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The Curse of the Bambino (Penguin Sports Library) | 
 enlarge | Author: Dan Shaughnessy
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Category: Book
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Rating:  58 reviews
Sales Rank: 2432210
Media: Paperback
Pages: 240
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.1 x 0.7
ISBN: 0140152628
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.357640974461
EAN: 9780140152623
Publication Date: April 1, 1991
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Product Description
In one frenzied season, a book title has become imprinted in the consciousness of American sports fans. The Curse of the Bambino, a phrase Dan Shaughnessy has coined, will live in infamy for Red Sox fans because it summs up 70 years of horror and heartbreak which all began when Babe Ruth was sold to the Yankees. With old-fashioned New England humor and the authority of a lifelong Red Sox fan, Dan Shaughnessy captures all the joys and heartbreaks that the curse of the Bambino has brought to Boston.
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 WOMBAT - Waste of money, brains and time March 20, 2007
Jonny Jaha (New Haven, CT)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Don't bother - complete and utter rubbish. Too bad this cannot rate zero stars, it's not even worth that.
 What Curse? June 7, 2006
Eddie Spirito (ANAHEIM, CA United States)
First of all, let me make one thing perfectly clear; there is no curse. Dan Shaughnessy is a writer who wrote about an imaginary curse that, incidently, was conjured up by Red Sox fans. Had he the foresight to envision readers actually presuming that he was depicting a real live curse, I'm certain that he would have included a disclaimer at the beginning of his book.
Why did the Red Sox enjoy success when Ruth was a member of that organization? It's very simple. Besides Ruth, the Red Sox also employed Hall of Fame pitcher Herb Pennock, and solid players such as Joe Dugan, Everett Scott, George Pipgras, Joe Bush and Sam Jones, among others. They were the team to beat at the time. When Harry Frazee sold Ruth to New York, it started a "house cleaning" that eventually sent the aforementioned players to the Yankees over the next two years. The Sox weren't cursed, they just became Yankees.
My goodness, are Red Sox fans bitter May 17, 2005
M. Johnson (Buffalo, NY)
0 out of 7 found this review helpful
For a good laugh, go back and read some of the older reviews of this book. "Shaughnessy's an idiot", "Go away loser", and "You're not a Red Sox fan" seem to be in every review. I read this book as a Yankees fan savoring every chapter of Red Sox misery. Shaughnessy tells the story of the Red Sox since 1918 in a breezy style and with a dry sense of humor. Of course he doesn't actually believe there is a "curse." He simply uses the Babe's sale to the Yankees as a backdrop to the real reasons why the team was unable to win a World Series. Ignorant ownership, bad personnel moves, and prickly relationships between players and players and management. Baseball fans should enjoy this book as the stories flow nicely. Red Sox Nation no doubt loves this book has more or less been rendered obsolete.
Curse is a misnomer January 13, 2005
Norman Eskind (Dallas, Texas, USA)
13 out of 15 found this review helpful
The idea that the Red Sox were cursed because Harry Frazee sold the Bambino to finance a show is a misnomer at best, and a sincere lack of honesty at worst. The true reason the Red Sox failed to win a World Series title in 86 years was due to ethnic racism, pure and simple. The Red Sox had Jackie Robinson tryout in Fenway Park and commented that Robinson was a great hitter, but it was "too bad that he was colored". They also watched Willie Mays in a tryout and passed up the opportunity to sign him. They refused to have a young Henry Aaron tryout for the team when they found out he was colored. That is how the old Boston Braves were able to sign Aaron in 1952 to play for them (albeit in Milwaukee) and the fabled cross town rivals were not. Racism was the true curse of the Boston Red Sox. Boston has had a serious problem with racial hatred in the neighborhoods of Dorchester and Roxbury for decades and refusing to acknowledge this problem leads the naive to assume that there could be any relationship to the trade of Babe Ruth to the NY Yankees and the 86 year drought of a World Series championship. Pure, utter nonsense. Racism was their curse.
Thank goodness January 6, 2005
KMG
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
Thank goodness this book is finally obsolete. It thrills me to know that this worm will no longer cash on the misery of the fans of the team he claims to root for.
Did Mr. Shaughnessy disappear in a puff of smoke when the final out the World Series was recorded?
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