Of the many seemingly unbreakable hexes in the world of sports, the Curse of the Bambino has been up near the top of the heap for quite some time. If any team in pro sports has ever seemed to have voodoo working against them, it would be the Boston Red Sox. You don't need to be a diehard baseball fan to realize that 1918 is a really long time ago, and for a team not to have won a single championship from then till now is quite a stretch of bad breaks. Those who do pay some attention to baseball no doubt recall the 1986 World Series that the Red Sox seemed to be on the verge of winning. Who can forget that slow groundball down the first baseline that evaded the reach of Bill Buckner's glove and trickled into the outfield, giving the New York Mets new life that carrying them to triumph in the Series? Growing up a Mets fans, that play happens to be amongst my most cherished sports memories. I'm pretty sure the orange and blue muscle tank top I was wearing sent positive vibes through the universe that allowed the Amazing Mets to prevail. Red Sox fans understandably view the circumstances in a much darker light. As for people who are afraid to walk under ladders, breaking mirrors, or the paths of black cats, they saw Mookie Wilson's Seeing Eye ground ball as additional evidence that the Curse of the Bambino lived on.
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