Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 23:56:45 -0400

From: "Barry A. Popik" Bapopik[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]AOL.COM

Subject: "Addressed to a New Yorker Who Scoffed at Yankees"



Abby Allin wrote a popular poem for the Boston Journal that was later

republished in HOME BALLADS: A BOOK FOR NEW ENGLANDERS in 1851. The poem

illustrates that "Yankees" were NOT "New York Yankees," but rather "New

England Yankees," or "Connecticut Yankees." I didn't cite the poem in my

"Origin of the New York Yankees" essay, but here it is:



A YANKEE BALLAD.



ADDRESSED TO A NEW YORKER WHO SCOFFED AT YANKEES



Yes, Sir, I am a Yankee girl,

I glory in the name!

You spake it in contemptuous scorn,

To me it breathes of fame;

I'm proud of my nativity--

New England good and great,

Is head and shoulders taller, sir,

Than your boasted Empire State! ...