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The Boston Red Sox, the symbol of heartbreak and human foible to sports fans for nearly a century, are world champions. No more curses. No more moral Boston Red Sox St. Louis Cardinals Tickets Fenway Park victories. No more next year. The Red Sox completed an unprecedented 11-day turnaround Wednesday night when they defeated the St. Louis Cardinals 3-0 to win their first World Series Boston Red Sox St. Louis Cardinals Tickets Fenway Park since 1918.

The victory was as stunning as their inexplicable failures over the last 86 years coming back from a three-games-to-none deficit against the New York Yankees in the American League Championship Series and sweeping the National League champion Cardinals, who won 105 games in the Boston Red Sox St. Louis Cardinals Tickets Fenway Park regular season. "We did it, man. We're the champs," said Red Sox outfielder Manny Ramirez, who was voted Most Valuable Player of the Series.

Boston, the third consecutive wild-card team to claim baseball's championship, became the first team to win eight consecutive playoff games in a single Boston Red Sox St. Louis Cardinals Tickets Fenway Park postseason and never trailed even for an inning in winning four in a row against the Cardinals. "We didn't want Boston Red Sox St. Louis Cardinals Tickets Fenway Park to let them back in it. We knew what happened to us," Red Sox manager Terry Francona said.

Nearly 5,000 Red Sox fans, who made most of the noise in Busch Stadium the last three innings, stood around the Boston dugout, cheering and Boston Red Sox St. Louis Cardinals Tickets Fenway Park chanting "Thank you Red Sox" for more than 40 minutes after the game. "No more having to go to Yankee Stadium and having to listen to '1918.' Finally," said Boston pitcher Derek Lowe, who threw seven shutout innings to record Boston Red Sox St. Louis Cardinals Tickets Fenway Park the biggest Red Sox victory in history.

St. Louis' collapse was just as shocking Boston Red Sox St. Louis Cardinals Tickets Fenway Park and complete as Boston's surge. The Cardinals managed just four hits Wednesday and a total of 13 in the final three games of the Series. Regulars Scott Rolen, Jim Edmonds and Reggie Sanders combined for just one hit the entire series Edmonds' bunt single against an Boston Red Sox St. Louis Cardinals Tickets Fenway Park over-shifted infield in his first at-bat in Game 1. "They outplayed us in every category," said Cardinals manager Tony La Russa. While many sports franchises have endured Boston Red Sox St. Louis Cardinals Tickets Fenway Park years of losing, no team has tantalized its faithful by coming so close and continually falling short.

The heartbreaks spawned the Curse of the Bambino, said to have started after Red Sox owner Harry Frazee sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees after the 1919 season. The legend soared in Boston Red Sox St. Louis Cardinals Tickets Fenway Park popularity after the Sox came within one strike of winning the 1986 Series, only to collapse as a ground ball went between Boston Red Sox St. Louis Cardinals Tickets Fenway Park first baseman Bill Buckner's legs. This year, however, it's all heroes, Boston Red Sox St. Louis Cardinals Tickets Fenway Park many with their own tales of redemption.

Lowe, bounced from the starting rotation for the first round of the playoffs after faltering in September, allowed just three hits in seven innings, retiring 13 Cardinals Boston Red Sox St. Louis Cardinals Tickets Fenway Park in a row after allowing a lead-off single in the first. Ramirez, who was nearly traded in the Boston Red Sox St. Louis Cardinals Tickets Fenway Park aborted Alex Rodriguez deal, chipped in only a single Wednesday but hit .412 in the Series and .350 in the 14 games of the playoffs. "God sent me back for a reason, and that's why I'm here," he said. "I proved a lot of people wrong." Asked afterwards how he wanted Boston Red Sox St. Louis Cardinals Tickets Fenway Park this team to be remembered, Francona had a simple answer. "As winners," he said.