Red Sox celebration parade scheduled for Saturday morning

[Crewleader]

November 01, 2013 12:00 AM

BOSTON — Boston will toast the World Series champion Red Sox with a duck boat parade on Saturday, Mayor Thomas Menino and team officials announced Thursday, giving fans an opportunity to revel in the improbable success of a team that finished in last place just one season ago.

"What a year," Menino said at City Hall in unveiling plans for the parade. "From worst to first."

Players will climb aboard the amphibious vehicles inside Fenway Park at 10 a.m. Saturday for the so-called rolling rally, officials said. The parade route, the same as the one used in 2004 when the Red Sox won their first World Series title in 86 years, will travel down Boylston Street, where in April two bombs killed 3 people and injured more than 260 others at the finish line of the Boston Marathon.

The duck boats will go on to the Charles River for a time, which they did in 2004 but not in 2007 when the Red Sox also won the World Series.

The New England Patriots, Boston Celtics and Boston Bruins have also celebrated titles with duck boat parades in recent years.

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