Click on the 'Boston Red Stockings Roster' link on this page to go to a page that has links to their pitchers, position players, managers, and all statistics for them during their five year stay in the National Association.
The Red Sox took the old Boston Braves name of Red Stockings and changed it to Sox in the 1900's. They were originally known as the Pilgrams and also the Beaneaters but team nicknames weren't official in those days and were often the brainchild of local sports writers.
The Red Sox were a charter team of the American League when it was founded in 1901.
The first professional baseball team was the Cinncinatti Red Stockings, now known as the Reds. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cincinnati Red Stockings moved to Boston and became the Boston Red Stockings. They were a charter member of the first major league, the National Association in 1871. When the NA folded after the 1875 season, the National League came into existence and the Red Stockings became the Red Caps. The original Cincinnati Red Stockings of 1869 are the Atlanta Braves of today.
The Cincinnati Red Stockings were the first professional team that was founded in 1869. The best players of the original Red Stocking team went to Boston and founded the Boston Red Stockings (who then was re-named the Beaneaters and then the Braves. They then moved to Milwaukee and then Atlanta and are the team we recognize today). In 1876 a new Cincinnati Red Stocking team was created and eventually was expelled from the league 1880 for serving beer to fans. Two years later a third Red Stocking team was in Cincinnati, and in 1890 shortened their name to the Reds. In the 1950's the name was changed to Redlegs in fear that the team favored Communism. The team again became the Reds in the late 60's.
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The Boston Red Stockings changed their name to the Boston Red Caps for the 1876 season. The Chicago Cubs were known as the Chicago White Stockings in 1876. Click on the 'Boston Red Caps' and 'Chicago White Stockings' links on this page to see their rosters for the 1876 season.
That's a complicated question. Well, it's a simple question; the answer is complicated.The first professional baseball team was the Cincinnati Red Stockings (1869).The modern-day Cincinnati Reds claim descent from the Red Stockings, but the facts are maybe a little different. The Red Stockings disbanded (as a professional team and as a company) in 1871, and the Reds formed in 1882.The National Association of Professional Base Ball Players started in 1871 with all-professional teams (before that, professionals and amateurs had played together, sometimes on the same team). Two teams in particular ... the Chicago White Stockings and the Boston Red Stockings ... are of importance here, because they still play today.So it's the White Sox and the Red Sox, right? Wrong on both counts.The Chicago White Stockings officially became the Chicago Cubs in 1907 (the Chicago White Sox are a completely different team).The Boston Red Stockings became the Boston Braves in 1912 (in response to the formation of a rival Boston team, that eventually became the Boston Red Sox). The team then moved to Milwaukee in 1953, and then to Atlanta in 1966.The Chicago White Stockings started as a club in 1870, making them a year older than the Boston Red Stockings, which started in 1871. However, the Cubs claim is slightly tarnished by the fact that they sat out two seasons due to the Chicago Fire. The Cubs are the oldest professional baseball team, but the Braves are the oldest continuously playing baseball team (even though they've shifted cities twice).
Things like this can get complicated. Here are some facts.There has been a professional baseball team in St. Louis since 1882. They were initially called the Brown Stockings. The next year they shortened the team name to "Browns." They were also sometimes called the "Perfectos" until they adopted "Cardinals" as their official name in 1900.There has been a team called the "Red Stockings" since 1868 and they became the first fully professional baseball team ever in 1869. So they're first, right?Not so fast. Those Red Stockings were in Cincinnati, not Boston. The team folded after the 1870 season, and the manager was hired in Boston the next year to form a new team, and he brought the team name with him. This is still before 1900 (and even before 1882), so the Boston team is older, right?Er... not so much. Cincinatti formed a new team in 1876, and the name "Red Stockings" reverted to them; the Boston team was then referred to mostly as the "Red Caps". Whatever, it's just a name, the Boston team is still older than the St. Louis team ...Except THAT Boston team changed their name again (to the Braves) in 1912, and the team left Boston for Milwaukee in 1953 (and then later left Milwaukee in 1966 for Atlanta, where they remain today).The team we now call the Boston Red Sox was established in 1901 as a rival for the Boston Red Caps (they had been supposed to go to Buffalo NY, but for various reasons that didn't work out). The team didn't really have an official name and was called variously just "Boston", the "Bostonians", or the "Americans/Boston Americans" (because they were in the American League) for the first few years. They claimed the "Red Sox" name around 1908 (Cincinnati having decided to just go by "Reds" in 1890 when they switched leagues meant the Red Stockings/Red Sox name was available again).So by either founding or naming, the St. Louis Cardinals is the older of the two teams.But not the better of the two teams, as recently demonstrated.
Red Stockings was a named used by the Cincinnati team for a brief period in the 1950s and '60s during the "Cold War" era, when "Reds" was not popular because of the reference to Communists. During that period, most baseball fans still reffered to Cincinnati as the Reds, however. The Boston Red Sox, were, to best references, were never known as the Red Stockings. After additional research, baseball's first professional team, Cincinnati, was called the Red Stockings originally..but soon dropped the "Stockings" and were then known only as the Cincinnati Reds, until that brief period mentioned above, then reversed to just the Reds and have been that ever since. The Cincinnati team was first established in 1868 as the first "professional" baseball team. The Red Sox were first called the Somersets until 1905, then the Puritans for two years and the Red Sox ever since.
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