词汇 | dem bums |
词源 | dem bums. This nickname for the Brooklyn Dodgers, be- loved of memory, was given to them by an irate fan seated be- hind home plate at a home game in Ebbets Field during the Great Depression. Particularly incensed at one error he shouted, “Ya bum, ya, yez bums, yez!” and his words, reported by a baseball writer, stuck as an endearing nickname for the team. It was in 1900 that the team was named the Dodgers, after all Brooklynites, who were called trolley dodgers by Manhattanites, contemptuous of all the trolleys in the bor- ough. See dodgers. |
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