Billy Goats, Magazine Covers and the Bambino - Why Sports Fans Believe in Curses and the Stories Behind the Most Famous of All Bad-Luck Sports Superstitions (Paperback)


Whether fans are just overly superstitious or need something to blame for losing teams, "curses" on sports teams have become a vital part of American folklore. This book looks at the mentality behind superstition and explores the origins of several sports-related curses, including the Curse of the Bambino, the Curse of the Billy Goat and the San Diego Sports Curse.Project Webster represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has been curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing, although as Project Webster continues to increase in scope and dimension, more licensed and public domain content is being added. We believe books such as this represent a new and exciting lexicon in the sharing of human knowledge.

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Whether fans are just overly superstitious or need something to blame for losing teams, "curses" on sports teams have become a vital part of American folklore. This book looks at the mentality behind superstition and explores the origins of several sports-related curses, including the Curse of the Bambino, the Curse of the Billy Goat and the San Diego Sports Curse.Project Webster represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has been curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing, although as Project Webster continues to increase in scope and dimension, more licensed and public domain content is being added. We believe books such as this represent a new and exciting lexicon in the sharing of human knowledge.

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Imprint

Webster's Digital Services

Country of origin

United States

Release date

March 2011

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First published

March 2011

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Dimensions

246 x 189 x 8mm (L x W x T)

Format

Paperback - Trade

Pages

142

ISBN-13

978-1-241-16939-8

Barcode

9781241169398

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LSN

1-241-16939-X



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