The Curse of the Bambino, Dan Shaughnessy
The Curse of the Bambino, Dan Shaughnessy
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The Curse of the Bambino

Author: Dan Shaughnessy

Narrator: Ken Coleman

Abridged: 2 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 09/17/2008

Synopsis

The Boston Red Sox's loss to the New York Yankees in the final game of last year's playoffs has been called "the game of the century," evidence that the rivalry between the Red Sox and the Yankees is hotter than ever. In the wake of that defeat, author and Boston Globe sports columnist Dan Shaughnessy has updated his bewitching story of the curse that has lain over the Red Sox since they sold Babe Ruth to the hated Yankees in 1920. Here he sheds light on classic Sox debacles from Johnny Pesky's so- called hesitation throw, to the horrifying dribbler that slithered between Bill Buckner's legs, to last year's stunning extra-inning home run that kept the Sox without a World Championship for yet another year. Lively and filled with anecdotes, this is baseball folklore at its best.

About The Author

Dan Shaughnessy is a sports columnist for the Boston Globe. He is the author of numerous books on Boston’s rich sports history, including Ever Green: The Story of the Boston Celtics and One Strike Away.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Josiah

I was extremely hesitant as I undertook the task of reading a book about the Red Sox. I’ve always hated the Red Sox. I get nauseous thinking about 2004. I close my eyes when Red Sox World Series highlights come on TV. I was sleeping each of the 4 times they won the Series in my life, knowing that ha......more

Goodreads review by Don

This was a pretty good book, though outdated, about the history of the Boston Red Sox. The Sox have a history of not being able to finish what they started, (at least up until 2004), and this book explores their failures. Blaming the issues on the sale of Babe Ruth to the Yankees in 1919 by Harry Fra......more

Goodreads review by Joey

Shaughnessy is a Hall of Fame baseball writer. He is also a curmudgeon with a pen. The coiner of the "Olde Towne Team" phrase has made a healthy living off of schadenfreude. Since its initial publication in 1990, the Red Sox have broken "The Curse," and then some. A lot of people don't know about the......more

Goodreads review by David

A must read for even the most pedestrian of sports fan. Even though Shaughnesy's views are no obsolete and irrelevant, as the Sox have inexplicably managed to, and most surreptitiously so, win 3 series since this book was written, COTB details the dumb luck/self-sabotaging history of the Red Sox......more

Goodreads review by Matt

60 - 70% of this book is literally just play by play of games lost and bad deals throughout the years. The first three chapters were entertaining. After than it just gets incredibly repetitive. Seems like it would have been better as a few column article in the Boston Globe rather than a book.......more

Quotes

Shaughnessy emerges as something like a jockÆs Hawthorne, evoking the muse and writing of witchcraft, foiled heroism, and the scarlett letter B upon every Red Sox fanÆs breast. (Scott Booth, The National)

A wonderful book that performs magnificently on every levelùas history, as mythology, as drama, and as pure entertainment. (Doris Kearns Goodwin)

The quintessential New England horror story. Read it and weep. (Stephen King)

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