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Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth
Think about it, for many many decades, huge swaths of the country were nowhere near any major league team (unless you think the PCL was a quasi major league). I'm not talking about states in relative proximity to St. Louis or Chicago, but what if you were in the Deep South, or Texas, or the Mountain West, or the West Coast, did people there tend to root for any particular team or was it just a hodgepodge? Were California fans more in tune with the PCL? I guess I've read somewhere that fans in the South tended to root for the Cardinals, but I don't know if that's an overgeneralization.
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My grandpa grew up in the San Francisco suburbs in the late 20's and 30's. He was a San Francisco Seals fan, and the way he told it they were basically thought of as the major leagues by the locals and enjoyed a similar popularity in their immediate area with a dedicated and large fan base. Joe Dimaggio and Ferris Fain could do no wrong (except for when they left San Francisco, of course).
But we know how the way men talk about things they are nostalgic for are not always accurate, so who knows.