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THE CURSE OF THE BAMBINO
By Dan Shaughnessy
Dutton, $18.95
Nonfiction
On Monday, January 5, 1920, the Harvard University football team, still celebrating its New Year's Day, 7-6, Rose Bowl Victory over Oregon, rolled eastward into Chicago on the California Limited. In Washington, in a ve to four decision rendered by Justice L.D. Brandeis, the Supreme Court upheld the right of Congress to de ne intoxicating liquors, sustaining the constitutionality of provisions in the Volstead Act. Elsewhere, the last of the U.S. troops in France made their way home across the Atlantic, and a New York state supreme court justice ruled that it was not immoral for women to smoke cigarettes.
There was one more bit of news on this day. Late in the afternoon, Red Sox owner Harry Frazee held a press conference and announced that slugger/pitcher Babe Ruth had been sold for cash only to the New York Yankees.
