Make a Date with Baseball's Greats: Visit the National Baseball Hall of Fame

The sign beside this weathered baseball reads: "Ball thrown by Boston pitcher Bill Dinneen to strike out Honus Wagner, ending the 1903 World Series, and making Boston the first modern World Champions." A program from that first World Series is displayed above the ball.

Boston topped the league four more times in the next 15 years, but it took 86 years, from 1918 until 2004, for New England's baseball team to win another World Series.