Earlier this week, two Massachusetts men came into possession of a banner meant to hang from the side of Fenway Park after the Red Sox clinched the American League East—and they held it for ransom.
Although they drove a hard bargain, the guys eventually surrendered the banner without compensation and it went up at Fenway on Friday, the morning after the Sox clinched the division with a win over the Yankees in the Bronx.
The men—Louie and James—said they found it on the side of a highway in Somerville, about four miles north of Fenway, wrapped in a paper bag.