Abe Lincoln: Cubs fan or White Sox fan?

[Bossy Monkey]

Poll question: Abe Lincoln: Cubs fan or White Sox fan?

[Mojambo]

1. White Sox. If he were a Cub fan he would have shot HIMSELF in the head. n/t

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

12. OK. You win (nt)

[KamaAina]

2. Cardinals.

Downstate IL including Springfield is Cardinal Country.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

3. The Cardinals can have it. nt

:-)

[MadHound]

4. WWE, Lincoln would be a wrestling fan,

In fact as a young man Lincoln did some wrestling himself.

[SoxFan]

5. Cards

Abe lived in Springfield, so he was probably a Cardinals fan.

The late Sen. Paul Simon was a diehard Cardinals fan; he gave David Axelrod a severe case of heartburn by proclaiming his allegiance to the redbirds on Chicago television during the 1984 pennant race.

[El Supremo]

6. Yankees.

[Drale]

7. Well

accually the cubs started in 1976 as the Chicago White Sockings, so if he had lived he would have been a cubs fan under the name White Stockings

[surrealAmerican]

8. You seem to be off by about a century there.

[Drale]

9. sorry

1871 the Cubs were founded, that will teach me to post off my phone without looking it over really well lol

[fishwax]

10. Cardinals

Springfield tends to pull for the Cards ...

[meow2u3]

11. I don't think Abe was a baseball fan

I doubt baseball made its way to Illinois in the mid-19th century.