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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. [ 1 ]
The Red Sox, winners of five of the first 16 World Series, those played between 1903 and 1919, [d] would not win another pennant until 1946, or another World Series until 2004, a drought attributed in baseball superstition to Frazee's sale of Ruth and sometimes dubbed the "Curse of the Bambino". Conversely, the Yankees had not won the AL ...
The curse of the Bambino was a superstition evolving from the failure of the Boston Red Sox baseball team to win the World Series in the 86-year period from 1918 to 2004. While some fans took the curse seriously, most used the expression in a tongue-in-cheek manner.
Diehard Boston fans are all too familiar with the "Curse of the Bambino," an 86-year drought during which the Red Sox tried and failed to win the World Series between 1918 and 2004. The team came ...
Some years after the premiere, it was claimed that producer Harry Frazee, a former owner of the Boston Red Sox, financed No, No, Nanette by selling baseball superstar Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees, resulting in the "Curse of the Bambino", which, according to a popular superstition, kept the Red Sox from winning the World Series from 1918 ...
Selling Babe Ruth to the Yankees supposedly causing the Curse of the Bambino Musicals Harry Herbert Frazee (June 29, 1880 – June 4, 1929) was an American theatrical agent, producer , and director , and owner of Major League Baseball 's Boston Red Sox from 1916 to 1923.
@DavidWBrooks: The page Bambino is a disambiguation page. Going to the Bambino page will educate the reader that Bambino is Italian for child, it does not explain why this particular name was attached to Babe Ruth. GoingBatty 14:24, 9 November 2018 (UTC) But it explains what the word means, which is more than they had before.
Old Spanish (roman, romançe, romaz; [3] Spanish: español medieval), also known as Old Castilian or Medieval Spanish, refers to the varieties of Ibero-Romance spoken predominantly in Castile and environs during the Middle Ages. The earliest, longest, and most famous literary composition in Old Spanish is the Cantar de mio Cid (c. 1140–1207).