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Harry Frazee

Harry Frazee was an entertainment entrepreneur. He was once the owner of the Boston Red Sox. In 1920, he sold Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees to finance a Broadway musical. This event is famed in Boston for having initiated the so-called "Curse of the Bambino", the second longest drought in World Series titles (1918-present) (the longest being that of the Chicago Cubs, (1908-present)).

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