The Curse of the Bambino - Softcover
Synopsis
Any Red Sox fan or baseball buff will tell you: The Sox haven't won a World Series since 1918. Certainly they've come close more times than they wish to remember. Did the unorthodox sale of the greatest baseball player who ever lived cause the Red Sox to be cursed forever?With a wry sense of humor, Dan Shaughnessy traces the frustrating history of the Red Sox since Babe Ruth went to the Yankees. Here, he sheds light on some classic baseball conundrums -- from Johnny Pesky's so-called hesitation throw in the 1946 World Series, to the horrifying dribbler that slithered between Bill Buckner's legs in the 1986 series against the Mets, and the expulsion of Roger Clemens in the final game of the 1990 League Championship Series against the Oakland A's. Lively and filled with anecdotes, this is baseball folklore at its best.
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Review
Shaughnessy emerges as something like a jockÆs Hawthorne, evoking the muse and writing of witchcraft, foiled heroism, and the scarlett letter B upon every Red Sox fanÆs breast. (Scott Booth, The National)
A wonderful book that performs magnificently on every levelùas history, as mythology, as drama, and as pure entertainment. (Doris Kearns Goodwin) The quintessential New England horror story. Read it and weep. (Stephen King)Synopsis
Describes how the fateful selling of Babe Ruth to the hated New York Yankees in 1920 marked the beginning of an eighty-year streak of bad luck for the Red Sox, in a tenth annniversary edition of the acclaimed, anecdotal baseball history. Original.
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0140296336
- ISBN 13 9780140296334
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages240
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