10 Point to....... Answer to Who, What, Where, - Yankee????!
Question: I always wondered why New York had the Yankees when it is really the nick name of another State occupant. The general meaning was really all of New England, but what state really has right to call themselves Yankees? That state also has it as there state song.
Answers: I always wondered why New York had the Yankees when it is really the nick name of another State occupant. The general meaning was really all of New England, but what state really has right to call themselves Yankees? That state also has it as there state song.
Connecticut is the answer.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Authors Court.
Yankee Doodle is the state song.
I am a Connecticut Yankee.
We are also know as the
Constitution State &
Nutmegers
Because New York wanted the Yankees. Who knows?
"The "Yankees" name originated as a variation of "American", after the team's league. This name is often shortened to "the Yanks". Their most prominently used nickname is "the Bronx Bombers" or simply "the Bombers", a reference to their home and their prolific hitting.
The team came to be known as the New York Highlanders, a reference to the team's location and also to the noted British military unit The Gordon Highlanders, which fit as the team's president from 1903 to 1906 was Joseph Gordon.
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Now playing on the Harlem River, a far cry from their high-altitude home, the name "Highlanders" no longer applied, and fell into disuse among the press. The media had also called the team the "Yankees" (a synonym for "Americans", the team being an American League franchise) for a number of years, so in 1913 the team became known exclusively as the New York Yankees."