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Article: Red Sox Nation starting to grow.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- October 24, 2004
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Byline: Eric Gilmore
The World Series is here and everyone's a Boston Red Sox fan, hoping for a wicked good victory in Game 1 over the St. Louis Cardinals at Fenway Pawwk.
All right, maybe not quite everyone.
There's a solid pocket of Cardinals faithful in the nation's heartland.
There are some bitter New York Yankees fans/Red Sox haters (Who's your daddy now? Just wondering.), seething over their team's collapse against Boston in the American League championship series.
There are some National League purists who would never support a team from the league that uses a designated hitter.
That's about it. Almost ...