Royal Rooters are established.

(Sept.) Founded by Michael “Nuf Ced” McGreevy and others, the group of baseball fans is formed initially to travel to Baltimore to cheer the Boston Braves (then Beaneaters) in a pennant-winning series against the Orioles and subsequently meets at McGreevey’s Third Base Saloon at 940 Columbus Avenue. The first nationally known sports fan club in the U.S., it becomes known for the rabid nature of its me members, adopts the song “Tessie,” a song from a Broadway musical at the time, as its theme song, and switches allegiance to the Boston Red Sox (then Americans) in 1901.* The club fades away after the last of the Red Sox World Series championship of the era in 1918.