Not Tasting the Champagne

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Not Tasting the Champagne
Center Field found this 4/9/2008 on www.seth.com [flag]
Not Tasting the Champagne The Boston Red Sox is one of the great franchises in baseball. They had tremendous success in the first 20 years of the 20th century but, quite literally, had not been able to 'pop the champagne' from 1918, the last time they won the World Series, until 2004. This bottle of champagne was in the Red Sox locker room in the sixth game of the 1986 World Series, ... [link]

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Billy Buckner's Big Day
Published 4/9/2008 by Texas Gal at Center Field
... For the not-so-faint of heart, there's also an article at the same website with photos of a bottle of champagne that was in the Red Sox locker room that fateful day of the sixth game of the 1986 World Series. I choose to believe it was Jim Rice who requested the champagne be "cranberry blush" flavored. Here's video of Buckner's introduction and first pitch - plus his appearance in the booth on NESN with Remy and Orsillo during the 6th inning. This video has the entire intro/first pitch plus the first few minutes of Buck in the booth - and the remaining ...

‘86 Sox Could’ve Had A Cran-tastic Championship
Published 4/11/2008 by Christmas Ape at SPORTSbyBROOKS
SETH.COM shows us the celebratory libation the Boston Red Sox had waiting for them in the locker room during the 1986 World Series, and it was cran-tastic. ...

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