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Seeing this new baseball field being constructed reminded me of my grandfather. He was a die hard Red Sox fan and cheered for them all through their losing years. He even had a baseball that was autographed by the famous Red Sox hitter, Ted Williams. My grandfather passed away before he got to see the Red Sox break the "Curse of the Bambino" and finally win a World Series. I am placing this geocache in his memory. For those of you who did not spend your childhood in Southeastern Massachusetts like I did and want to learn more about the Curse of the Bambino, here is some Wikipedia information:
The Curse of the Bambino was a superstitious sports curse evolving from the failure of Major League Baseball team Boston Red Sox to win the World Series in the 86-year period from 1918 to 2004. While some fans took the curse seriously, most used the expression in a tongue-in-cheek manner.
This misfortune began after the Red Sox sold star player Babe Ruth (sometimes nicknamed "The Bambino") for $125,000 to the New York Yankees after the 1919 season. Before that point, the Red Sox had been one of the most successful professional baseball franchises, winning the first World Series and amassing five of the first fifteen World Series titles. After the sale, they went without a title for nearly a century, as the previously lackluster Yankees became one of the most successful professional sports franchises in North America. The curse became a focal point of the Yankees–Red Sox rivalry over the years.
Talk of the curse as an ongoing phenomenon ended in 2004, when the Red Sox came back from a 0–3 deficit to beat the Yankees in the best-of-seven American League Championship Series (ALCS), and then swept the St. Louis Cardinals to win the World Series.
The curse had been such a part of Boston culture that when a "reverse curve" road sign on Longfellow Bridge over the city's busy Storrow Drive was graffitied to read "Reverse The Curse," officials left it in place until the Red Sox won the 2004 World Series. After the World Series that year, the road sign was edited to read "Reversed Curse" in celebration.
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P092TTK - Rude Recreation Center Parking Lot
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