Series to savor: Top highlights from 2004 ALCS
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The 2004 American League Championship Series created enough memories to last a lifetime. Here are some of the moments and men whose exploits in this historic series won&#39;t soon be forgotten.
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They have one more game to make their case. Are the 2004 Red Sox a happy-go-lucky (then suddenly unlucky) pack of frauds who failed to show up for the biggest series of their lives? Or are they full of the stuff that makes a team special and historic?
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As years go, 2004 will forever rate up there with the best of them. It will always be known as the Year the Boston Fans Got Even. For most of my life (with the exception
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ST. LOUIS -- The Red Sox were the bold-faced headline on the 2004 season, the town crier in Kenmore Square. The long-suffering franchise fought its way through a cursed history to deliver a World Series triumph
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A minute that used to recur like a comet, once 86 years or so and missed by generations of Red Sox fans, is now beginning to feel like a birthright. For the second time in four seasons, the Red Sox are World Series champions.
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Yankees in the ALCS. That was not to be, and now with Curt Schilling taking. form to be a formidable No. 2 starter for the Red Sox in the playoffs.
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With a huge three-game series against the Yankees set to begin Friday in the Bronx, the Red Sox could hardly be blamed for viewing this week&#39;s three-game set
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Even the uninitiated know the significance of a series between the Red Sox and Yankees. They also understand the importance of keeping the rivalry in perspective, regardless of the enmity. Perhaps easier said than done before you experience it up close and personal, as Jason Varitek and Alex Rodriguez did the last time the teams met.
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Here it comes. You can feel the rumbling of anticipation now. Just two games into the American League playoffs, we already have a colossal collision coming into focus.
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As long as the Yankees and Red Sox play, no matter how long they play tonight at Yankee Stadium, we will remember Game 4 and Game 5 of this American League Championship Series, two games that stand with anything that has ever happened between these two
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The American League playoff teams are set. All that remains to be determined are the first-round matchups.
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The Red Sox [stats, schedule] and New York Yankees [stats, schedule] have been on a collision course since the moment Aaron Boone&#39;s game-winning home run in Game 7 of the 2003 American
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How much sweeter for the Nation to contemplate only the second sweep in postseason history by the Red Sox, the first since perhaps the most beloved Sox team in the last 30 years, the Sox of Pudge and Yaz and Looie and Lynn and Evans swept the A's in the 1975 American League Championship Series, than to ponder the implications ...
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Boston Red Sox fans cheer as their 2004 World Series Champion team returns to Fenway Park in Boston, Thursday, Oct. 28, 2004. The team returned home early Thursday after sweeping the St.
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The Red Sox&#39;s amazing run to the World Series championship will be captured in books, including the one in the works by Stephen King, and on film, featuring the new ending
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It is easy to look at the final game of a postseason series as the game that meant everything. But this particular series took a decisive turn two games before the end arrived Saturday.
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In hindsight, it would be easy to think of the Red Sox' second World Series title in four years this way: Dominant regular season, dominant postseason, now let's talk about how wicked awesome the Celtics aah. But that would be giving short shrift to the crucial role Beckett played in ensuring that...