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Four World Series defeats and two playoff losses are among the numerous misfortunes that have befallen the Boston Red Sox in the 70 years since their sale of Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees. "In story after story of near-triumph, the book should delight the team's most fanatically loyal followers, who will find it the verbal equivalent of a hair shirt," said PW .
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A wonderful book that performs magnificently on every level-as history, as drama, and as pure entertainment. -- Doris Kearns Goodwin

The best history of the snake--bitten Boston Red Sox ever penned. -- Larry King, USA Today

Product Details

  • Paperback: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) (October 3, 2000)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0140296336
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140296334
  • Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 5.8 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (57 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,480,015 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Waste of time, June 24, 2003
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If you want a good history of the Red Sox, please see Red Sox Century. It is a well written account of the entire history of the Red Sox. In the Curse of the Bambino, you will find a poorly written book that is neither humorous nor entertaining. The book perpetuates the myth of curse through mistruths and distortions of fact. If you truly are interested in the occult, I'm sure there are better selections to choose from than this book.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Nonsense. A complete waste of time., October 24, 2003
By P. Forget (Beverly, MA United States) - See all my reviews
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It's not only the lack of factual research that makes this book a wasted read...

The book is based on a fairy tale, that the author has presented as a reason for the Red Sox' misfortunes of the past 80+ years. It is completely illegitimate.

Red Sox fans have Dan Shaughnessy to thank for getting the "Bambino" curse into the national media spotlight. He has (unwittingly?) become the number one enemy & annoyance to the Red Sox and their fans. Until The Sox win the series, they will be taunted by moronic tv announcers that treat this as an noteworthy story, and nit wit opposing team fans that hold up pictures of Babe Ruth, to try and taunt the Red Sox.

There was a recent documentary on HBO on this subject, with the author trying to sell this book. After hearing him speak on the subject, I cannot even consider him a journalist.

Thanks Dan, looking forward to your biography on the Easter Bunny.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Nice annuity for Shaughnessy - but far from the real story, October 23, 2004
By Andy Orrock (Dallas, TX) - See all my reviews
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When I was a kid growing up in Boston in the 60s and 70s, the was never a mention of any 'Curse of the Bambino.' It was simply a case of the Red Sox not measuring up to the Yankees on many benchmarks...managers (Grady Little trying to match wits against Joe Torre being only the latest example), ownership (Tom Yawkey's plantation mentality meant the Sox were the last team to integrate), team chemistry (the famous '25 cabs for 25 guys' line was written to describe the Yastrzemski-era Sox) and player personnel (the 70s teams, for example, featured bombers to take advantage of Fenway who could neither run, field, bunt nor sacrifice as well as their chief rivals).

So, Dan Shaughnessy comes along post-1986 collapse with the trite, kitschy 'Curse of the Bambino' and suddenly every talking head in America has a little piece of pop psychology they can gear their stories around - witness, as an example, any recent Fox broadcast with shot after shot of Ruth 'ghosts' parading through the stands at Yankee Stadium. Great visuals, cue it up between batters, between pitches...but why load these 25 current players with that extra-heavy burden? 'Curse' has been a healthy annuity for Shaughnessy, no doubt (and I give him some credit for the that), but from his Globe byline pulpit and his repeated intonations about The Curse, he has unwittingly become somewhat his home team's worst enemy (witness the venom on these pages as a confirmation of that opinion).

What's different about 2003 and beyond is that the Henry/Lucchino/Epstein regime doesn't buy into this garbage. They see baseball for what it is - a game of statistics, percentages and chances. Get your numbers to the point where they are better than the competition, and more times than not your team is going to win. They were smart enough to recognize that the Yankees were winning because they were demonstrably better. They made a commitment to continuous improvement of the club using the Yankees as their benchmark. Owner John Henry is one of the nation's most successful commodities and stock traders; President Larry Lucchino has a track record of improving franchises; GM Theo Epstein is a Moneyball/Bill James disciple and baseball talent-spotting prodigy. I'm sorry that's not as mystical and compelling as Harry Frazee needing to finance 'No No Nanette' and Babe Ruth pushing a piano into a lake, but that's the truth. For the first time in 86 years, the Red Sox - across the organization - are outworking and outthinking their competitors. That's what we ought to be celebrating right now, not whether the Curse has been broken.
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1.0 out of 5 stars WOMBAT - Waste of money, brains and time
Don't bother - complete and utter rubbish. Too bad this cannot rate zero stars, it's not even worth that.
Published on March 19, 2007 by Jonny Jaha

4.0 out of 5 stars What Curse?
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... Read more
Published on June 7, 2006 by Eddie Spirito

4.0 out of 5 stars My goodness, are Red Sox fans bitter
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... Read more
Published on May 17, 2005 by M. Johnson

1.0 out of 5 stars Curse is a misnomer
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. Read more
Published on January 12, 2005 by Norman Eskind

1.0 out of 5 stars Thank goodness
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... Read more
Published on January 5, 2005 by KMG

4.0 out of 5 stars Lay off Dan
Wow! Seems like a lot of people, judged by these reviews, really don't like Dan Shaughnessy. I've been a Red Sox fan since 1960 and talk of "The Curse" was around long before this... Read more
Published on January 3, 2005 by EWG

1.0 out of 5 stars Please go away, Dan.
This book is written by a Red Sox "fan" who seems to hate all the players on the team. His colums are racist, pessimistic and negative. Read more
Published on December 4, 2004 by Karen Van Dyne

1.0 out of 5 stars ugh
240 pages of scratchy toilet paper. Shaughnessy is allowed to perpetuate a myth based not in fact, but his own feeble brain. Avoid this book at all costs.
Published on December 4, 2004 by R. Broman

1.0 out of 5 stars Find another gravy train, Danny Boy
One of the best things about the Sox winning the World Series is putting an end to this guy's garbage.
Published on November 5, 2004 by Darrin Howard

1.0 out of 5 stars Now irrelevant
Shaughnessy now has to find a different schtick; the Sox have won the World Series, and now we won't have to hear about made-up curses ever again. Go Sox!
Published on October 28, 2004 by richard winchell

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