2013: MLB's Red Sox didn't Evolve from the Boston Red Stockings Jun 19, 2020
In 1871, the baseball teams the Chicago White Stockings and the Boston Redstockings were formed. Major League Baseball teams now include the Boston Red Sox and the Chicago White Sox, and while one might assume that these simply evolved as a name change, the White Stockings first evolved into the Chicago Cubs and the Red Stockings evolved into the Boston Braves, who are now the Atlanta Braves. The other teams' names as references to their socks (which in the case of the White Sox are no longer white) came later, but was a fairly common practice for the times, such as how the St. Louis Brown Stockings (now St. Louis Cardinals), or even how the Brooklyn Bridegrooms (now L.A. Dodgers) were often just referred to as the Grays in reference to the uniform.
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