Given the media's penchant for citing popular culture, that nickname was also possibly influenced by the then-current and hugely popular America-centric George M. Cohan Broadway play, "Little Johnny Jones", and its centerpiece song, "Yankee Doodle Dandy". New York writers had similarly coined both the established nickname Brooklyn "[Trolley] Dodgers" and the nickname "Superbas" that the denizens of Flatbush carried for a while.
Given the media's tendency to reference popular culture, it is possible that this nickname was also inspired by the then-very popular George M. Cohan Broadway play, "Little Johnny Jones", and its catchy song, "Yankee Doodle Dandy". In a similar vein, New York writers had previously used both the well-known nickname Brooklyn "[Trolley] Dodgers" and the nickname "Superbas" that the people of Flatbush used for a period.