The Boston Yankees. Is that an oxymoron or what? But it almost happened.
Babe Ruth was sold to the New York Yankees in December 1919. Within months, the Yankees almost moved to Boston to play in Fenway Park, and Babe Ruth came this close to coming back to Beantown. As a Boston Yankee. That's right, Red Sox fans. That team in New York with 26 world championships could have been Boston's.
Red Sox fans have long blamed former owner Harry Frazee for the loss of Ruth and the subsequent demise of the franchise, all wrapped up in a tidy package known as "the Curse of the Bambino." For more than eight decades Sox fans have rued the sale of Ruth to the Yankees, using the deal to explain how things have always gone wrong for the Red Sox and right for the Yankees. Frazee has become a malevolent figure like other local symbols of evil such as the Boston Strangler, Bucky "Bleeping" Dent, and Don Zimmer.
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