The American League's Boston Pilgrims won the first of these in 1903
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The World Series - ClassZone.com  The veteran Boston Pilgrims pitcher Cy Young threw the first pitch of the first World Series. ... Leach, who played third base for the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first World Series in 1903. ... National League lost to the Boston Pilgrims of the newly formed American League. Cy Young won two games for Boston during the series.
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1903 World Series - BR Bullpen - Baseball-Reference.com  Boston Pilgrims ... The 1903 World Series was the first modern World Series played, between the ... The Boston Americans defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates 5 games to 3. ... As the players' contracts in the American League ended on September 30, ... With these ground rules set, the stage was ready for what would become...
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The Boston Pilgrims Never Existed by Bill Nowlin - Baseball Almanac  "I cannot find any contemporary indication that the Boston American League baseball club was ever known as the Pilgrims in 1903. ... Among these sites are those of Major League Baseball and Baseball Reference. ... The Red Sox Media Guide, for example, details the story of how the team first became known as the Red...
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Boston Red Sox - Wikipedia  The Boston Red Sox are an American professional baseball team based in Boston, Massachusetts. The Red Sox compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) East division. The Red Sox have won eight World Series championships and have played ... Founded in 1901 as one of the American League's eight charter franchises,...
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1903 Boston Americans - BR Bullpen - Baseball-Reference.com  Aug 14, 2015 ... The 1903 Boston Americans won the first World Series. A number of sources claim that the team was known as the "Boston Pilgrims", but it was not so. One or two ... American League, W, L, T, GB, Pct. Boston Pilgrims, 91, 47...
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Chronology: 1856 - 1860 - Protoball  Feb 23, 2013 ... "In the summer of 1856 . . . there were 53 games in New York and the .... The Dedham rules of 1858 specified at least ten players on a team. .... 90-Foot Base Paths, Nine-Player Teams, but not the Fly Rule ...... They also were the first in the production of the two-piece figure-eight stitch cover baseball, the...
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Jeopary Question, IN THE "RED" - TriviaBistro.com  Next Question. These Boston ballplayers were formerly known as the Pilgrims & the Puritans. This question originally aired on February 25, 1997. waiting...
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The English High School - Wikipedia  The English High School of Boston, Massachusetts is one of the first public high schools in America, founded in 1821. ... Nowadays, English High has opened up its curriculum to include more liberal arts subjects such as ... Former MLB player (New York Yankees, St. Louis Browns, Brooklyn Dodgers, Philadelphia Phillies)...
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History of Thanksgiving - Thanksgiving - HISTORY.com  In 1621, the Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Indians shared an autumn harvest feast ... days of thanksgiving were celebrated by individual colonies and states. ... One month later, the Mayflower crossed Massachusetts Bay, where the Pilgrims, ... In November 1621, after the Pilgrims' first corn harvest proved successful,...
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J! Archive - Show #3524, aired 1999-12-23  The American League's Boston Pilgrims won the first of these in 1903 .... Daniel Pierce Thompson wrote an 1839 novel about these "Boys" led by Ethan Allen...
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The Pilgrims - Facts & Summary - HISTORY.com  These original settlers of Plymouth Colony are known as the Pilgrim Fathers, or simply as ... In 1607, after illegally breaking from the Church of England, the Separatists ... their trip aboard the Mayflower, a three-masted merchant ship, in 1620. ... call Plymouth Harbor, on the western side of Cape Cod Bay, in mid-December.
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Famous Firsts in the Lively Ball Era by Baseball Almanac  Bill Wambsganss turns the first and only unassisted triple play in World ... Luke Stuart is first American League player to hit a home run in his first at bat. ... The first World Series game heard on a radio station is broadcast via KDKA in Pittsburgh. ... Ken Williams becomes the first player in history to have thirty home runs and...
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1903 World Series - Wikipedia  The 1903 World Series was the first modern World Series to be played in Major League ... In the series, Boston came back from a three games to one deficit, winning ... in the 1925 World Series, and has happened only ten times in baseball history. ... however, scotched the idea of a championship between the two leagues.
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Boston Red Sox - Treading water? - Boston.com  Jul 16, 2007 ... Your first baseman, third baseman, and DH are productive, your center fielder .... the term "around the horn", which refers to a double play started by the third ... It refers to the long voyage from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. ... ships had to travel south past the tip of South America, Cape Horn, to get...
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Fenway Park Facts and Figures | Boston Red Sox  Green Monster: 269 ... In 1914, the "Miracle Boston Braves" played the latter part of their season, ... The all-star game alternated between Fenway Park and sites closer to the ACL's teams, such as Yankee Stadium and Veterans Stadium.
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The First Professional Baseball Team Was the 1869 Cincinnati Red ...  Apr 4, 2011 ... Today I found out the first fully professional baseball team was the 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings, ten men on salary for eight months from March 15th to ... The Cincinnati Red Stockings won their first game on May 4th, 1869 by a score of 45-9. ... The Boston Red Sox were not established until 1901.
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The Pilgrims and Plymouth Colony:1620 - RootsWeb - Ancestry.com  This is what we call a "State Church. ... It was the Pilgrims who celebrated that first Thanksgiving with the Indians. ... In 1607 the Scrooby Separatists made their first attempt to leave England bound for Amsterdam. ... Their years in Leiden seem to have been peaceful for the most part until William Brewster (who had become a...
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Team Chronology - Retrosheet  Oct 4, 2004 ... NA. Boston Chicago Cleveland Fort Wayne New York Philadelphia Rockford Troy ... 1901. AL. Baltimore Boston Chicago Cleveland Detroit Milwaukee ... Milwaukee. 1998. AL. Tampa Bay, Milwaukee (to NL). 2005. NL.
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April 19, 1897: John J. McDermott Wins the First Boston Marathon ...  Apr 19, 2016 ... The race was called the American Marathon and scheduled for Patriot's Day (April 19th) as the final event of the 1897 Boston Athletic...
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May 5, 1904. Cy Young pitches the American League's first perfect ...  May 5, 1904. Cy Young pitches the American League's first perfect game as the Boston Red Sox defeat the Philadelphia Athletics, 3-0. | See more about Cy...
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So, wouldn't it be WAAAY cool if The Sox (MA) won the ALCS, the ...  Oct 19, 2004 ... I read your memories for the most part, but if I find some dull I just skip ... (old North Attleboro boy). ... Growing up in Lonicut, it never occurred to me that the church ..... a 5-year-old who thought she was being sold off to the highest bidder! .... Was in massachusetts in July showing my grandkids where I grew...