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What was the curse of the Boston Red Sox?
When the Red Sox traded Babe Ruth to the Yankees for almost 86 years the Red Sox didn't win a world series until 2004.
How many years did it take Boston Red Sox to reverse the curse?
Babe Ruth was sold to the Yankees in 1920. The Red Sox won their first World Series after selling him in 2004. That is 84 years.
What is the Red Sox curse?
The Curse of the Bambino was a superstition cited, often jokingly, as a reason for the failure of the Boston Red Sox baseball team to win the World Series in the 86-year period from 1918 until 2004. While some fans took the curse seriously, most used the expression in a tongue-in-cheek manner The curse was said to have begun after the Red Sox sold Babe Ruth, sometimes called The Bambino, to the New York Yankees in the off-season of 1919-1920. Before that year, the Boston Red Sox had been one of the most successful professional baseball franchises, winning the first World Series in 1903 and amassing five World Series titles. After the sale, the once-lackluster Yankees became one of the most successful franchises in North American professional sports. 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. The curse had been such a part of Boston culture that when a road sign on the city's much-used Storrow Drive was vandalized from "Reverse Curve" to "Reverse The Curse", officials left it in place until after the Red Sox won the Series in a 4-0 sweep.
How long did the Curse of the Bambino last for the Cubs?
The curse had nothing to do with the Chicago Cubs. The Curse of the Bambino evolved around the Boston Red Sox, and it lasted 84 seasons (1920-2003).
What started the rivalry between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees?
Curse of the bambino. Babe Ruth Trade
