<P> The name Red Sox , chosen by owner John I. Taylor after the 1907 season , refers to the red hose in the team uniform beginning 1908 . 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 team name `` Red Sox '' had previously been used as early as 1888 by a ' colored ' team from Norfolk , Virginia . The Spanish language media sometimes refers to the team as Medias Rojas , a translation of `` red socks '' . The official Spanish site uses the variant `` Los Red Sox '' . </P>
<P> The name Red Sox , chosen by owner John I. Taylor after the 1907 season , refers to the red hose in the team uniform beginning 1908 . 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 team name `` Red Sox '' had previously been used as early as 1888 by a ' colored ' team from Norfolk , Virginia . The Spanish language media sometimes refers to the team as Medias Rojas , a translation of `` red socks '' . The official Spanish site uses the variant `` Los Red Sox '' . </P>
where did the name red socks come from
where did the name red socks come from
red hose in the team uniform
red hose in the team uniform