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The Curse of the Bambino was a superstitious sports curse in Major League Baseball (MLB) derived from the 86-year championship drought of the Boston Red Sox between 1918 and 2004. The superstition was named after Babe Ruth, colloquially known as "The Bambino", who played for the Red Sox until he was sold to the New York Yankees in 1920.
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Dec 25, 2023 · Learn how the Boston Red Sox sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees in 1919 and suffered a long drought of World Series titles until 2004. Discover the origins, history and superstitions of the "Curse of the Bambino" and its possible end.
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- The Red Sox Endure A Title Drought After Babe Ruth's Sale
- A Strange Coincidence Occurs at A 2004 Red Sox Game
- The Red Sox Win A World Series Title in 2004
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For Boston baseball fans, the worst part of the “Curse of the Bambino” wasn’t just that the Red Sox didn’t win—it’s that they lost in the most excruciating ways possible. To say nothing of numerous regular-season collapses, the Red Sox reached Game 7 of the World Series four times in the decades after Ruth’s departure. Four times they lost. In 1946...
The curse appeared to be alive and well as 16-year-old Lee Gavin arrived at Fenway Park in a limousine on the last day of August 2004 to celebrate a friend’s birthday. Although surging, the Red Sox remained 4½ games behind the hated Yankees, who had again crushed Boston’s spirit a year earlier with an extra-inning, walk-off home run in Game 7 of th...
Even after his sale to the Yankees, Ruth continued to live in the Boston area. In 1922, he purchased a pastoral, 155-acre farm in the Boston suburb of Sudbury. Many thought the Babe wasn’t cut out to be a farmer. They were right. He sold “Home Plate Farm” in 1926, and decades later, Gavin grew up in the five-bedroom farmhouse and played baseball on...
Learn how the sale of Babe Ruth from the Boston Red Sox to the New York Yankees in 1919 sparked a legendary hex that lasted for 86 years. Discover how a teen's bloody encounter with a foul ball at Fenway Park in 2004 may have lifted the curse and led the Red Sox to their first World Series title in decades.
Jun 15, 2024 · Learn how the Red Sox sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees in 1919 and suffered a long championship drought for 86 years. Find out how the curse was finally lifted in 2004 with a historic comeback in the ALCS.
The Curse of the Bambino. After winning winning five of the first 15 World Series, the Red Sox committed the original sin of baseball by trading star pitcher Babe Ruth to the...
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Jan 7, 2022 · In 1919, the Boston Red Sox inexplicably sold their star pitcher and power hitter Babe Ruth, also known as the “Great Bambino,” to the New York Yankees, afte...
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The trade fueled Boston's subsequent 86-year championship drought and popularized the "Curse of the Bambino" superstition. In his 15 years with the Yankees, Ruth helped the team win seven American League (AL) pennants and four World Series championships.
