Boston it is the second largest sports city in America, for five of the most important sports in the USA: football, basketball, baseball, soccer and hockey. It is the most successful city of the 2000s: i RED SOX are the most successful baseball team of the 21st century, i NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS they are in football, and two other titles came from basketball with the CELTICS and from hockey with i BRUINS. This explains the nickname CITY OF CHAMPIONS thanks to the 17 NBA championships won by the Boston Celtics and the six Super Bowl titles won by the New England Patriots. AND in 2026 Boston will be one of the cities to host the World Football Championships in the USA!
BASEBALL – RED SOX
The legendary “Red Socks” founded in 1901 boast memorable moments, incredible stories and even, “mysterious curses”. I Red Sox – dialectal contraction of the word Red Socks from the color of the socks worn by the team players – they play their season opener in early April: With a home game on Patriots Day concluding just in time to see the Boston Marathon participants race past Fenway Park on their route to the finish line. The team is at home at Fenway Parkthe oldest stadium in Stars and Stripes baseball built in 1912 with its famous Green Monster – the large green wall over 11 meters high on the left side of the pitch. The seats stand out with the color red. Stadium tours are daily, year-round (with the exception of Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Eve) hourly, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Few know that Fenway Park is home to a grow field in an area that was once an empty rooftop. Today the farmers of Green City Growers grow and harvest vegetables in this space of over 460,000 m2. called Fenway Farms. The field can grow everything: from asparagus to courgettes, used strictly in all the stadium’s refreshment points.
BASKET – BOSTON CELTICS
The Celtics are much more than just a team: they are a true sporting legend, a glory of the city, the pride of Bostonians, who became famous in Italy thanks to Dan Peterson’s famous commentary in the 1980s. They were founded in 1946 by John Brown, who at the time also managed the Boston Garden with its special checkerboard parquet walked on by the green-white players until the 1995-96 move to the new TD Garden. The parquet floor is now a symbol of Boston’s success as are the championship banners hanging there. Famous are the signs with the writing “Boston Pride” raised by the fans during the epic matches with the bitter rivals of the Los Angeles Lakers. The 17 NBA titles make it the most successful franchise in NBA history and the only one, together with the New York Knicks, to be registered in the league from the day of its foundation without having changed city. Story of a tradition: above all Red Auerbach, the great coach led the Celtics to win 8 consecutive championships between 1958/59 and 1965/66, a feat never achieved by any American professional team. Bostonians even dedicated a statue to him in Faneuil Hall. One of the greatest players in the history of the league, and probably the most beloved of all time was the legendary number 33, Larry Birdprotagonist of endless challenges with Magic Johnson and member of that extraordinary and perhaps unrepeatable team that was the first Dream Team USA at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992. The basketball season at TD Garden in Boston begins in October each year. To celebrate the place where basketball was born, we go to Springfield (1.30hr drive from Boston), to visit the Basketball Hall of Fame.
HOCKEY – BRUINS
Rich is the history of this first American team to join the NHL in 1924 and six-time Stanley Cup champion. They compete in the National Hockey League as a member of the Atlantic Division in the Eastern Conference. “Bruins” is the name for the brown bears used in classic folktales. The team colors are brown and gold and resemble the Bruins’ color scheme from 1924 when brown and yellow were the colors of original owner Charles F. . Adams’. With the 25th anniversary of the franchise, the Bruins introduce the “spoked B” which refers to the nickname of Boston, The Hub. They play ice hockey in the same stadium as the Celtics, the TD Garden. The ice hockey season begins in October and ends in April.
FOOTBALL – NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS
In 1959 the team was born “Boston Patriots” created by Boston businessman Billy Sullivan. The Patriots joined the NFL during the 1970 AFL/NFL merger, changing their name to the New England Patriots and moving to Gillette Stadium a Foxborough, a sud di Boston. The Patriots have the most Super Bowl appearances (11) in history, having won the title six times. The Patriots’ successes are all quite recent: the first came in 2002 against the St Louis Rams and the last in 2019 against the Los Angeles Rams. In between four more titles all with coach Bill Belichick on the bench. Among the many champions to mention is certainly the quarterback Tom Bradywho won all 6 Super Bowls won by the Boston franchise. The Patriots can boast 17 former players present for their services in the development of the team, in their Hall of Fame created in 1991.
CALCIO – NEW ENGLAND REVOLUTION
The football club, which competes in Major League Soccer, is one of 29 teams in MLS, having participated in the league since its inaugural season in 1996. The Revolution, who won the 2007 US Open Cup and the 2008 Superliga, they are based in Foxborough and play their home games at Gillette Stadiumthe same as American football. Fan groups, i Midnight Riders hey The Rebellioninclude “The Fort”, There is also a mascot, a fox named Slyde. The “Revs” are owned by Robert Kraft, who also owns the New England Patriots (NFL) football team.
BOSTON MARATHON
The most significant celebration of Patriots’ Day – which honors those who paved the way to freedom from British rule nearly 250 years ago – is the Boston Marathonheld every Patriots’ Day – third Monday of April – since April 19, 1897. It is the oldest marathon in the world and has been managed since the first edition by the Boston Athletic Association (Baa). Open to professional and amateur runners, who have run official marathons in the six months preceding the race and we have obtained minimum times established for each age category. Until 1971 the US federation did not allow women to register for long-distance running races, but in 1971 the race was also opened to women. The Boston Marathon was the first to admit athletes with physical disabilities. It is a particularly tough marathon, because it has continuous ups and downs and does not comply with the requirements imposed by the
World Athletics Federation, which provide for a maximum difference in altitude between the starting and finishing points of 1 meter per km, therefore 42 metres, while the route has 136 metres. The finish line of the marathon is on Boylston Street, where the two monuments also stand erected in memory of the three victims of the 2013 terrorist attack.
