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...probably a bad idea for Boston ground-keepers to paint the World Series logo on the Fenway Park grass on Thursday. That was tempting the Red Sox's 85-year-old Curse of the Bambino. Or of Buckner. And now Boone--as in Aaron--who smacked an 11th-inning homer to propel the hated-rival Yankees to the World Series. The only memento that Sox fans had to treasure was an editorial in the New York Post lamenting that the Yankees may have "acquired a curse of their own" after losing the seventh game. The editorial, which...
Moments later Boone belted a shot over the left field fence, ending a roller coaster game that left the Curse of the Bambino intact and much of the Harvard student body dejected and stunned...
...title, they will have to defeat a pair of curses. In 1919, the Red Sox decided to sell Babe Ruth, who turned out to be a pretty good ballplayer, to the New York Yankees for $125,000. They haven't won a title since, hence the Curse of the Bambino. Osaka has the Curse of Colonel Sanders. After the Tigers won their last championship in 1985, fans who resembled Tigers stars leaped one by one into the Dotonbori to resounding cheers. One problem: few Osakans were look-alikes for the team's 1.85 m, 95 kg American star Randy Bass...
VISUAL ART | Bring the Bambino Back to Boston
...after this year’s World Series, the Red Sox will be under-dogs no more. This year will mark the end of the curse; the Bambino, who has haunted Boston since the Sox traded him to the Yankees in 1920, will no longer haunt Fenway Park. This year, the Sox will...