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The Boston Red Sox are a [[major league baseball]] team based out of [[Boston, Massachusetts]]. | The Boston Red Sox are a [[major league baseball]] team based out of [[Boston, Massachusetts]] and the current [[World Series Champions]]. They play in the Eastern Division of the [[American League]] | ||
==History== | |||
===Golden Age (1900-1919)=== | |||
The team was founded in 1900 as one of the newly christened American League's showcase teams, put in direct competition with the older and more established National League team in town. | |||
For the first two decades of its existence, the team (first known as the Pilgrims, Somersets, Americans, Beaneaters, and eventually as the Red Stockings by 1907{{ref|http://www.sportsecyclopedia.com/al/bosox/redsox.html}}, which eventually was reduced to its current form we see today) was one of the league's best franchises, winning [[pennant|pennants]] in 1903, 1904, 1912, 1915, 1916 and 1918 on the backs of legendary baseball figures such as [[Cy Young]], [[Tris Speaker]], [[Smoky Joe Wood]] and [[Babe Ruth]]. Ruth's sale to the [[New York Yankees]] in the winter of 1919 would begin a dark age for the team and the beginning of a fierce rivalry between the two teams | |||
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Revision as of 09:53, 22 February 2008
The Boston Red Sox are a major league baseball team based out of Boston, Massachusetts and the current World Series Champions. They play in the Eastern Division of the American League
History
Golden Age (1900-1919)
The team was founded in 1900 as one of the newly christened American League's showcase teams, put in direct competition with the older and more established National League team in town.
For the first two decades of its existence, the team (first known as the Pilgrims, Somersets, Americans, Beaneaters, and eventually as the Red Stockings by 1907Template:Ref, which eventually was reduced to its current form we see today) was one of the league's best franchises, winning pennants in 1903, 1904, 1912, 1915, 1916 and 1918 on the backs of legendary baseball figures such as Cy Young, Tris Speaker, Smoky Joe Wood and Babe Ruth. Ruth's sale to the New York Yankees in the winter of 1919 would begin a dark age for the team and the beginning of a fierce rivalry between the two teams