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Red Sox could win a World Series title on the celebrated green grass at Fenway Park.
• When the Red Sox last won a World Series at home, Babe Ruth, Carl Mays and Harry Hooper were the stars in September 1918, a season cut short by World War I. Ahead of the St. Louis Cardinals 3-2, this year's Red Sox have two chances to reward their faithful.
• "It would be awesome," said John Lackey, who starts Game 6 on Wednesday night against Cardinals rookie Michael Wacha.
• Fenway was just a kid the last time the Red Sox took the title there, a modern 6-year-old ballpark. A crowd of 15,238 watched the Red Sox defeat the Chicago Cubs 2-1 to win the Series in six games.
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Today in History
The Associated Press
• Today is Wednesday, Oct. 30, the 303rd day of 2013. There are 62 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On Oct. 30, 1938, the radio play "The War of the Worlds," starring Orson Welles, aired on CBS. (The live drama, which employed fake breaking news reports, panicked some listeners who thought the portrayal of a Martian invasion was real.)
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• On this date:
• In 1735, the second president of the United States, John Adams, was born in Braintree, Mass.
• In 1885, poet Ezra Pound was born in Hailey, Idaho.
• In 1893, the U.S. Senate gave final congressional approval to repealing the Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890.
• In 1912, Vice President James S. Sherman, running for a second term of office with President William Howard Taft, died six days before Election Day. (Sherman was replaced with Nicholas Murray Butler, but Taft, the Republican candidate, ended up losing in an Electoral College landslide to Democrat Woodrow Wilson.)
• In 1921, the silent film classic "The Sheik," starring Rudolph Valentino, premiered in Los Angeles.
• In 1944, the Martha Graham ballet "Appalachian Spring," with music by Aaron Copland, premiered at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., with Graham in (Continued on page 41)
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