The "Curse of the Bambino" affected what Sport team?

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. This misfortune began after the Red Sox sold star player Babe Ruth, sometimes called The Bambino, to the New York Yankees in the off-season of 1919–1920. Before that point, the Red Sox had been one of the most successful professional baseball franchises, winning the first World Series and amassing five World Series titles. After the sale they went without a title for decades, even while the Red Sox won four American League championships from 1946 to 1986, as the previously lackluster Yankees became one of the most successful franchises in North American professional sports. The curse became a focal point of the Yankees–Red Sox rivalry over the years.

Talk of the curse as an ongoing phenomenon ended in 2004, when the Red Sox came back from a 0–3 best-of-seven deficit to beat the Yankees in the 2004 American League Championship Series and then went on to sweep the St. Louis Cardinals to win the 2004 World Series.

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Corey Taylor

The curse could have been broken much earlier if manager Tom Yawkey hadn't been a racist insisting on and all-white team. So in the late 40's and 50's, the Red Sox were not so much CURSED by Babe Ruth as New York teams were BLESSED with Jackie Robinson.

JohnnyRoulette

Keith Richard Mears, You do realize there are professional baseball leagues in Japan, South Korea, Australia, Taiwan, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Mexico, Panama, Canada, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Colombia, China, Philippines, Israel, Italy, Netherlands & Sweden. So, the idea that this is some kind of exclusively American sport is erroneous.

Karin Johansson

JohnnyRoulette, the curse started 1918.

David Stuckey

Keith Richard Mears, Steady on, old chap. If you really want to do something creative about it, how about applying for the job of Chair of the American Cricket Council? It's so disorganized only California and Florida have active leagues, and Florida is the only one recognised by the rest of the world. Shame too, as the Yanks and Canadians played the world's first international match, if memory serves.

vonlora

amazing, the photo had nothing to do with the answer

Char

Corey Taylor, exactly I agree with all you said ..

Char

32 years before I was born I'm not into sports so why should I know this.. I hit majority and still had to make a lucky choice there too. I'm 69 now so many younger will totally miss it as not even the uniform style was right with the times Not so aggravated by a sports question as I am about the wagging tongues that take away clues, pride, and prejudice about those who miss a question..

Robert Oldenburg

The Cubs have the goat curse.

Howard Groopman

I wish the "curse" had never been broken.

JohnnyRoulette

Nonsense question. There was no curse. It’s was created by a Boston sportswriter in the 1980’s

Chris Braid

Thanks majority. Not a clue. No interest in the minor sport either!

Nicholas Miernicki

Thomas Hughes, "...a Yankee hater!" This shows that you are of sound mind and have good taste.

Nicholas Miernicki

Keith Richard Mears, What an outrage!!

Pierre Poirier

Keith Richard Mears, and the numerous cricket questions ? It is not a sport that interest a lot of countries. This is trivia. There will be questions in domains you know little about. I know little about doga and cars. I do not complain when there are questions on these subjects .