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America’s Most Miserable Sports Cities
By Tom Van Riper and Andrew Farrell, Forbes.com Apr 10, 6:22 am EDT
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Wait ‘til next year.
That sports mantra was first made famous a generation ago by fans of the Brooklyn Dodgers, a powerful baseball team that nonetheless lost five of six World Series matchups to rival New York Yankees between 1947 and 1956.
With each excruciating loss, the tortured Brooklyn faithful immediately turned their attention to the next spring, when, they figured, a championship season would at last hatch. One finally did, when “next year” arrived in 1955. But that was just a respite. Dodger fans had their hearts broken again the next year by a seven-game Series loss to the Yankees. After just one more season came the ultimate heartbreak: The team left Brooklyn for the sunshine of southern California.
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America's Most Miserable Sports Cities - Yahoo! Sports
America’s Most Miserable Sports Cities
By Tom Van Riper and Andrew Farrell, Forbes.com Apr 10, 6:22 am EDT
*
Buzz Up
*
Wait ‘til next year.
That sports mantra was first made famous a generation ago by fans of the Brooklyn Dodgers, a powerful baseball team that nonetheless lost five of six World Series matchups to rival New York Yankees between 1947 and 1956.
With each excruciating loss, the tortured Brooklyn faithful immediately turned their attention to the next spring, when, they figured, a championship season would at last hatch. One finally did, when “next year” arrived in 1955. But that was just a respite. Dodger fans had their hearts broken again the next year by a seven-game Series loss to the Yankees. After just one more season came the ultimate heartbreak: The team left Brooklyn for the sunshine of southern California.
Rest of story
America's Most Miserable Sports Cities - Yahoo! Sports