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Boston Red Sox
2024 Boston Red Sox season
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Team logoCap insignia
Major league affiliations
Current uniform
Retired numbers1, 4, 8, 9, 27, 42
Name
  • Boston Red Sox (1908–present)
Boston Americans (1901-1907)
Other nicknames
  • The Sox, The BoSox, The Olde Towne Team, The Bean Town Bums
Ballpark
Major league titles
World Series titles (6)2004 • 1918 • 1916 • 1915
1912 • 1903
AL Pennants (11)2004 • 1986 • 1975 • 1967
1946 • 1918 • 1916 • 1915
1912 • 1904 • 1903
East Division titles (6)2007 • 1995 • 1990 • 1988 • 1986
1975
Wild card berths (5)2005 •2004 • 2003 • 1999
1998
Front office
Principal owner(s)John Henry and Tom Werner
General managerTheo Epstein
ManagerTerry Francona

The Boston Red Sox's are a professional baseball team based in Boston, Massachusetts. The Red Sox are a member and currently champions of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball’s American League. From 1912 to the present, the Red Sox have played in Fenway Park.

The "Red Sox" name originates from the iconic uniform feature. They are nicknamed "the BoSox," a combination of "Boston" and "Sox" (as opposed to the "ChiSox"), and "the Olde Towne Team." Most fans, however, simply refer to them as "the Sox."

One of the American League's eight charter franchises, the club was founded in Boston in 1901. Then known as the Boston Americans, they played at Huntington Avenue Grounds, and met the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first World Series. In 1918, the team won its fifth World Series, and then went into one of the longest championship droughts in baseball history. Many attributed the phenomenon to the "Curse of the Bambino" said to have been caused by the trade of Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees in 1920. The drought was ended, and the "curse" reversed in 2004, when the team won their sixth World Series Championship.

The Red Sox lead all other MLB teams in average road attendance[1], while the small capacity of Fenway causes them to rank 11th in home attendance.[2] Every home game since May 15, 2003 to the present has been sold out, a span of well over four years.[3]

The name originated with the Cincinnati Red Stockings, 1867-1870 member of the pioneering National Association of Base Ball Players. Managed by Harry Wright, Cincinnati adopted a uniform with white knickers and red stockings, and earned the famous nickname, a year or two before hiring the first fully professional team in 1869. When the club folded after the 1870 season, Wright was hired to organize a new team in Boston, and he did, bringing three teammates and the "Red Stockings" nickname along. (Most nicknames were then only nicknames, neither club names nor registered trademarks, so the migration was informal.) The Boston Red Stockings won four championships in the five seasons of the new National Association, the first professional league. The success of the two teams in Cincinnati and Boston gave "Red Stockings" and other "Red" nicknames some historical and profitable grounding there and probably grounded other "Stockings" nicknames in other cities.

Boston and a new Cincinnati club were charter members of the National League in 1876. Perhaps in deference to the Cincinnati history, many people reserved the "Red Stockings" nickname for that city; the Boston team is commonly called "Red Caps" today. Other names were sometimes used before Boston officially adopted the nickname "Braves" in 1912; that club is now based in Atlanta.

In 1901, the American League led by Ban Johnson declared itself equal to the National League and established a competing club in Boston. For seven seasons, the AL team wore dark blue stockings and had no official nickname. They were simply "Boston" or "the Bostons"; or the "Americans" or "Boston Americans" as in "American Leaguers," Boston being a two-team city. Their 1901-1907 jerseys, both home and road, simply read "Boston," except for 1902 when they sported large letters "B" and "A" denoting "Boston" and "American." On December 18, 1907, Taylor announced that the club had officially adopted red as its new team color.

The Red Sox are one of two teams in the American League with Sox in their name, the Chicago White Sox being the other.


Summary

  • Called "Bostons" or "Boston Americans" or (in Boston) "Americans" from 1901 to 1907
  • Called "Boston Red Sox" or "Red Sox" from 1908 to present
  • Name often shortened to "Bosox" or "BoSox" by headline writers - to distinguish from the Chicago White Sox (or "ChiSox") - and also called simply "The Sox" by the team's fans.

