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Summary: ugh
Review: 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.
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Summary: It's Outdated Now
Review: As of October 21, 2004 this book is officially outdated and no longer relevant. Whatever one thought of the concept of the "Curse" previously (and there was precious little substance or merit to it, anyway, as readers of "Red Sox Century" already know) it died when the Sox defeated the Yankees in Game Seven at Yankee Stadium. RIP....or something like that.
The Yankees now have the greatest collapse in history on their record. Not the Red Sox. The "Curse" doesn't live here anymore, if it ever did at all.
Maybe Dan can next write "The Curse of Tino Martinez" or "The Curse of Vince Doria" or something but this subject, at least in Red Sox Nation, is now officially dead.
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Summary: COWBOY UP!!!
Review: I find it both ironic and funny that all the negative reviews about this book are from Red Saux fans. I give a lot of credit to that guy from NE who actually admits that this book is a good read. I've read this book 85 times and counting. I'm just looking forward to the revised edition that includes game 7 of the ALCS, but...oh yeah...there's no curse.
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Summary: Find another gravy train, Danny Boy
Review: One of the best things about the Sox winning the World Series is putting an end to this guy's garbage.
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Summary: Now irrelevant
Review: 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!
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Summary: Thank goodness
Review: 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.
Did Mr. Shaughnessy disappear in a puff of smoke when the final out the World Series was recorded?
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Summary: Curse is a misnomer
Review: 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. The true reason the Red Sox failed to win a World Series title in 86 years was due to ethnic racism, pure and simple. The Red Sox had Jackie Robinson tryout in Fenway Park and commented that Robinson was a great hitter, but it was "too bad that he was colored". They also watched Willie Mays in a tryout and passed up the opportunity to sign him. They refused to have a young Henry Aaron tryout for the team when they found out he was colored. That is how the old Boston Braves were able to get Aaron to play for them and the fabled cross town rivals were not. Racism was the true curse of the Boston Red Sox. Boston has had a serious problem with racial hatred in the neighborhoods of Dorchester and Roxbury for decades and refusing to acknowledge this problem leads the naive to assume that there could be any relationship to the trade of Babe Ruth to the NY Yankees and the 86 year drought of a World Series championship. Pure, utter nonsense. Racism was their curse.
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Summary: Ignorance In Red Sox Nation
Review: The reviewer who bills himself as "Red Sox Nation" doesn't know what he is talking about. While he is quick to claim that the "curse" is over (due to the recent Red Sox's comeback from a 3 games to none series win over the New York Yankees), he fails to realize that the "curse of the Bambino" refers to the Red Sox failure TO WIN THE WORLD SERIES since 1918. THAT is the REAL curse. In defeating the Yankees, all the Red Sox have done is win the American League pennant--a feat that they have already accomplished 3 previous times since 1918. I'm sorry, my friend, but the "curse" still lives on and will continue to live on until the Red Sox win the brass ring.
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Summary: Please go away, Dan.
Review: 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. It's upsetting that people from around the world think actual Red Sox fans are like this. We're not, and outpouring of happiness in this city since our Foulke flipped to Meintkiewicz proves this. Shut up, Dan. No one wants to hear your tired rhetoric.
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Summary: The Stupidest Book Ever Written About Baseball.
Review: To set the record straight, no one in New England--except for the CHB--believes in any curse. The fact that people stand a decent chance of living 80+ years and never see the Red Sox win a World Series is a tad more distressing. Having grown up in California and not being a native New Englander, I can vouch for that. Blame poor ownership, bad management, bad luck, and--as much as I hate to say it--the fact that the New York Yankees have put together some legitimately great teams over the years. Don't blame a curse.Strictly looking at wins and losses, being a Boston Red Sox fan really isn't so bad. A disproportionate number of great players have worn the Red Sox uniform (Ted Williams, Carl Yastrzemski, Carlton Fisk, etc.) and Boston tends to win more games than they lose and be in the playoff hunt every year. I'd rather follow the Red Sox than the L.A. Clippers! That being said, the CHB has perpetrated a lie concerning a "curse" that has allegedly befallen the franchise. Using H.L. Mencken's motto "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public", he made a lot of cash with this book (I once saw him getting out of his shiny, black Mercedes-Benz near Newbury Street one afternoon a couple of years ago). To add insult to injury, every idiot sports announcer who's not from New England constantly--and aggravatingly--mentions "the curse of the bambino" each time the Red Sox either make the playoffs or are close to making the playoffs. Since he has a vested interest in the Red Sox losing every year, I'm sure the CHB was chuckling with mirth after the Yankees won Game 7 of the 2003 ALCS. Shaughnessy is a medium talent at best--and a bitter jerk at worst--in his books and columns in the "Boston Globe". The CHB is basically the imbecile at the bar who trashes everyone's favorite teams--and goes home lonely wondering why no one "understands" him. "The Curse of the Bambino" won't explain anything of significance about baseball to the layperson, except to give them an understanding of why the CHB is so universally loathed in Boston.
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