VICTORY EDITION

VOLUME 266 NUMBER 120 SUNSATIONAL

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GLOBE STAFF PHOTO/STAN GROSSFELD The Red Sox stormed the Busch Stadium field to celebrate their commanding march to the world championship.The Sox did not trail for a single inning of the four-game sweep of the Cardinals. Red Sox complete sweep, win first Series since 1918 WORLD By Dan Shaughnessy WORLDWORLD GLOBE STAFF ST. LOUIS — They did it for the old folks in SERIESSERIESSERIES Presque Isle, Maine, and White River Junction, Vt. They did it for the baby boomers in North Conway, SPECIAL SECTION N.H., and Groton, Mass. They did it for the kids in Central Falls, R.I., and Putnam, Conn. While church bells rang in small New England Police response towns and horns honked on the crowded streets of Officers block access to Lans- the Hub, the 2004 Red Sox last night won the downe Street, the scene of last 100th , completing a four-game sweep week’s confrontation, and police of the St. Louis Cardinals with a 3-0 victory on the equipped with riot gear and strength of seven innings of three- pitching by smoke canisters push crowds . Playing 1,042 miles from away from and out of Park, the Sox won it all for the first time in 86 long Kenmore Square. B3. and frustrating seasons. The next phase ‘‘This is like an alternate reality,’’ said Sox owner John W. Henry, soaked in champagne (Mount The city is at last about to learn the Pleasant, 2003 Brut Imperial). ‘‘All of our fans wait- answer to the question of ‘‘What ed their entire lives for this.’’ will Boston do if the Red Sox ever True. New England and a sprawling Nation of win the World Series?’’ C4. Sox fans can finally exhale. The Red Sox are World WORLD SERIES, Page C12

Features Classified Comics F10-11 Classified H Crossword F10 Autos H Victory transforms Deaths B5-7 Education H Editorials A20 Help Wanted H Horoscope F10 Professional H GLOBE STAFF PHOTO/EVAN RICHMAN a region’s identity Lottery B2 Real Estate H Red Sox fans celebrated last night’s World Series victory at the Who’s on First? bar near Fenway Park. Movies H6-7 Apartments H By Thomas Farragher TV/Radio F8-9 Comm’l/Ind’l H GLOBE STAFF © Globe Newspaper Co. Market Basket H New England danced under an eclipse- Yachts/Boats C18 For multitudes, years of torment end in bliss Legal Notices H reddened moon early today, toasting a By Raja Mishra In South Boston, fireworks lit the sky Provincetown to the Berkshires, Connect- championship whose elusiveness since World War GLOBE STAFF as revelers spilled into the streets amid a icut to Maine, and all the far-flung out- I had become a regional badge of futility, worn by For breaking news, updated Globe stories, and more, visit: At last. cacophony of car horns. In , posts of New England. four generations. As first baseman Doug Mientkiewicz grown men fell to their knees. As the victorious images from St. Lou- ‘‘I’ve seen man walk on the moon. I’ve seen the Boston.com snagged the final out, citizens of Red Sox The streets around Fenway Park is beamed onto televisions, crackled on space shuttle break up in the sky. I’ve seen great Nation convulsed. They wept. They ex- clogged with young people; intimate cele- radios, and lit up computer screens, fans tragedy,’’ said David Kruh of Reading, who wrote haled. They exalted. Smiles blossomed. brations unfolded in pubs, on triple-deck- here, in a million different ways, the stage musical ‘‘The ,’’ 4444 2 Hugging erupted. Curses were dismissed, er porches, in bodegas, and in thousands screamed aloud: at last. about the travails of the Red Sox. ‘‘And now, we longing was satisfied, and memories of living rooms in this victory-starved re- ‘‘I’ve cheered them on for 80 years, for have this moment of unadulterated joy. . . . This made. gion. 90 years. But I’m telling you, in all my experience will never happen again.’’ Euphoria, joy, or madness — call it It was collective catharsis, millions riv- years, this team was the most exciting And New England, where baseball is king, will what you will. After 86 years, Red Sox Na- eted by nine men playing a boy’s game: one,’’ said Leonard Iannarone, 93, of Win- never be the same. 0 947725 4 tion got deliverance. from the South End to the North End, JOY, Page B3 LEGACY, Page B3

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