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,
waiting to be used to celebrate the end of 68 years
of frustrating futility in the World Series. The
Red Sox had lost 3 World Series contests (in 1946,
'67, and '75) all in game 7.
For the Red Sox in 1986, one strike away from victory
was one strike too many as the Mets rallied, taking
game 6 and game 7. It took another 18 years for
a bottle of champagne to finally be opened, as the
Red Sox of 2004 finally won it all. 
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