Fenway Park - 'Curse of the Bambino' folklore

After the Boston Red Sox sold Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees in 1919, the team failed to win a World Series for 86 years (1918–2004). Local and national sports writers popularized the term "Curse of the Bambino" to explain the prolonged championship drought as a superstition attributing unexplained bad luck to the sale. The curse is a piece of sports folklore and is debated, not a scientific explanation for the team’s record.