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The Curse Is Over Finally by Mike Dodd (USA Today)
Posted by Ed and Lois
The Red Sox win the World Series. The baseball season is over. (For everyone who watched The West Wing)
ST. LOUIS — The Boston Red Sox, the symbol of heartbreak and human foible to sports fans for nearly a century, are world champions. No more curses. No more moral victories. No more next year.
The Red Sox completed an unprecedented 11-day turnaround Wednesday night when they defeated the St. Louis Cardinals 3-0 to win their first World Series since 1918. (Related item: Game report)
The victory was as stunning as their inexplicable failures over the last 86 years — coming back from a three-games-to-none deficit against the New York Yankees in the American League Championship Series and sweeping the National League champion Cardinals, who won 105 games in the regular season.
While many sports franchises have endured years of losing, no team has tantalized its faithful by coming so close and continually falling short.
The heartbreaks spawned the Curse of the Bambino, said to have started after Red Sox owner Harry Frazee sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees after the 1919 season. The legend soared in popularity after the Sox came within one strike of winning the 1986 Series, only to collapse as a ground ball went between first baseman Bill Buckner’s legs.
This year, however, it’s all heroes, many with their own tales of redemption