Baseball: End of century-old hex in sight
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BOSTON - Mark Bellhorn cracked an eighth-inning, game-winning home run as the Boston Red Sox fended off the &quot;Curse of the Bambino&quot; and the St Louis Cardinals 11-9 to get the 100th World Series off to a wild start yesterday.
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Decades of derisive chants, combined with the Nation&#39;s obsession with the date, make it natural to believe 1918 was the high-water mark for the Red Sox team that won five of the first 15 World Series.
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Baseball fans wanting to take their minds off a playoff not involving the Yankees can still find an October classic in the sky. The last total lunar eclipse in North America until March 2007
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Break up the Red Sox. A similar cry could be heard from beaten rivals when the Yankees dominated the World Series half a century ago. Now that the Olde Towne Team has won its second October Classic in four years, how many of last night's champagne-spattered champions will be back next spring?
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Rick Ankiel walked off the mound after throwing a scoreless inning and was met with a rousing reception of high-fives and slaps on the back.    After more than three years away, the St...
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In 1946 and 1967, the St. Louis Cardinals brought bitter endings to otherwise-glorious seasons for the Boston Red Sox. The 2004 Sox, already famous for bringing down their arch-rival
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Frederick Mosteller is a lifelong Red Sox fan. This is impressive on its face, particularly considering that his life began in 1916 and that he has survived almost nine decades with no memory of his team&#39;s last World Series victory.
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The move must be official. The tricolored Montreal Expos caps, so Gallic, so quaint, are collectors' items now.
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com. As Boston Red Sox first basemen Doug Mientkiewicz squeezed the ball in his glove for the final out of the 2004 World Series, you could almost hear a collective
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MONTREAL (CP) - The Expos may be history, but their demise has heated up the market for team memorabilia. Vintage 1970s and 1980s shirts are already sold out, but everything from caps, beer glasses and key-chains to dolls of mascot Youppi!
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The Boston Red Sox now can work on ending all those references to 1918. After sweeping the first round of the playoffs against Anaheim and staging the greatest comeback in baseball&#39;s
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Like the &quot;Curse of the Bambino,&quot; baseball's unwritten rules are still a part of the game.
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ST. LOUIS - The baseball franchise famous for âwhat if?â questions and âwhat now?â musings turned an 86-year tradition of tearful endings on its ear Wednesday night.
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The bat Babe Ruth used to hit the  first home run in Yankee Stadium and help usher in 80 years of  New York Yankee dominance over his former team, the Boston Red  Sox, is going on the auction block.
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Baseball&#39;s Next Big Thing stands 6-foot-1 and weighs 190 pounds, human dimensions for a sport that used to be more human than most.
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NEW YORK -- It seems so long ago now. Forever, possibly. With the Red Sox full of hope and just a notch below the Yankees in the American League East, the ancient rivals crowded into Fenway Park for a five-game series last month that turned from a beacon to a slaughter. That, in so many ways, effectively ended the Red ...
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New York, NY (Sports Network) - A bat once used by legendary baseball player Babe Ruth sold for $1.26 million at an auction on Thursday, marking the third- highest price ever paid for a piece of sports memorabilia.