$18K+ for a 1915 Red Sox pin!

[David Atkatz]

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.

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Originally Posted by David Atkatz

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.

Official team nicknames in the late 19th early 20th century are kind of tricky as many teams didn't have official nicknames. Has anyone ever seen any type of memorabilia with "Pilgrims" on it associated with Boston? Letterhead, program, advertising? Anything? I think most nicknames were given to teams by sports writers and some stuck, some didn't. The Nebraska football team was known as the Bugeaters and the Old Gold Antelopes before a Lincoln sports writer gave them the name Cornhuskers and it stuck. I'm not sure when the school officially adopted the name, but the school yearbook was known as "The Sombrero" until it was finally named "The Cornhusker" somewhere around 1905.

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“Bugeaters” was great!