1918 World Series feature of baseball games and other sporting events. The winning pitcher of Game 1 was Babe Ruth, who pitched a shutout. The 1918 championship would be the last Red Sox win until . The drought of 86 years was often attributed to the Curse of the Bambino. The alleged curse came to be when Red Sox owner Harry Frazee traded the superbly talented but troublesome Babe Ruth (who was instrumental in their 1918 victory) to the New York Yankees for cash after the 1919 season. The Cubs would not win their next World Series until 2016. The Cubs, who last
The Curse of Yig "Weird Tales" magazine. It was published first in the November 1929 issue (volume 14, number 5) on pages 625-36. It was the first of three tales Lovecraft wrote for Bishop, the others being "The Mound" and "Medusa's Coil". The story has appeared in a number of horror anthologies, including: The Curse of Yig "The Curse of Yig" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft and Zealia Bishop in which Yig, "The Father of Serpents", is first introduced. In 1899, upon arriving in Oklahoma, a couple learn about local legends surrounding a "snake god" called Yig, which takes vengeance on