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Fenway Park

Boston Red Sox

David Ortiz

The Boston Red Sox are a professional baseball team based in Boston, Massachusetts, and a member of Major League Baseball’s American League Eastern Division. Founded in 1901 as one of the American League’s eight charter franchises, the Red Sox’s home ballpark has been Fenway Park since 1912. The “Red Sox” name was cho-sen by the team owner, John I. Taylor, around 1908, fol-lowing previous Boston teams that had been known as the “Red Stockings”. They played in eleven World Series, third most of any team remaining in one city, after the New York Yankees and the Saint Louis Cardinals.They won seven of these, also third most of any team remaining in one city, again after the New York Yankees and Saint Louis Cardinals.

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Boston Celtics

Kevin Garnett

The Boston Celtics are a National Basketball Association (NBA) team based in Boston, Mas-sachusetts. They play in the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference. Founded in 1946, the team is currently owned by Boston Basket-ball Partners LLC. The Celtics play their home games at the TD Garden, which they share with the Boston Bruins of the NHL. The Celtics’ 17 NBA Championships are the most for any NBA franchise,[1] with their Western Conference rival, the Los Angeles Lakers, following behind with 16 NBA Titles. From 1957 to 1969, the Celtics dominated the league winning 11 cham-pionships in 13 years, and eight in a row (1959–1966), the longest consecutive championship streak of any North American pro sports team.

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New England PatriotsIn the 2000s the Patriots became one of the most successful teams in NFL history. They are currently tied for second with 6 appearances in a Super Bowl, and have the most appearances in the last 25 years. Between 2001–2010, the Patriots set a record for most wins in a decade (126, different from conventionally bounded decades, 2000–2009, 1990–1999, etc; this record references any 10 year stretch; 2nd is the 1984–1993 San Francisco 49ers, with 120 wins). Between 2001 and 2005, the Patriots became the second team in NFL history (after the Dallas Cowboys) to win three Super Bowls in four years (Super Bowl XXXVI, XXXVIII, and XXXIX), and the eighth (and as of the present time, the last team to date) to win consecutive Super Bowls. The Patriots, however, were defeated by the New York Giants in Super Bowl XLII, after winning the first 18 games of their 2007 season. Under quarterback Tom Brady and head coach Bill Belichick, the Patriots have also compiled the longest winning streak consisting of regular season and playoff games in NFL history, a 21-game streak from October 2003–October 2004.

Tom Brady

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Boston SportsTitle Town

Boston, Massachusetts, is home to several major league sports teams, including the Boston Red Sox (base-ball), Boston Celtics (basketball), and Boston Bruins (hockey). The New England Patriots (football) and New England Revolution (soccer) play at Gillette Stadium in nearby Foxborough.The city is home to two renowned sporting events: the Boston Mara-thon and the Head of the Charles Regatta. Several Boston-area col-leges and universities are active in college athletics.In the 2000s Boston’s professional teams had arguably the most suc-cessful decade in sports history, winning 7 championships (3 by

the Patriots, 2 by the Red Sox, and 1 each by the Celtics and Bruins). When the Bruins reached the 2011 Stanley Cup Finals, the city of Bos-ton became the first city in the 21st Century to have all four of its ma-jor professional league teams win a league championship, and it is the only city ever to have champion-ships in all four major professional leagues within a ten-year span (from the Patriots’ victory in February 2005 to the Bruins’ in June 2011). In just six years, between February 2005 and June 2011, Boston’s teams completed what Sports Illustrated dubbed as the “Grand Slam of North American sports”.

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Boston Bruins

TD Garden

The Boston Bruins are a professional ice hockey team based in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. They are members of the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). The team has been in existence since 1924, and is the league’s third-oldest team and its oldest in the United States. It is also an Original Six franchise, along with the Chi-cago Blackhawks, Detroit Red Wings, Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers, and Toronto Maple Leafs. The Bruins have won six Stanley Cup championships, the fourth most all-time and second most of any American NHL team (behind the Red Wings, who have 11). Their home arena is the TD Garden, where they have played since 1995. Prior to 1995, the team played its home games at the Boston Garden for 67 seasons, beginning in 1928.

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