Yoon S. Byun

Features: Red Sox Nation

When every media outlet year-round has a Red Sox related article; when T-conductors are blaring into pa's inciting everyone to sing "Take me out to the ball game;" when every single bar in town has a crowd inside and out gazing at giant plasma TV's; when every other conversation you hear walking down the street is talking about last night's game; when monuments, buildings, automobiles, homes, skin, hair, babies, cats & dogs are all decorated with red & white, B's, and two little hanging socks, you know one thing: You're in Red Sox Nation.

These photographs taken in fall of 2007 is about the fervor of the Red Sox which has existed throughout the years whether they won or lost. Being a part of the nation has often been described as a religion.

In 2007 the Boston Red Sox went on to win their second world series in three years.

"I shaved [my hair] when we were down 3-1. Now here we are," says Mike Mooney of Malden who waited 2 days outside of Fenway Park in Boston, to purchase tickets to game 1 of the World Series. "I'm die hard baby, I'd do it all over again."
   
Red Sox Fans rush the streets outside of Fenway Park to find a television screen in an open window to watch Boston beat Cleveland to go to the Word Series for the second time in three years. The game was a decisive game 7 of the ALCS between the Boston Red Sox and the Cleveland Indians, where at one point Cleveland led 3 games to 1.
  
"It's a Boston thing. It kinda just takes over," says Northeastern student Rachel Linberger, 19, of Hatfield, PA about the Red Sox fan base, as she lies down, waiting to buy tickets to game 1 of the World Series.
     
  
Brittany Lutz, 10, of South Brunswick, NJ spent 4 1/2 hours driving with her family to Fenway Park in Boston to watch her dad's favorite baseball team, The Boston Red Sox, play in game 1 of the World Series against the Colorado Rockies.
   
Stacy Fournier, a student at Mass College of Pharmacy gets tangled up with a few Northeastern college students playing with caution tape while waiting in line outside of Fenway Park in Boston before game 1 of the World Series.
   
Three-month-old Shiloh, a Teacup Yorkie sports his new Red Sox jersey with owner Gina Kawas of Allston in tow.
     
  
An ESPN announcer talks before the start of the game between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees at Fenway park.
   
Fans stand for the national anthem before the start of the game between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees at Fenway park.
   
Rae Lunam, of South Boston takes a break from working at Stand 7 to watch the first part of a game between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox at Fenway park.
     
  
Takashi Ishizuka, originally of Kyoto, Japan, but working as a restaurant chef in Boston, waits outside of Fenway Park in Boston before game 1 of the World Series between the Boston Red Sox and Colorado Rockies. With the addition of two Japanese players, Daisuke Matsuzaka and Hideki Okajima, Japanese fans could be seen wearing patriotic colors, as well as some traveling from as far as Japan to see players from their home country.