While most baseball fans either love or hate the New York Yankees, the team is growing in Facebook popularity. Already the most-liked baseball team on Facebook, the Yankees have added the most likes this past week of any Major League Baseball team, and by a wide margin. The team that has gained the second-most likes this week is the Los Angeles Dodgers, followed by the Boston Red Sox, and the Atlanta Braves.
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The Major League Baseball team atop PageData‘s people talking about this leader board happens to be at the bottom of its division. The Los Angeles Dodgers, who are in last place in the National League West, are the most-talked-about team on Facebook right now, with an increase in 79,737 people discussing the club this week. In second place are divisional rivals the San Francisco Giants.
While gambling may fall afoul of Facebook’s platform policies, applications promoting gambling on sporting events for virtual currency are apparently acceptable to the social network., with soccer gambling app 90Live launching earlier this week, followed closely by BettingSTAR, which adds Major League Baseball and the National Basketball Association to its offerings, along with European soccer.
