'Red Sox Showdown for the Ages' Set to Crown Greatest Red Sox Team of All Time

Former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling made a bold statement in the moments following the team's 2004 World Series championship season. With his Boston teammates surrounding him in the visitor's clubhouse at Busch Stadium in St. Louis, the heroic right-hander raised a bottle of champagne with a toast boldly proclaiming the '04 Sox the "greatest Red Sox team ever!" But, was Schilling right? Over the course of more than a century, there have been plenty of tremendous Red Sox (and Boston Americans) teams. Seven World Series championships. Twelve pennants. Twenty playoff appearances. While an 86-year drought between 1918 and 2004...