Team: Boston Red Sox
Sport: Baseball
Background: The Boston Red Sox are
a Major League Baseball team located in Boston, Massachusetts.
They are in the American League East Division.
Founded: 1893, as the Toledo, Ohio
franchise in the minor Western League. Moved to Boston
when that league became the American League in 1900.
Formerly known as: Boston Americans
(1901), Boston Somersets (1902), Boston Pilgrims (1903-1906).
Current ownership: John Henry and
Tom Werner, who paid $660 million and assumed $40 million
in debt, in February 2002. The purchase includes Fenway
Park and 80 percent of New England Sports Network. The
purchase price set a record for a major league baseball
franchise.
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Home ballpark: Fenway Park
Uniform colors: Navy blue, Red, and
White
Logo design: Two hanging red socks
Wild Card titles won (3): 1998, 1999,
2003
Division championships won (5): 1975,
1986, 1988, 1990, 1995
American League pennants won (10):
1903, 1904, 1912, 1915, 1916, 1918, 1946,
1967, 1975, 1986
World Series championships won (5):
1903, 1912, 1915, 1916, 1918
Early 20th century
The Boston Red Sox won the first World Series
in 1903. In the following decade, the club won four
World Series in a six-year span despite changing ownership
several times. The 1912 and 1915 clubs featured an outfield
considered to be among the finest in the game: Tris
Speaker, Harry Hooper and Duffy Lewis.
The Red Sox were owned by Joseph Lannin from 1913 to
1916 and he signed Babe Ruth, commonly seen as the best
player in baseball history. In 1919, the team's new
owner, Harry Frazee, sold Ruth to the New York Yankees.
Legend has it that he did so in order to finance a Broadway
play No, No Nanette starring 'a friend', but in actual
fact the play did not open on Broadway until 1925. Rather,
Frazee sold Ruth, and a host of other star players such
as Sad Sam Jones and Carl Mays, to Colonel Jacob Ruppert's
New York Yankees, in order to pay off debts from the
failures of other shows. The players formed the nucleus
of the first championship Yankee teams of the 20s. Since
the gutting of their championship team, the Red Sox
have never won a World Series, and many in the media
speak of the Curse of the Bambino - a play on one of
Ruth's nicknames. The contract was a straight sale;
the Red Sox got no players in return. Serious fans consider
the curse to be a lot of nonsense, and take little note
of such thoughts. Though Sox fans annually struggle
to understand their misfortune.
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