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Curse of The Bambino

Some years after the premiere, it was claimed that producer Harry Frazee, a former owner of the Boston Red Sox, financed the show by selling baseball superstar Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees, resulting in the "Curse of the Bambino," which, according to a popular superstition, kept the Red Sox from winning the World Series from 1918 until 2004. In the 1990s, that story was partially debunked on the grounds that the sale of Ruth had occurred five years earlier. Leigh Montville discovered during research for his 2006 book, The Big Bam: The Life and Times of Babe Ruth, that No, No, Nanette had originated as a non-musical stage play called My Lady Friends, which opened on Broadway in December 1919. That play had, indeed, been financed by the Ruth sale to the Yankees.

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