Curse of the Bambino Strikes Again!

Good Lord! Is the new house jinxed? Should our team have known better than to trifle with the moody ghost of one George Herman Ruth? Must we now wait 86 years for redemption? Oh, Baseball Gods, what have we done?!?

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Mark Lamster is a writer on the arts and culture. He is Associate American Editor of The Architectural Review, and is currently at work on his third book, a biography of the late architect Philip Johnson. Follow: @marklamster.
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