This is all kinds of fun. The New York Times has a map which breaks down baseball fandom by county. The methodology isn’t exactly science -- it finds out the percentage of people who list a given team as their favorite in Facebook profiles by county -- but it is kind of fun.
My county is about as perfectly represented as intuition would have it: an even split between Indians and Reds fans, with a healthy dollop of Yankees fans too. That Yankees part is attributale to the longtime affiliation of the Columbus Clippers with the Yankees, the fact that -- and I should write about this some other time -- there are still a handful of random, clinging-on minority owners from the original Steinbrenner purchase of the Yankees here in Columbus and because, well, frontrunning fans will be frontrunners.
Anyway, have a ball.
