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The Red Sox were a charter team of the American League when it was founded in 1901.
Babe Ruth started his baseball career as a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox.
For the 2007 regular season, the Red Sox team batting average was .279, which was 5th best in the American League.
In 1914, his first year with the Red Sox, Ruth was optioned to the Providence Greys, a minor league team that was part of the Red Sox farm system. The next year, Ruth won a spot on the starting rotation of the Sox.
The Boston Red Sox are a Major League Baseball (MLB) team.