Wride's reward?

AUBURN - It's so close but Charlie Wride knows better. The Boston Red Sox may be just two wins away from their first World Series title in 86 years but Wride isn't celebrating yet.

Wride, who is also the New York-Penn League's historian and a devoted employee of the Auburn Doubledays is a big fan of the Red Sox.

The Auburn native has rooted for the Old Towne Team for almost 40 years and has seen them blow leads and lose the Series to the St. Louis Cardinals in 1967, the Cincinnati Reds in 1975 and the worst of them all - the New York Mets in 1986.