Though Frazee owned the Boston Red Sox franchise, he did not own Fenway Park (this was owned by the Fenway Park Trust), making his ownership a precarious one - Johnson could move another team into Fenway Park in Boston. Rather, the Red Sox, White Sox and Yankees had a détente, the teams being referred to as the "Insurrectos," whose actions antagonized then AL president Ban Johnson. Legend has it that he did so in order to finance a Broadway play No, No Nanette starring 'a friend', but the play actually did not open on Broadway until 1925. In 1919, the team's new owner, Harry Frazee, sold Ruth to the New York Yankees.
The Red Sox were owned by Joseph Lannin from 1913 to 1916, who signed Babe Ruth, commonly seen as the best player in baseball history. The Sox won the Fall Classic in both years. The 19 clubs featured an outfield considered to be among the finest in the game: Tris Speaker, Harry Hooper and Duffy Lewis, as well as superstar pitcher Smokey Joe Wood.
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In the following decade, the club won four World Series championships in a six-year span despite changing ownership several times. The Boston Red Sox won the first World Series in 1903 against the favored National League team, the Pittsburgh Pirates.
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