Curses and tabloid headlines: Baseball series had it all
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The Boston Red Sox&#39;s history-making comeback to win the American League championship at least temporarily turned New York Yankee dominance on its head.
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Here lies the Curse of the Bambino, born Dec. 26, 1919, the day Red Sox owner Harry Frazee sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees, and died Oct. 27, 2004, the day a group of wild-haired, self-styled Idiots completed
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From sports-show pros to bloggers, baseball aficionados are chewing over possible Fall Classic outcomes.
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Detroit's defense of the American League pennant is all but over.
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ST. LOUIS - The Boston Red Sox - yes, the Boston Red Sox! - are World Series champions at long, long last. No more curse and no doubt about it.
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Josh Becket did a lot of nasty pitching and a little trash talking to help make sure the Boston Red Sox would survive to play another game.
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Matt Clement heard all about curses while playing for the Chicago Cubs, who have the longest title drought in baseball. So when Clement saw the Red Sox win the World Series this fall, it made him think about playing in Boston. "Being able to overcome something like that, that's something I want to be a part of: people who are all about that," he said Wednesday after finalizing a &#36;25.5 million, three-year deal with the World Series champions.
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Buckle up, folks. The 100th World Series is off to a, shall we say, perversely entertaining start.
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The playoffs this year are short on compelling stories for baseball buffs outside New York, especially those who love confrontations with jinxes, hexes and curses.
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In a city of Calvinism and a so-called curse, being a baseball fan means tragedy, then ecstasy, then....
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Remember when there was genuine concern about the Red Sox' lineup? Remember when folks were legitimately fretting that this team couldn't hit?
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ATLANTA - Perry Mason lost a case once. Mariano Rivera blows the occasional save during the postseason. Janet Jackson has a clothing malfunction every now and again.
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Second (AL East) wild card winner; def. Anaheim in ALDS; def. NY Yankees in ALCS; def. St. Louis in World Series. The curse is finally dead, as
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So many angles. So many sub-plots. So much intrigue for a game pitting two non-winning teams holding one-way tickets to irrelevance.
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ST. LOUIS  - The Boston Red Sox lifted the World  Series title and buried a curse Wednesday beating the St. Louis  Cardinals 3-0 to claim their first championship since 1918.
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Perhaps there will come a time when baseball shakes free of these vexing and occasionally damning performance-enhancement headlines. But not for now.
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The curse of the Bambino wasn't the only thing that was shattered during the Boston Red Sox's championship run.