Facebook has produced a map showing which Major League Baseball team is most popular in every county across the US, as well as Canada as a whole, and some interesting patterns emerge.
Here is the map:
Some interesting notes:
- It stinks to be the second team in a small geographic area. The New York Mets and Oakland A's are the only teams not represented. The Chicago White Sox, however, do have a small slice in Chicago's South Side. The Toronto Blue Jays are represented only in Canada.
- The New York Yankees are the most popular team in at least one county in 24 states and tend to be the go-to team in areas with no nearby franchise.
- California is more pro-San Francisco Giants, who dominate in central and northern California, than the Los Angeles Dodgers, who claim most of southern Cali.
- The Giants dominate most of Hawaii, while Alaska is split between the Yankees, Boston Red Sox, and Seattle Mariners.
- Last year's World Series teams, the San Francisco Giants and Kansas City Royals, had the biggest growth in number of counties from 2014 to 2015.
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Posted by Sports on Facebook on Wednesday, April 1, 2015