This day in baseball: The Boston Braves are born
The Boston Rustlers (formerly the Doves) were purchased by New York politician James E. Gaffney and former player, now lawyer, John Montgomery Ward on December 13, 1911. The team would be called the Braves because of Gaffney’s Tammany Hall connections, which used an Indian chief as its symbol.
John Montgomery Ward (public doman/Wikimedia Commons)