What do Mookie Wilson, Bill Bartman, Bill Buckner, Babe Ruth, Leon Durham, and goat have in common? If you weren't a baseball fanatic you would have said absolutely nothing. But ask any baseball fan like me and they would quickly ... the similar pain and struggle every year. The older of the two curses is the one supposedly placed by George Herman "Babe" Ruth on the Boston ball club. Hence, it is known as "The Curse of the Bambino". Long before Ruth started his reign as the Sultan of Swat for the Bronx Bombers, the New York Yankees, he was a pitcher of ... extraordinary talent for none other...

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... History). Wrigley Field was the site of the third game of the 1932 World Series in which the most famous play in baseball occurred. On October 1, 1932 at Wrigley Field, Babe Ruth pointed to the bleacher out in center field signifying that he would hit a home run right there and on the next pitch he delivered a shot that soared 440 feet and ... ...

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