2004 World Series in each of these four leagues. The Red Sox's win in the World Series ended the "Curse of the Bambino", which supposedly had afflicted the team ever since the Red Sox sold Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees in 1919. Pitcher Derek Lowe and other players said that the team would no longer hear "1918!" at Yankee Stadium ever again. Kevin Millar said to all Red Sox fans: "We wanted to do it so bad for the city of Boston. To win a World Series with this on our chests, it hasn't been done since 1918. So rip up
The Curse of the Wise Woman magical cursing and conjuring scenes Dunsany ever wrote and the vision of Tir-nan-Og, the book has the feel of the purest fantasy". Both critics were agreed in calling it an unusually autobiographical Dunsany novel. S. T. Joshi called "The Curse of the Wise Woman" Dunsany's most unified novel, while an anonymous Kirkus reviewer offered the contrary opinion that it fell between the two schools of mysticism and rustic realism. In 2014 Valancourt Books brought "The Curse of the Wise Woman" back into print with a new introduction by Mark Valentine. The Curse of the Wise Woman The Curse of the