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The Bronx Bombers – Reference to the team's home, the New York City borough of the Bronx, along with their propensity for hitting "bombs" (home runs). The Bombers – Short version of the previous. The Baby Bombers – A description of the relatively young team in 2017 that had much more power than expected and were led by Aaron Judge , a ...
Their most prominently used nickname is "the Bronx Bombers" or simply "the Bombers", a reference to their home and their prolific hitting. The nickname "Bronx Bombers" was first used by writer Frank Wallace in a July 5, 1928, article in the New York Daily News. [396] By 1935, the name had caught on among sportswriters around the country. [397 ...
This is a list of nicknames of Major League Baseball teams and players. It includes a complete list of nicknames of players in the Baseball Hall of Fame, a list of nicknames of current players, nicknames of popular players who have played for each major league team, and lists of nicknames grouped into particular categories (e.g., ethnic nicknames, personality trait nicknames etc.). [1]
View of a night-time baseball game at Yankee Stadium between the New York Yankees and the Minnesota Twins. This is a list of professional and semi-professional sports teams based in the New York metropolitan area, including from New York City, Long Island, Lower Hudson Valley, Northern and Central New Jersey, and parts of Western Connecticut.
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Quarterback Brett Favre of the Green Bay Packers looks to pass the ball during a game against the Cincinnati Bengals at Lambeau Field in Green Bay on Sept. 20, 1992. The Packers won the game, 24 ...
Baseball teams started using nicknames early in the sport's history, though not all felt the need for one. The purported first recorded game of baseball occurred in the mid-1840s between two teams named "New York" and "Knickerbocker." Both teams were actually based in New York City.