Subway Series (continued)

[Mark Odegard]

Do we need to marvel at these terms? It was called the 'Bay
Bridge Series" until the Loma Prieta event intervened, and
ever since as the 'Earthquake Series'. What would we call it
if the Cubs met Sox in the World Series? Impossible?
Miraculous?


----- Original Message -----
From: <Bapopik at AOL.COM>

>    I checked on the Dow Jones database.  If Roger Kahn
(today's NEW YORK
> TIMES opinion--boy, does this newspaper ever check its facts
or what)is using
> this, he's way off.
>    From NEWSDAY, 10-14-1999, pg. A36:
>
>    According to baseball historians, the term "subway
series" was used for
> the first time in 1941...
>    Stan Fischler--hockey broadcaster, Brooklyn native and
author of several
> books on the subway system--first saw the term in a 1941
World Telegram
> cartoon by renowned sports cartoonist Willard Mullin, who
also created the
> Brooklyn Bum.
>