Baseball Hall of Famers

  • Affiliation according to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
* Inducted as Red Sox
** Wears Red Sox cap on Hall Of Fame plaque, but spent more time on other teams

Notable seasons and team records

  • Cy Young in 1901 won 41.8% of the team's 79 games. He won the pitching Triple Crown with 33 wins, 1.62 ERA and 158 strikeouts. [1]
  • Dutch Leonard posted a modern record 0.96 ERA in 1914. [2]
  • Earl Webb set the single-season doubles record in 1931 with 67. [3]
  • Jimmie Foxx hit 50 home runs in 1938, which would stand as a club record for 68 years. Foxx also drove in a club record 175 runs. [4]
  • Ted Williams hit .406 in 1941, the last time a major leaguer has hit above .400 in a full season. Williams also established club records in slugging percentage (.741) and on base percentage (.553). [5]
  • In 1967, Carl Yastrzemski became the last major leaguer to win the Triple Crown, hitting .326 with 44 home runs and 121 RBI's. He finished one vote short of a unanimous MVP selection, as, in a famous controversy, a Minnesota sportswriter placed Twins center fielder Cesar Tovar first on his ballot. [6]
  • In 1975, twenty-three year old Fred Lynn became the first player in major league history to win the MVP award and the Rookie of the Year award in the same season. [7]
  • In 1986, Roger Clemens won the Cy Young and MVP, finished with a 2.48 ERA, and had a 20-strikeout game. [8]
  • In 1995, Mo Vaughn won the MVP award. He is the last Red Sox player to do so.
  • Pedro Martinez in 2000 had one of the greatest pitching seasons of all time — a 1.74 ERA in a hitter's park in a big-hitting era. [9]
  • Nomar Garciaparra hit .372 in 2000, the club record for a right-handed hitter. [10]
  • David Ortiz in 2005 had 47 home runs and 148 RBI's. He also had many game winning and timely hits and came in second in the MVP voting to the New York Yankees 3B Alex Rodriguez. [11]
  • David Ortiz had a franchise record-breaking 2006 season with 54 home runs in the regular season
  • In 2006, The Boston Red Sox had the highest payroll of any team in Major League history to not make the playoffs. [12]
  • On April 22, 2007, Manny Ramirez, J.D. Drew, Mike Lowell, and Jason Varitek hit four consecutive home runs in the 3rd inning, the first time in Red Sox history this feat has occurred. All four home runs were off of 10 pitches from Chase Wright of the New York Yankees in his second Major League start and his fourth above Single-A ball. This was the fifth time in Major League history that such a feat had occurred. Additionally notable, J.D. Drew, then with the Dodgers, previously contributed to a four consecutive home run series as had Red Sox manager Terry Francona's father, Tito Francona.
  • The overall regular season winning percentage since club inception in 1901 is .513, a record of 8497-7960 (as of the 2007 All Star Break). They started 2007 with winning percentage of .512 (8444-7960). [13]
  • On September 1, 2007, Clay Buchholz no-hit the Baltimore Orioles in his second Major League start. He is the first Red Sox rookie and 17th Red Sox pitcher to throw a no-hitter.[4]
  • On September 22nd, 2007, with a victory over the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, the Red Sox clinched a spot in the postseason for the fourth time in five years, the first time in club history this has happened. Also, with this postseason berth, manager Terry Francona becomes the first manager in team history to lead the club to three playoff appearances.

Radio and television

Currently, the flagship radio station of the Red Sox is WRKO, 680 AM. Joe Castiglione, in his 25th year as the voice of the Red Sox, serves as the lead play-by-play announcer, along with the rotating team of Dave O'Brien and Glenn Geffner. Some of Castiglione's predecessors include Curt Gowdy, Ken Coleman, and Dick Stockton. He has also worked with play-by-play veterans Bob Starr and Jerry Trupiano. Many stations throughout New England and beyond pick up the broadcasts. In addition WEEI 850 AM, WRKO's sister station and former Red Sox flagship station, broadcast all day games and Wednesday night games.

All Red Sox telecasts not shown nationally on FOX or ESPN are seen on New England Sports Network (NESN) with Don Orsillo calling play-by-play and Jerry Remy, former Red Sox second baseman, as color analyst. Tina Cervasio holds the duties of field reporter. NESN became exclusive in 2003; before then, games were shown on such local stations as WBZ, WSBK, WLVI, WABU, and WFXT at various points in team history.

Minor league affiliations

See also

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Notes

  1. ^ http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/attendance?sort=away_avg&year=2007&seasonType=2
  2. ^ http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/attendance?sort=home_avg&year=2007&seasonType=2
  3. ^ http://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/2007-05-15-261793538_x.htm
  4. ^ http://insider.espn.go.com/espn/blog/index?entryID=3001530&name=Neyer_Rob

References

  • Nowlin, Bill and Prime, Jim (2005). Feud: The Red Sox, The Yankees, and the Struggle of Good versus Evil. Rounder Books. ISBN 1-57940-111-2.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Stout, Glenn and Johnson, Richard A. (2000). Red Sox Century. Houghton Mifflin Company. ISBN 0-395-88417-9.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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