1918

 "All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don't know except it looked good."

The Boston Red Sox last won the World Series in 1918. Two years later, they sold the contract of a promising young pitcher and batter on their roster - Babe Ruth - to the New York Yankees. After joining the Yankees, he out-homered the entire Red Sox team in 10 of the following 12 seasons. In the years since, the Yankees won 26 World Series titles - while the Red Sox have remained winless. The coincidence is unmistakable, and baseball fans worldwide have come to believe in the "Curse of the Bambino." [Link]

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