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DO YOU HATE MUSICALS? Die-hard Red Sox fans do - for historic reasons. Sports history buffs know that 1919 Red Sox owner Harry Frazee sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees in order to fund the Broadway musical No, No, Nanette; legend has it that this sale is what sparked the "Curse of the Bambino," a 86-year period wherein Beantown's ball team failed to win the World Series.
Richard Dresser, whose Johnny Baseball runs at American Repertory Theater May 14-June 27, is a self-described "pathological" Red Sox fan who fondly recalls the days when attending...