FREEPORT — L.L. Bean is painting its Bootmobile red in honor of the Red Sox’ World Series championship and providing custom-made red hunting boots to each member of the team and staff. The company will unveil the red Bootmobile during the duck boat parade Saturday to celebrate the Red Sox’ achievement. Chief Operating Officer Steve […]
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World Series: After win, time to build again
BOSTON (AP) — The Boston Red Sox didn’t just build a World Series champion in 2013. They also created a blueprint for the team’s next title. The Red Sox took advantage of last August’s salary purge to add middle-market free agents like Mike Napoli, Jonny Gomes, Shane Victorino and Koji Uehara — all key contributors […]
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Red Sox parade starts 10 a.m. Saturday at Fenway Park
BOSTON — Another Boston championship, another duck boat parade. Mayor Thomas Menino and team officials have announced plans for a celebration on Saturday of the Red Sox’ World Series championship. Players will climb aboard the amphibious duck boats at Fenway Park at 10 a.m. The so-called “rolling rally” will travel down Boylston Street and will […]
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Red Sox Nation celebrates World Series win
AUBURN — They cheered. They applauded. Lisa Pepin of Greene thanked God. “I’m so happy,” she said. “I’m fighting back tears.” When the Red Sox recorded their final out late Wednesday — earning their third World Series championship in 10 years — Pepin and the crowd at Legends Sports Bar and Grill in Auburn gathered […]
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99-year-old Lisbon fan hopes Red Sox will prove worthy of her faith
LISBON — Ginny Tardiff was just 4 in 1918, when the Red Sox won their last World Series at home in Boston. Ninety-five years later, she hopes to watch them win it again in their hometown Wednesday night, when the Sox play the St. Louis Cardinals at Fenway Park in the sixth — and possibly […]
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World Series: Boston wins eighth championship
BOSTON (AP) — There hasn’t been a party like this in New England for nearly a century. Turmoil to triumph. Worst to first. David Ortiz and the Boston Red Sox, baseball’s bearded wonders, capped their remarkable turnaround by beating the St. Louis Cardinals 6-1 in Game 6 on Wednesday night to win their third World […]
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World Series: Red Sox one game away after Game 5 win
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Jon Lester pitched the Boston Red Sox within a whisker of yet another World Series championship. Lester bested Adam Wainwright once again, journeyman David Ross hit a tiebreaking double in the seventh inning and the Red Sox downed the St. Louis Cardinals 3-1 Monday night to take a 3-2 Series edge. […]
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Red Sox pick off Cardinals
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Jonny Gomes got the Red Sox even in this wild World Series, thanks partly to Shane Victorino’s aching back. Inserted into the lineup about 75 minutes before gametime, Gomes hit a three-run homer off reliever Seth Maness in the sixth inning that led Boston to a 4-2 win over the St. […]
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The Hot Corner: The night the human element blew up
Mama, the Good Book and every marriage counselor on the planet have offered the advice since the beginning of time: Don’t go to bed angry. Sorry, but if you have committed any piece of your heart and soul to the Boston Red Sox, that was impossible Saturday night. Most of us haven’t felt this way […]
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Call trips up Red Sox
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Third baseman Will Middlebrooks tripped Allen Craig for a game-ending obstruction call on Jon Jay’s ninth-inning grounder, giving the St. Louis Cardinals a bizarre 5-4 win over the Boston Red Sox on Saturday night and a 2-1 World Series lead. Boston had tied the score with two runs in the eighth, […]