Originally posted four years ago.
It has long been believed that the source of Boston’s sorrows is the legendary Curse of the Bambino, brought on by selling young Babe Ruth to the Yankees. This is untrue. Boston is actually cursed because the Red Sox took an unconscionably long time to get around to hiring any black players.
The Red Sox were the last baseball team to integrate; they did so in 1959.
NewMexiKen is old enough to remember this — and that the Washington NFL franchise was worse, not integrating until 1962. I’ve pretty much rooted against these teams ever since.