

[sgtjer]

Tampa's team payroll is about the same as Jeter's. That's sort of expected.

Jeter's having a better year.

Growing up in NY with baseball heroes, I stay loyal to them. Saw where Moose Skowron just passed away, an old timer and hero.

Marlins won a couple titles, just goes to show you can't buy them all.

[beenherebefore]

Shea Stadium came up in Queens on the site where Moses wanted it. It was the long time home of the NY Mets, until a couple of years ago, when they were moved to City Stadium. Paul McCartney performed at the City Stadium opening, the Beatles performed at Shea Stadium back in the early sixties.

The site in Flatbush were Ebbits Field was is now a crappy neighborhood and apartments were built there. The apartment complex changed it's name from the Ebbits Field apartments to the Jackie Robinson apartments, a fewyears ago, shortly after Mr. Robinson's death.

[deziloooooo]

Apr 27, 2012 14:43:16 GMT -5 floridayankee said:

Apr 27, 2012 9:52:38 GMT -5 deziloooooo said:

Connecticut Baseball Fans Back Yankees Over Red Sox, Q Poll Shows

That's because CT is just a suburb of NYC.

Actually not so...Gold Coast, Fairfield Cty, granted many hi priced folks live there who are transplanted NYorkers, do the travel, commuters, to work thing on the train daily, but for the rest of the State, no..actually unique yankees from New England and definitly New Yorkers are many things but Yankees never to be..beyond a possible onece a year or twice trip to the big apple for a show, weekend, one of the professional sport events..

[deziloooooo]

Apr 27, 2012 15:44:41 GMT -5 beenherebefore said:

Shea Stadium came up in Queens on the site where Moses wanted it. It was the long time home of the NY Mets, until a couple of years ago, when they were moved to City Stadium. Paul McCartney performed at the City Stadium opening, the Beatles performed at Shea Stadium back in the early sixties.

The site in Flatbush were Ebbits Field was is now a crappy neighborhood and apartments were built there. The apartment complex changed it's name from the Ebbits Field apartments to the Jackie Robinson apartments, a fewyears ago, shortly after Mr. Robinson's death.

According to a report I read some time ago, Mr O'Malley saw the handwriting on the wall as the demographics began to change in the area and who was coming to the games , who his customers were becoming, ..while Brooklyn was always a working class area..there were strong middle class roots there , stable neighborhoods were the residents would have been there from generation to generation but that started to change after the war and as a business he knew he had to move out to a better local to keep his base ...he was very in tuned as to what was going to come about in his business , baseball, possible more so then many of his competitors, fellow owners..

[beenherebefore]

Yep, Mr. Levitt built the first housing development for the WWII vets on Long Island, Levittiown and then many, many more mushroomed. A lot of people moved out of Brooklyn/Queens. Including my family and my husbands family.

[mmhmm]

Gonna move this one to Sports, as well. It's not at all P&M related.