Baeball's Boston Red Sox went from 1918 until 2004 without winning a World Series. This drought was due, some thought, to the "Curse of the Bambino", allegedly due to the Red Sox trading Babe Ruth to their bitter rivals, the New York Yankees, in 1920.
The Red Sox were said to "reverse the curse" when they came back from a 0-3 deficit to defeat the Yankees in the play-offs to get to the World Series, where they swept the St. Louis Cardinals.
An enterprising Red Sox fan, a construction worker at the new Yankee Stadium, tried to start a curse of his own.
In the photo below, team officials watched last Sunday as construction workers removed a jersey, with star Red Sox player David Ortiz's name on it, from 2 feet of concrete in a service corridor of the stadium that's under construction. Two supervisors had earlier uncovered the jersey.
The Yankees plan to donate the jersey to charity, and may pursue a lawsuit against the construction worker.
2 comments:
I'm a little curious about that lawsuit. Unless they can show that something buried in two feet of bottom level basement concrete floor is a structural hazard, this is going to be a tough sell. The inconvenience and expense of digging it out were self-inflicted, as I'm pretty sure there's nothing about curses in American liability law.
It's interesting that they very wealthy New York Yankees team, which stands to get wealthier via enhanced revenue streams from their new ballpark, can find the time and inspiration (?) to consider a frivolous lawsuit against a construction worker.
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