Babe Ruth

Could Babe Ruth predict his Homers?  This is my all time favorite Baseball story! The New York Yankees had won 107 games leading up to the 1932 World Series. This is how I heard the story: game 3, 5th inning with

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"Study the game, accept advice, keep fit, and above all, save your money!"...Babe Ruth

"Rule number one in my book reads: "Don't fight the umpires. It's bad business."...

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20. Walter Johnson-RHP

Sure he's second all time in wins, but he's fourth in losses. It's the old Cy Young debate, except Johnson's peripherals are better. Twelfth in Opp. BA is particularly notable because it appears to be a stat dominated by contemporary pitchers, and Johnson is far from that. 

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And the theory.  The trade of Babe Ruth is attributed to causing the Red Sox century of futility.  Could our acquiring A-ROD now be looked at in a similar light?  Have we purchased the reverse Red Sox curse? Will I be explaining to my Grand children how great the Bronx Bombers once were?............NAWWWWW  its still early, we'll be fine!!!! We're only,.........................................(gulp) five and a half back? Already?

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           After baseball legend,  Babe Ruth was sold to the New York Yankees in 1919, the Boston Red Sox never won another World Series. The Yankees won 26. Many believed it was a curse placed on the team by some almighty power since Red Sox owner Harry Frazee sold the “Bambino” to finance his Broadway ventures. It wasn’t the fact that the Red Sox would lose, but the way they would lose. Almost as if someone or something was toying with them.  

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I hung out with Babe Ruth last night. Sure, it was only a dream, but this was a such a mystical tale it just had to be real. I started crying like a baby when I awoke, because, well, it just had to be real.

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