Red Sox Nation

This one is for the fans:

The Boston Red Sox faithful known at the Red Sox Nation has just set a record for the most consecutive sell outs. The streak, as the Yanks love to call it, has lasted 5 years and a total of 456 consecutive games. That is powerful.

During the streak a total of 16,336,192 fans rolled through the gates of their beloved Fenway Park. One of the oldest and most treasured grounds in all of baseball. That's not a bad taking at the gate for the owners either.

Wonder what is amounts to ?

The Red Sox finally won the World Series in 2004, a year I was living in the States, after 86 long and painful years. The failure to win the World series was blamed on the management for selling baseballs greatest ever, Babe Ruth, to the arch enemy of any Red Sox fan the NY Yankees. The Nation called it the " The Curse of the Great Bambino ". This is all deadly serious stuff, so if you ever in Boston mention some of this shit and it would be like telling a Bok die hard about the " Lions tour of 74 ".

One final note to remind us what real fans are, the first pitch at the 456th sell out game was thrown by one Dora Giglio who at 86 holds the oldest season ticket account dating back to 1935.

Sweet Jesus I have a few years yet in The Craven Stand.

Province...