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The story of Ruth鈥檚 trade from the Red Sox to the Yankees on Dec. 26, 1919, is well known, the irony being that Red Sox owner Harry Frazee, a theater impressario, was impelled to make the deal to finance his New York-based production of 鈥淣o, No, Nanette.鈥� Boston鈥檚 decline thereafter has come to be known as 鈥淭he Curse of the Bambino鈥� as the team鈥檚 World Series drought lengthened until finally broken after 86 years in 2004. But how bad was the Red Sox demise while Ruth was still playing? Pretty awful. For the next 13 years they didn鈥檛 finish above .500, were cellar dwellers most of those years, and in 1932 trailed the champion Yankees by an amazing 64 games in the standings.