The most dominant team of the first quarter-century of the National League was the Boston franchise. Baseball teams in the nineteenth century were usually known by their city name (e.g. “the Bostons”), but when nicknames were used, this team was generally known as the Red Stockings or Red Caps through about 1882 and the Beaneaters from 1883 on. The Bostons won 8 league championships during the period 1876-1900 (1877, 1878, 1883, 1891, 1892, 1893, 1897, and 1898), two more than the next best team, Chicago, which was the only other team to survive from the NL’s first season into the twentieth century. In 1901, the team lost many of its best players to the American League, and the Beaneaters became one of the NL’s worst teams. The nickname changed to the Doves in 1907 and the Rustlers in 1911 before they began to market themselves as the Braves in 1912. Prior to leaving Boston after the 1952 season, the franchise won only two more National League championships (1914 and 1948).
Posted on: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 01:06:15 +0000
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