Today in sports history -- Emmett Kelly

On this date 50 years ago, the Los Angeles Dodgers announced that former Brooklyn Dodgers mascot Emmett Kelly, the legendary clown, would not be moving with the team to the West Coast. Kelly had been a major attraction with the Barnum & Bailey Circus for a decade and a half, but left in a labor dispute and became an employee of the Dodgers for two years. He had been working full-time as a clown since 1931. You can find out more about Emmett Kelly at the Emmett Kelly Museum in his hometown of Sedan, Kansas.

Sedan is the largest city and county seat of Chautauqua County, with 1,342 people in the 2000 census. Of such places are great clowns made. As far as I know, no rival cities are named Hatchback, Station Wagon or Sport Utility Vehicle.