2004 Major League Baseball season 2004 Major League Baseball season The 2004 Major League Baseball season ended when the Boston Red Sox defeated the St. Louis Cardinals in a four-game World Series sweep. This season was particularly notable since the Red Sox championship broke the 86-year-long popular myth known as the Curse of the Bambino. The Red Sox were also the first team in MLB history and the third team from a major North American professional sports league to ever come back from a 3–0 postseason series deficit, in the ALCS against the New York Yankees. The Montreal Expos would play their last season in
Bambino! Bambino! NTV broadcast the live-action TV drama from April 18, 2007 to June 27, 2007. It was broadcast in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico by TV Japan, an affiliate of NHK, from January to March 2008. "Bambino!" is written and illustrated by Tetsuji Sekiya. It was serialized in Shogakukan's seinen magazine (aimed at older men) "Big Comic Spirits". As of March 2009, Shogakukan has published 14 "bound volumes" of the manga between March 30, 2005 and December 26, 2008. We Can Make It! by Arashi is the series' opening theme song On March 30, 2007, wint released a