"After a 2012 season in which Boston missed the playoffs, this year's team has been a boon for business," with Red Sox Nation grabbing up faux beards, booze at bars, bumper stickers, and baseball cards at businesses across the Cape. According to one shop owner, "if they go to the World Series, which they are going to," sales could go up another 10 to 20 percent. [Cape Cod Times]