Red Sox & Baseball Math

Legend has it Yogi Berra said "Baseball is 90% mental. The other half is physical." If you love baseball, the way so many Red Sox fans do, both the sentiment and the math square inside the diamond ~ especially 'round Fenway Park.

To date the Red Sox have won 8 World Series titles, 13 American League Pennants, and 8 Eastern Division titles. Some say it's talent that gets a team to the World series but just as many say it's luck. The debate has sparked water-cooler conversations and trash talk since 1901 when the Boston Americans, as they had been called, became one of the original eight teams of the American League franchise. As an early power-house of the sport Boston won the inaugural World Series in 1903, beating the Pittsburgh Pirates in a best of nine series.