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Businessman and baseball executive Byron “Ban” Johnson, who founded and became president of the minor league Western League (WL) in the early 1890s, renamed it American League (AL) in 1900. One year later, co-owner Johnson and Charles Somers’ Boston Americans joined the AL and finished in second place to the Chicago White Sox and then third to the Philadelphia Athletics and St. Louis Browns the following year. After winning the AL pennant in 1903, the Americans defeated the National League (NL) Pittsburgh Pirates in five of eight games to win professional baseball’s first World Series.
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Sources for information in this section include James Quirk and Rodney D. Fort, Pay Dirt (Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992), and Frank P. Jozsa Jr., Baseball,, Inc. (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, and such websites as http://www.baseball-reference.com and http://www.mlb.com).
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These and other highlights are in the Official Major League Baseball Fact Book 2005 Edition (St. Louis, MO: Sporting News, 2005) and “Teams,” http://www.baseball-reference.com, cited 28 January 2015.
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See Allen St. John, “Powered by Bill James and Friends, the Red Sox Win Another (Moneyball) World Series,” http://www.forbes.com, cited 9 February 2015.
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“John W. Henry, Thomas C. Werner, and Larry Lucchino,” http://www.boston.redsox.mlb.com, cited 8 August 2015
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The study is discussed in “Major League Baseball Valuations,” http://www.bloomberg.com, cited 2 February 2015.
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Paul Swaney, “2014 MLB Ballpark Experience Rankings,” http://www.stadiumjourney.com, cited 23 February 2015
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Two publications to research and interpret are “MLB Team Loyalty Winners and Losers,” http://www.brandkeys.com, cited 14 February 2015 and Barry Janoff, “Report: When It Comes to 2014 MLB Fans, the Most Loyal Group is the Cards,” http://www.nysportsjournalism.com, cited 23 February 2015.
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Paul Hoynes, “Boston Red Sox Prove (Once Again) That Competitive Balance Will Never Exist,” http://www.cleveland.com, cited 25 November 2014
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Jozsa, F.P. (2016). Boston Red Sox. In: American League Franchises. SpringerBriefs in Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25996-3_2
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