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Old 10-21-2004, 12:04 PM   #25
pjcoregon
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Originally Posted by iamrazor
how does this:
The Boston Red Sox won four World Series in the eight years Babe Ruth played on the team. They sold Ruth to the New York Yankees for $125,000 and a $300,000 loan because Boston's owner Harry Frazee needed the cash to invest in a new play on Broadway. As noted since the cash transaction, Boston's inability to win a single World Series Title has been attributed to "The Curse of the Bambino."

attribute to a curse anyway?
teams make bad trades all the time. if that constitutes a curse, every team would be cursed in some form or another...
well this isn't exactly like it was just a bad trade... they traded the ace of their pitching staff and the player that led the league in home runs that year (no they didn't trade two players... Babe Ruth did both).

Everyone is aware of the home runs... but as a pitcher he still holds the record for the longest complete game in the world series when a 20 year old Babe Ruth pitched a 14 inning (last 13 innings scoreless) 1 run game in leading them to victory in game 4 of the world series in 1916. In 2 world series for Boston, he had 3 victories and a streak of 29 and two thirds scoreless innings.

It is really more like if Boston traded a 22 year old Barry Bonds and a 22 year old Curt Schilling for some cash.

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Originally Posted by JGard
I was about to say the same thing. A sportswriter first introduced the term "curse" in the 70's. And Frazee didn't need to sell Ruth to pay for his play "No No Nanette" as he already had plenty of money. He sold Ruth and got some other players which he felt would help the Sox, it just didn't turn out that way.
He may of had the cash... but there were no players involved other than Ruth. Ruth was sold to the Yankees for $125,000 dollars and a $350,000 loan.
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