When he hits 714 and 715, he will tie and then break the Bambino's total.
Altogether, the Bambino accounts for five of the 10 most expensive sports items ever sold.
That's right, he was the ace that helped break the "Curse of the Bambino" from the mound.
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Louis on the 2004 night when the Red Sox took the World Series to reverse the Bambino curse.
Those that stayed were treated to a spectacular performance from French star Kap Bambino at the Les Inrocks tent.
The Red Sox broke the Curse of the Bambino by winning two Word Series since Henry bought the team in 2002.
The Boston Red Sox broke the Curse of the Bambino in 2004, when the team won its first World Series since 1918.
The Bambino played for the Boston Red Sox as a pitcher and outfielder before going on to greater glory with the New York Yankees.
With their mother, the sisters are beneficiaries of an off-shore family trust known as Bambino Holdings, of which Mr. Ecclestone said he has no oversight.
For decades, the so-called "Curse of the Bambino" haunted Red Sox Nation and was immortalised in Boston Globe writer Dan Shaughnessy's book of the same name.
The "Bambino" in question was baseball legend Babe Ruth - sold by the Red Sox owners to their bitter rivals, the New York Yankees, in 1920.
By our reckoning, the five worst Red Sox teams Fenway Park ever hosted all played between 1925 and 1932, when the club was still licking its wounds from the Bambino sale.
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If the Boston Red Sox suffered through the Curse of the Bambino--an 86-year championship drought attributed to their sale of Babe Ruth to the Yankees--call the Mets' whammy the Curse of the Straw Man.
It just happened, and Kettmann--perhaps presciently, since he wrote this book long before this year's American League Championship Series--has a hunch that John Henry's Red Sox will break the 86-year-old Curse of the Bambino sooner rather than later.
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