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They won the inaugural World Series in ( as the Boston Americans ; the team changed its name to Red Sox in 1908 ) and four more between 1912 and 1918.
During this period, the Yankees were often called the Highlanders, in reference to playing games in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan.
In 1901, the Yankees, then known as the Baltimore Orioles, played in Maryland for two seasons before moving north.
The two teams had their first meeting while the Yankees franchise was in Baltimore on April 26, 1901, the inaugural year of the American League.
On May 7, 1903, both teams played for the first time after the franchise moved to New York and became the Highlanders.
Later in the season, the Highlanders, led by pitcher Jack Chesbro in his record-setting 41 game-winning season, met the Boston Americans in the season's final game to decide the American League pennant winner.
Chesbro threw a wild pitch in the top of the ninth inning, allowing the winning run to score from third base, and Boston won the game, and the pennant.
However, the New York Giants, who had already clinched the National League pennant, refused to play in the 1904 World Series because of a perception of the " Junior Circuit " as being inferior ( and because of alleged animosity between American League founder and first president, Ban Johnson, and the hierarchy of the Giants, owner John T. Brush and his team's Hall of Fame coach, player-manager John McGraw ); thus, there was no World Series that year.
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