The Fenway Park Scoreboard proclaims the Boston Red Sox as the World Champions for 2013.  And indeed it was the first time since 1918 that the Red Sox had won the championship at home as they clipped the Cardinals of St. Louis in six games.

Until 2004, Red Sox fans endured 86 heartbreaking years without a World Series title.  The Sox beat the Cardinals in five games to end the drought.

The devotion of Red Sox fans was beautifully captured in the movie Fever Pitch about a baseball obsessed Sox fan who finally finds another love.  The movie, starring Jimmy Fallon and Drew Barrymore, was being filmed during the 2004 baseball season but the script's ending had to be rewritten before its release in 2005 because of Boston's improbable ascent to the World Series title.  Below is a montage of memorable moments from the movie.

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The music being played in the clip is Neil Diamond's hit Sweet Caroline , which has has become one of many traditions at Fenway Park.  The song that Neil Diamond wrote in one hour in a Memphis  hotel room and recorded the next day is played in the middle of the eighth inning of every game and sung by a boisterous Fenway Park crowd.

For the first Red Sox home game played after the Boston Marathon bombings, Neil Diamond hopped on a plane in Los Angeles bound for Boston and performed the song live before a sold out crowd and an equally surprised national TV audience - a wonderful tribute to a hurting city.

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