Red Sox snap 86-year drought
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St Louis, Missouri - Boston Red Sox players and their devoted fans have spent decades wondering what their emotions would be after the seemingly cursed club won a World Series title for the first time since 1918.
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BOSTON (Sports Network) - When the lights go on Saturday at  Fenway Park it will be exactly 18 years to the day the last  World Series game was played at the famed stadium.
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ST. LOUIS  - The Boston Red Sox lifted the World  Series title and buried a curse Wednesday beating the St. Louis  Cardinals 3-0 to claim their first championship since 1918.
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Mark Bellhorn cracked an eighth- inning, game-winning homer as the Boston Red Sox fended off the "Curse of the Bambino" and the St. Louis Cardinals 11-9 to get the 100th World Series off to a wild start Saturday.
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The Boston Red Sox are gearing up for a repeat of &quot;Morgan Magic,&quot; but repeating 1988 isn&#39;t that easy. The Red Sox, who were 10Â½ games behind the New York Yankees on Aug. 15, have chopped that to 4Â½ games.
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Giddiness. Paranoia. Arrogance. Caution.  All were on display on Wednesday in Boston as the supposedly  cursed Red Sox moved within one victory of a baseball  championship that has eluded them for 86 years.
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Millions of bleary-eyed New Englanders  on Thursday savored a feeling lost generations ago: the joy of  a Red Sox World Series victory that ended an 86-year drought  and, some say, lifted a legendary curse.
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The Boston Red Sox have won the American League Championship Series and are heading to the World Series for the first time since 1986.
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For the first time since 1918, the Red Sox were simply better than every other team they played.
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FOR the first time in 86 years, there was no last-minute home run and no fielding error to break the hearts of the Boston Red Sox fans.
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Matt Clement heard all about curses while playing for the Chicago Cubs, who have the longest title drought in baseball. So when Clement saw the Red Sox win the World Series this fall, it made him think about playing in Boston. "Being able to overcome something like that, that's something I want to be a part of: people who are all about that," he said Wednesday after finalizing a &#36;25.5 million, three-year deal with the World Series champions.
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Mark Bellhorn cracked an eighth- inning,  game-winning homer as the Boston Red Sox fended off the "Curse  of the Bambino" and the St. Louis Cardinals 11-9 to get the  100th World Series off to a wild start Saturday.
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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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LOS ANGELES - It has been 21 long years since the St. Louis Cardinals claimed its last World Series, the longest such drought in the old franchise&#39;s history.
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Matt Clement heard all about curses while playing for the Chicago Cubs, who have the longest title drought in baseball. So when Clement saw the Red Sox win the World Series this fall, it made him think about playing in Boston.
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The baseball Doug Mientkiewicz caught for the out that ended the Boston Red Sox 86-year championship drought is going back to the team &#151; for one year, anyway.
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Having waited 86 years for World Series glory, Bostonians found themselves swirling with elation, but also scratching their heads.