Sox Team
Posted in Uncategorized on 12/14/2004 10:24 pm by admin
What Does Sox Mean in The 2 MLB Team Names?
I know that ‘sox’ is short for stockings, but why would Chicago and Boston name their teams for colored stockings?
Also who copied who for the name?
“In 1900, the Western League changed its name to the American League. It was still officially a minor league, subject to the governing National Agreement and an underling of the National League. The NL actually gave permission to the AL to put a team in Chicago, provided he not use the city name in the team’s branding. Comiskey moved his St. Paul club to the Near South Side and renamed it the White Stockings, grabbing a nickname that had once been used by the Chicago Cubs. The White Stockings won the 1900 American League pennant, the final WL/AL championship season as a minor league.[1] After the season, the AL declined to renew its membership in the National Agreement and declared itself a major league.
After acquiring a number of stars from the older league, including pitcher and manager Clark Griffith, the White Stockings also captured the AL’s first major-league pennant the next year, in 1901. Headline editors at the Chicago Tribune sports department immediately began shortening the name to “White Sox,” and the team officially adopted the shorter name in 1904.”
So the white Sox were the Sox first, but the White Sox stole their original AL team name from the Cubs who used to be the White Stockings. (So that is how old the White Sox Verse Cubs antagonism is)
Globe 10.0: Is this the best Sox team of the Theo era?
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