“The owners do fiddle with a few things. In the American League, John Taylor, owner of the Boston team, decides to redesign the team’s uniform, switching from light-blue stockings to red ones. Taylor jokes, “You newspaper men will have to pick a new nickname for my team,”10 then known as the Pilgrims, and previously as the Collinsites, Puritans, Somersets, and even Yankees(!). He modestly proposes one possibility: Red Sox.11”