Curse of the Bambino

"- a neat tagline and title used by the Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy, when he wrote a book about the home team's extensive and eloquent failures to nail down another world championship after they last did it, in 1918, and stuck needles into the club's owner, Harry Frazee, for his decision, a year later, to sell Babe Ruth, then a star pitcher for the Bostons, to the Yankees because, it was said, he needed cash as a backer of a Broadway musical."

 

From "Legends of the Fens"

An Article by Roger Angell from The New Yorker of September 24, 2001

 

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