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Superstitions & Folk Belief

The Curse of the Bambino

by Dan Shaughnessy

A sportswriter's history of the Boston Red Sox's long championship drought after the sale of Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees. The book popularised the idea of the 'curse' and is a document of modern sporting superstition.

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