The Oh, Welcome to another episode of 1001 Heroes, Legends, histories, and mysteries.

This episode titled,

Those Amazing Urban Legends 2, is part of our legend series.

And we've had so many responses from Urban Legends 1

that we thought it might be fun to do another.

This is your host and storyteller John Hagadorn and these are our ten favorites for this episode

starting with the curse of the Bambino, an urban legend that all

baseball fans, especially Boston fans, know to be true. This from Wikipedia and curse of the Bambino.com where you can find all kinds of Babe Ruth memories.

The curse of the Bambino was a superstition.

We like to call an urban legend evolving from the failure of the Boston Red Sox baseball team to win the

world series in the 86 year period from 1918 to 2004. While some fans took the curse seriously, most used the expression in a tongue-in-cheek manner.

This misfortune began after the Red Sox sold Star Player Babe Ruth, sometimes called the Bambino to the New York Yankees in the off season of 1919-20.

Before that point, the Red Sox had been one of the most successful professional baseball franchises,

winning the first World Series and amassing five World Series titles.

After the sale, they went without a title for decades even while the Red Sox won five American League Championships from 1946 to 1986

as the previously lackluster Yankees became one of the most successful franchises in North American professional sports.

The curse became a focal point of the Yankees Red Sox rivalry over the years.

Boston just had to break that curse.

Being an Orioles fan, this was hard to watch because both teams

being in the same division

beat up on Baltimore almost every year as they competed for the

number one and number two spots in the A.L. East, and didn't leave much room for my Baltimore

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