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The Boston Red Sox are an American professional baseball team based in Boston, Massachusetts.

The Red Sox compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) East division.

The Red Sox have won eight World Series championships and have played in 13.

Founded in as one of the American League's eight charter franchises, the Red Sox' home ballpark has been Fenway Park since.

The "Red Sox" name was chosen by the team owner, John I.

Taylor, around, following the lead of previous teams that had been known as the "Boston Red Stockings", including the forerunner of the Atlanta Braves.

The Boston Celtics are an American professional basketball team based in Boston, Massachusetts.

The Celtics compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member club of the league's Eastern Conference Atlantic Division.

Founded in 1946 and one of eight NBA teams (out of 23 total teams) to survive the league's first decade, the team is owned by Boston Basketball Partners LLC.

The Celtics play their home games at the TD Garden, which they share with the National Hockey League (NHL)'s Boston Bruins.

The franchise's 17 championships are the most of any NBA franchise, and account for 24.3 percent of all NBA championships since the league's founding in 1946.

As a percentage of championships won, the Celtics are the most successful franchise to date in the major four traditional North American professional sports leagues.

The Boston Bruins are a professional ice hockey team based in Boston, Massachusetts.

They are members of the Atlantic 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 is the oldest in the United States.

It is also an Original Six franchise, along with the Chicago Blackhawks, Detroit Red Wings, Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers and Toronto Maple Leafs.

The Bruins have won six Stanley Cup championships, tied for fourth most of all-time with the Blackhawks and tied second-most of any American NHL team also with the Blackhawks (behind the Red Wings, who have 11).

Their home arena is the TD Garden, where they have played since 1995.

The Bruins began play in the NHL on December 1, 1924.

The first facility to host them was what was then known as the Boston Arena (today's Matthews Arena) — the world's oldest (built 1909–10) indoor ice hockey facility still in use for the sport at any level of competition — and following the Bruins' departure from the Boston Arena, the team played its home games at the Boston Garden for 67 seasons, beginning in 1928 and concluding in 1995.

Boston, the capital city of the U.S. state of Massachusetts and largest city in the New England region of the northeastern United States, is home to several major league sports teams, including the Red Sox (baseball), the Celtics (basketball) and the Bruins (ice hockey).

The New England Patriots (American football) and the New England Revolution (soccer) play at Gillette Stadium in nearby Foxborough, Massachusetts.

Several Boston-area colleges and universities are also active in college athletics.

The New England Patriots are a professional American football team based in the Greater Boston region.

The Patriots compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's American Football Conference (AFC) East division.

The team plays its home games at Gillette Stadium in the town of Foxborough, Massachusetts, which is located southwest of downtown Boston and northeast of downtown Providence, Rhode Island.

The Patriots are also headquartered at Gillette Stadium.