Harry Frazee

Harry Frazee (1881-1929) was an entertainment entrepreneur. He was once the owner of the Boston Red Sox. In 1920, he sold Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees to finance a Broadway musical, No No, Nanette. This event is famed in Boston for having initiated the so-called "Curse of the Bambino", the third longest drought in World Series titles (1918-present) (the longest being that of the Chicago Cubs, (1908-present) and the second longest being that of the Chicago White Sox, (1917-present).