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Braves take backseat to Yankees in East
According to this map tallying Facebook likes — hat tip, Business Insider — North Carolina’s major-league baseball loyalties are closely divided between the Atlanta Braves and the New York Yankees.
Why would the Yankees engender such fan interest east of I-95? Could it be residual reverence for Catfish Hunter? Or a previously underestimated in-migration of New Yorkers?
Neither, apparently. As Business Insider observes, “The Yankees are the default team in areas without a team close-by: Louisiana, southern Virginia, New Mexico, Utah, etc.”
Sorry, Thomas Wolfe….Sorry, Charles Frazier….
“…I clicked immediately, curious to see ‘the most famous book’ set in North Carolina. Would it be Thomas Wolfe’s ‘Look Homeward Angel?’ Charles Frazier’s ‘Cold Mountain’? Or maybe ‘A Long and Happy Life,’ the debut novel that vaulted Reynolds Price to national fame?
“Wrong, wrong and wrong. The most famous book set in North Carolina, according to Business Insider, is….”
— From “What’s the most famous book set in North Carolina?” by Pam Kelley at charlotteobserver.com
A somewhat similar undertaking from 2012: “The six most influential books in telling North Carolina’s history….Discuss!”