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Originally Posted by edtiques
Hope you don't mind if I post this here.I just thought it fit well with the Red Sox theme:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/red-sox-o...022522941.html
Some items belonging to one of the Boston Red Sox's early members — when the team was known as the Boston Americans — are coming up for sale. |
Common mistake. The Red Sox were never known as the "Americans."
As Boston had both National and American League teams, newspapers would refer to one as the "Boston Nationals, and the other as the "Boston Americans." But neither were team names. The Red Sox began as the Boston Pilgrims.
The same held true in NY. The NY Giants were sometimes referred as the "NY Nationals," while the Highlanders were the "NY Americans." Again, not team names.