This is a Boston Red Sox site but maybe I will wander off the RSN reservation and discuss the original Boston Red Sox, a spin-off of the legendary Cincinnati Red Stockings who started the professional ball rolling by going 57-0 in a cross-country tour in 1869.
The Reds were led by Harry Wright – an Englishman cricket player enraptured with this new game – who in 1871 along with his brother and shortstop George Wright moved to Boston and took along the name and half the players as the Reds became temporarily defunct.