NYT Maps Baseball Fandom by Zip Code

Would link but under 7 day rule.

So, no White Sox fans, but people living in Indianapolis root for the Cubs?

Phil McCrackin wrote:So, no White Sox fans, but people living in Indianapolis root for the Cubs?

Looking at the actual NYT page, it seems they are closely split between the Cubs, Yankees and Reds. It is funny to see how small the White Sox' footprint is.

AvgMSUJoe wrote:

Just looked at the map. Apparently there are no Met, A's fans. (probably other teams I can't remember...)

And vast chunks of Yankee fans in Nevada, Montana and New Mexico.

There are no Zip Codes where fans of those teams are the majority. Yankees and Red Sox seem to have the broadest appeal.

The sad part is this map didn't look any different when the Nationals were still the Expos.

Wow, the Braves have the deep south pretty much locked up.

My FIL grew up in Oklahoma and is a Dodgers fan. He said as a kid, they were the only team he could get radio broadcasts of regularly.

I like to call him out for being bandwagon.

Is the red in Alaska Rangers fans? Angels?

Green Ninja wrote:Is the red in Alaska Rangers fans? Angels?

Red Sox

R.P. McMurphy wrote:

Red Sox

Good call.

Phil McCrackin wrote:So, no White Sox fans, but people living in Indianapolis root for the Cubs?  

Helped by the charm of their field and by WGN’s national broadcast reach, the Cubs have always been the better-loved of Chicago’s two teams. But the White Sox — unlike the Mets or the A’s — do have a patch of their own territory, on the city’s South Side and into the southern suburbs. Interstate 290 (the Dwight D. Eisenhower Expressway) is a rough guide to the border: Know whether you're north or south of it before you put on your hat.