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Summary: A history of failure?
Review: The Curse of the Bambino is a compendium of failure - hardly suitable fare for a real fan of the Boston Red Sox. Sox fans all know what happened in 1946, 1967, 1986, etc. The author castigates Red Sox Nation for being Calvinist in its pessimism, yet he contributes to this pessimism by publishing a chronolgy of Red Sox disasters. In essence, he's creating the aura of which he is critical. Buy "100 years of Red Sox History" on DVD. A real history of the Red Sox without the manufactured nonsense.
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Summary: Waste of time
Review: 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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Summary: Jurassic Carl Was Here
Review: This is a terrible book full of nonsense written by a man who doesn't like the Red Sox. He acheived his goal by creating a false curse that not a soul in Boston had ever heard of or discussed until it was poured down our throats by CHB and people not from Boston. It's stupid, it's childish and it's something that will get you a serious beat down if ever mentioned to a true Red Sox fan. Shaughnessy, Get a Life!
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Summary: 4 Star ? Hardly
Review: Is there anything more evil in the world than a cynic who isn't funny? Thanks to Dan's book I cannot watch a national telecast of the Boston Red Sox without some mention of "The Curse of the Bambino" before the third inning. The odd thing is the "curse" is rarely if ever credited to Shaughnessy as if in some way the "curse" has been stalking this organization since the twenties. To people outside Boston you'd think the "curse" was as much a part of the city's history as tea parties and Albert DeSalvo. Sox fans can be fatalistic bunch but rarely do they find themselves on the floor after a late inning loss shaking their fist against the specter of a fat Baltimore slugger, although finding them on the floor is not uncommon. Credit Dan Shaughnessy to milk that pessimism for a few bucks. If one is truly interested in Sox history, purchase Red Sox Century by Glenn Stout and Richard Johnson.
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Summary: Removing the bad reviews? How convenient.
Review: Have you ever went for a very long run, and afterward unfortunately manage to "catch" the smell of your testicles upon removing your boxers? Horrid, right? In keeping with the metaphor, "The Curse of the Bambino" is the literary equivalent of that rancid odor. A waste of the paper it is written-on, this "account" is written by a hackneyed columnist who attempts to exploit the naivete of the casual, ill-informed baseball fan. There are much better books out there on the Boston Red Sox, written with more eloquence and better intentions than the writer of this tripe. Simply put, there is no curse.
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Summary: Oversights, oversights, oversights
Review: How can a book claiming to outline the early history of the Boston Red Sox fail to mention the special, intimate relationship between Herman Ruth and Harry Frazee? Shaughnessy fails to even mention the great love between these two people - one a young man raised by priests, the other a broadway financier. The author completely ruins his credibility by not telling the complete tale, whatever his motivations. I strongly suspect latent homosexuality is to blame. Boo!
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Summary: Poor book
Review: Poorly written book. It's rambling and hard to follow at times, you have to kind of guess what the author is saying at times in order to makes heads or tails of what he is supposedly trying to say. The reason for this is the basis of this book is at best fabricated. Nowhere does it articulate the premise of the book. In essense, the book is a bunc of loose and unrelated ideas trying to support and clearly flawed theory. If you're buying this as a gift, I suggest "Red Sox Century" instead of this.
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Summary: Same of song from Shaughnessy
Review: Dan has made a career of the curse, ignoring a whole wealth of history, baseball knowledge, statistics, and the views of Red Sox fans everywhere. It is an interesting question as to why the Red Sox have not won since 1918, especially given they are in a big market, have always spent the money, and came tantalizingly close on many occasions. Dan's answer - its the curse. Well, for out of towners or people who will settle for the most simplistic and wrong explanation over a more nuanced and powerful story, you will love this book. For all of us who have followed this team, we know better and wish Dan would stop perpetuating a myth that dumbs down a great baseball town.
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Summary: There is no curse Dan!
Review: Shaughnessy at his worst. And that's saying a lot.
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Summary: Stupendulous, Johnson!
Review: I cannot commence my expression of effervescent serendipity upon discovery of this oeuvre of virtuosity and verisimilitude. The meritorious originator of such a cynosure is surely a reservoir of percipience. For shame, those that would asperse the undubitable magnum opus of this maven. Dan Shaughnessy and his wondrous, overlooked achievement is a lagnappe; a gift from the gods! Disregard Warren, Nemerov, Brodsky or Pinsky, for the emergence of a wordsmith in the class of Virgil manifests once in an era. Shaughnessy is that wordsmith. His time is now, and we are all equally blessed to bear witness to it.
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