Word: bambino
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...watching one of the greatest players the game has ever produced. Like Ruth, Bonds has changed the sport. Before Ruth, the name of the game was "scientific" baseball, a singles strategy designed to move runners from station to station to create a run. With his mighty uppercut, the Bambino ended that style forever and made power primary to winning...
...through Bill Buckner’s legs during the 1986 World Series, the unlikely Bucky Dent lofting a lazy fly ball over the Green Monster in 1978, the late-inning collapse in Game Seven of the 1975 World Series—is well-known as the Curse of the Bambino...
...Boston-area bidder missing from the mix—Harvard. A Harvard-owned Sox would never leave Boston before the school leaves Harvard Yard. With 365 years of history behind it, Harvard would have the chance to return the team to its glory days before the Curse of the Bambino. The University should have considered acquiring the Sox; we would have looked forward to attending President Lawrence H. Summers’ office hours in the owner?...
...this the year? Is the Curse of the Bambino finally over? Will 1918 become merely a meaningless number from the past? Can the Sox finally emerge from the hated New York Yankees' shadow...
Everything seems possible for Boston this year with Pedro--even breaking the Curse of the Bambino, which has supposedly blocked the Red Sox from winning the Series ever since they sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees in 1919. The Sox and the Yankees play four games this week at Fenway Park. Pedro starts things off Monday. On Monday morning, dawn will break over New England, and the Red Sox Nation will wake up smiling. Pedro goes tonight...