Let's take a quick trip back to baseball's "primordial soup" days with a photographic glimpse of the New York Knickerbockers and Brooklyn Excelsiors from way back yonder in eighteen hundred and ...
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The Disappearance of Diedrich Knickerbocker: How Washington Irving’s Clever Hoax Named the New York Knicks
On October 26, 1809, New Yorkers opened the Evening Post to a notice titled “Distressing.” The report lived up to its label. A “small elderly gentleman” named Knickerbocker had vanished, last seen ...
TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...
You probably know that the full name of the New York Knicks—one of our beloved, disastrous local basketball teams—is actually the New York Knickerbockers. But do you know why they're called that—or ...
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