Tuesday, August 28, 2007

What's in a name?

Ever wondered where the "Knickerbockers" name came from? I was wondering that just today, and found this New York Knickerbockers Wikipedia article interesting.
Posted by J.C.D at 12:46 PM
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1 comments:

Anonymous said...

While interesting, the article is about the baseball knickerbockers, not the basketball knickerbockers. The NY Knickers are named after Father Knickerbocker, a symbol of old NY, the equivalent of Uncle Sam as a symbol for the United States. Father Knickerbocker was a fictional character of Washington Irving, who also wrote under the pen name of Dietrich Knickerbocker.

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