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The name Red Sox, chosen by owner John I. Taylor after the 1907 season, refers to the red hose in the team uniform beginning.

Sox had been previously adopted for the Chicago White Sox by newspapers needing a headline-friendly form of Stockings, as " Stockings Win!

" in large type would not fit on a page.

The Spanish language media sometimes refers to the team as Medias Rojas for Red Socks.