"Lastly came the KNICKERBOCKERS...These derive their name, as some say, from Knicker, to shake, and Becker, a goblet, indicating thereby that they were sturdy toss pots of yore..."
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News You Can Use: The New York #Knicks derive their name from Diedrich Knickerbocker, Washington Irving's pseudonymous elderly historian, credited with writing the hilarious and very fake A HISTORY OF NEW YORK in 1809.
