I grew up in California and asa matter of fact I lived there for 49 years and I always considered myself a yankee but I have a friend from Washington state that says Im not a yankee. Far as I know , California was involved in the Civil war between the States and we were opposed to Slavery. ehh I think I know what I am. Sheesh. Or what I would have been if I had lived during that time. Id have been a Northern Yankee opposed to slavery.
The New York Yankees are from New York, why would they play their homegames in California?
In southern Ontario, near the Yankees
In 1948 Robert was the catcher for the Class C Ventura Yankees in the California League.
New York is on the Atlantic Ocean. Cleveland is on Lake Erie. Chicago is on Lake Michigan. Los Angeles is on the Pacific Ocean.New York Yankees and the Los Angeles Dodgers because Chicago is in Illinois and Cleveland is in Ohio, neither by an ocean. :]
The Yankees did not move in 1957. Following the 1957 World Series, the New York Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers left for California. Leaving the Yankees as the only New York baseball team.
No
Grant's policy of Total War, with Sheridan laying waste to the Shenandoah Valley and Sherman carrying out his punitive raids in Georgia.
Yankees were supposedly against slavery, but the main reason this was said was to gain European sympathies during the Civil War. The war was started because the Union (yankees) wanted to keep the southern states from becoming the Confederate States of America.
The northerners were called Rebels or Johnny Reb .... Southerners were called Yankees or Billy Yank .
Nicknames for Union soldiers include Yankees and Bluebellies.
New York Yankees, California Angels, Oakland Athletics, Minnesota Twins
No, confederate is almost like the opposite of yankee. During the civil war the southern states formed the Confederate States of America, while the northern states stayed the United States of America. The term for the northern troops was Yankee, and the term for the southern troops was confederate or rebel depending on which side you're on.