Ted Williams Fell Victim To The Curse Of The Bambino
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Ted Williams played for the Boston Red Sox from 1939 until 1960. The “Curse of the Bambino” lasted from 1918 until 2004. If you do the math, that means Williams never won a World Series. He did, however, play in the 1946 World Series, although it’s highly questionable if he should have.
Five days before the World Series was set to start, Williams was hit in the arm with a pitch. His elbow “swelled up like a boiled egg” and he couldn’t swing a bat for four days. Somehow he played all seven games that followed, going five for 25, including a clunker of a game seven performance. He was definitely cursed! There’s another cursed athlete next, can you guess who it is?
