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From the archives | April 11

Fans revel as Red Sox return as champions

First banner in 86 years is raised

By Dan Shaughnessy

 |  Globe Columnist  

  April 12, 2005

This was the day the Sox raised the World Series flag and dropped the curtain on Boston Baseball’s Bacchanalia a six-month festival triggered by the greatest comeback in sports history and the Hub’s first hardball championship since 1918.

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