Red Sox Fans Exult at End of World Series 'Curse'
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Thousands of bleary-eyed Red Sox fans  showed up for work on Thursday still stunned and giddy after a  night of celebrating something many thought impossible: a World  Series victory for baseball's perennial also-rans that put an  end to an 86-year-old curse.
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WAIT a minute! Just because the Boston Red Sox beat the New York Yankees does not mean the &quot;Curse of the Bambino&quot; has ended.
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BOSTON - The fans wanted it. For that matter the entire baseball world wanted it. Now it&#39;s here, and nobody is champing at the bit more than the Boston Red Sox.
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If there is a guardian angel for Boston Red Sox fans (and there's some debate about that), the work load is drastically lighter today. The Red Sox, New England's beloved baseball heartbreakers, have won their first World Series title since 1918, and it's understandable if their stunned followers, accustomed to failure and despair, aren't sure what to do next.
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Locals questioned their guts because they were on a baseball field instead of a battlefield. Fans soured on them after their demands for more money held up a World Series game. And when the 1918 Boston Red Sox finally won the title, the feat was greeted with little more than mild enthusiasm.
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Description: NPR&#39;s Scott Simon reflects on Boston&#39;s World Series victory -- the first for the Red Sox since 1918. He downplays the only recently fabled Curse of the Bambino while reviewing some Fenway history.
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ST. LOUIS  - The Boston Red Sox won their first  World Series title since 1918, and buried a curse, with a 3-0  victory over the St. Louis Cardinals Wednesday.
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ST. LOUIS  - Boston Red Sox fans awoke on  Wednesday with their impossible dream on the brink of becoming  a reality.
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It just never stops around here. The Red Sox finally win their first World Series in 86 years. People are buying Red Sox dog bones for their furry friends and every other Christmas card in the mail includes a photo of the commissioner's trophy (you'll be able to borrow the thing for your son's bar mitzvah by June). We have ...
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BOSTON - Unbelievable as it may seem, not everyone in New England is thrilled about the Red Sox winning the World Series. Retailers of everything from T-shirts to ice cream and cookies had been making money
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NEW YORK - The curse is dead. Last night&#39;s 3-0 win by the Boston Red Sox ended 85 years of World Series futility. Fans celebrated into the early morning, as they no longer have to endure chants of &quot;1918&quot; (the year of their last World Series win).
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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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New England had not had this much fun since the Boston Tea Party. The Red Sox finally won the World Series for the first time since 1918 after stunning the despised Yankees in the playoffs.
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Com. &quot;Call me crazy,&quot; says Pembroke resident Kelly Wigmore. Not so fast, because the avid Red Sox fan is hardly alone after last week&#39;s World Series win that broke the 86-year &quot;curse of the Bambino.
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The Red Sox put the Curse of the Bambino to rest with their World Series win this week. And now a Pittsfield couple is memorializing the death of The Curse, all in the spirit of Halloween.
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Hundreds of Red Sox fans jammed Boston's streets on Monday to celebrate their team's second World Series victory in four years, some hurling rocks at police in riot gear, smashing windows and lighting fires.
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Unbelievable as it may seem, not everyone in New England is thrilled about the Red Sox winning the World Series. Retailers of everything from T-shirts to ice cream and cookies had been making money off the team&#39;s championship drought for years.