As Fenway Park celebrates its 100-year anniversary, many have referenced the first game played between the Boston Red Sox and New York Highlanders. Keith Olbermann offers an interesting historical look at the naming of the New York franchise and why the monicker Highlanders isn’t entirely accurate:
I thought we had cleared this up yesterday, but evidently not. Now my old friend Joe Buck has repeated a mistake that has unfortunately attained the aura of official history. Simply put, when the Boston Red Sox opened Fenway Park 100 years ago Friday, the faithful would have called the visiting team “The New York Yankees” – not “The New York Highlanders” (we’ll leave out any more troublesome things they might’ve called them).
27 World Series titles and 40 AL Pennants by any other name …1
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Look, as a Rangers fan, I hate regurgitating the Yankees’ lofty accomplishments. That said, you have to respect the long-term dominance of the team. It really is quite remarkable. ↩︎